Sentence examples for olympic prowess from inspiring English sources

But in recent days, a tide of self-doubt and introspection about the human costs of China's Olympic prowess has arisen amid worries that the nation's draconian sports system is sometimes producing damaged goods.

• Ms. Vonn and Mr. Phelps, widely known for their Olympic prowess, are paired with the less familiar Ms. Hargrove, a track champion, and Ms. Cheney, who plays on the Boston Breakers soccer team and the United States Women's National Team and who won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Going back to Jamaica's Olympic prowess for a moment, we discuss sprinter Michael Johnson who proposed in a Channel 4 documentary a theory: that the various processes that took slaves from West Africa to the slave plantations in Jamaica naturally selected them and their descendants for athletic success.

Frankie Boyle was censured for jokes about the appearance and sexual prowess of the Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington on Mock the Week, a series he has now left.

Sadly, the cast will not be showcasing their athletic prowess, but rather their Olympic organising skills, or lack thereof, as they attempt to make the Games happen.

For all their soccer prowess, Brazil has never won Olympic gold in men's soccer, their previous bests being silvers in 1984 and 1988.

While the nation doesn't have the same quantity of athletes or cover the same range of events (Kenyans regularly win medals at 400m and 800m too), the list of Ethiopian world-record holders and Olympic champions is testament to its running prowess.

In the concert hall the piece has become Olympic fun and games, a showcase of orchestral prowess.

Karl Lagerfeld, known more for his design than sporting prowess, has even created his own Olympic T-shirts decorated with either a gilded torch or a silver medal with his personal ponytail-and-sunglasses silhouette.

Rhythmic gymnastics provides one of the most spectacular events of the Olympic programme and a true demonstration of athletic prowess.

In our briefing on the business of the Olympics ("Victors and spoils", July 21st), we said that Omega, a long-time Olympic sponsor, was "not trying to prove [its] prowess".