Sentence examples for long sprint from inspiring English sources
If Robin Williams were a runner, he'd do the marathon as one long sprint.
And we were off again in a blistering test, a long sprint that required power, stamina and faith.
"I think that's a big moment, because it's a long sprint, and I need to be explosive," Robben said of his initial burst.
I was pretty confident, when the ball came for the goal I knew it was a long sprint and I needed to be explosive and I was OK".
Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan broke clear of Alexandr Kolobnev of Russia in a long sprint to the finish to win the 96th Liege-Bastogne-Liege classic in Belgium.
The former Olympic track coach Mel Rosen says there is only one good place to run a long sprint from Lane 1: the moon.
Long sprints make their legs lean and explosive, tightly muscled and dense.
It was playing wide receiver for his wife, a quarterback on a flag football team in Jacksonville, Fla. "You have to do the cutting and the stopping and running long sprints," Garrard said.
Despite Johnson's unsurpassed speed and endurance in the long sprints, today's events will certainly lead to questions -- however undeserved -- about his brittleness during times of extreme speed.
In track circles, Johnson has faced some skepticism about his performances in big races, even though he possesses a combination of speed and power that is unprecedented in the long sprints.
Perhaps only Tommie Smith has ever possessed the kind of speed and endurance in the long sprints that Johnson does, and no one but Johnson has won the 200 and 400 at the same Olympics.
