Sentence examples for lesser athlete from inspiring English sources

Brownlee is obviously intelligent and if he had been a lesser athlete would almost certainly have qualified as a doctor.

He finds that "it upset some notion he had of order, of rightness" that Jacob, the older of his two sons, "was the smaller of the two, the lesser athlete, the lesser student".

Pressure of that order might have destroyed the careers of lesser athletes.

She would not be human if such harsh swings of appreciation did not leave wounds – wounds that could open in sight of the finish line in lesser athletes.

Some lesser athletes might feel it would be better just to win rather than fuel more attention with another startling performance.

Lesser athletes would be happy to be Russia-bound but Ennis-Hill has made it abundantly clear she will not travel  unless she is capable of going for gold.

There were some who felt that the honour ought to have gone to a lesser-known athlete or at least to one who better represented the Olympian amateur ideal.

Smart, who often recruits lesser-known athletes from the Caribbean and then molds them into the kind of athletes that Division I programs eventually race to acquire, has built a winning tradition at a school that does not even have its own track.

Five lesser-known athletes tested positive for a stimulant, but the details and penalties were still unclear as the I.A.A.F.

While Glasgow's Games, like London 2012 before them, have catapulted a number of lesser-known athletes to celebrity, the absence of several of the competing nations' biggest names meant that attention inevitably focused on the one true global megastar who made the trip to the athletes' village in Glasgow's East End.

"It does damage the lesser-known athletes because they don't have that recognition tied in.