Sentence examples for olympic standing from inspiring English sources
It meant a chance to entrench her solid but uncertain Olympic standing for the London Games.
That was unfortunate and maybe another indication of the subliminal asterisk attached to Davis's Olympic standing.
The United States team, which dominated the last world championships in 1998 and topped the Sydney Olympic standing with 33 medals, including 14 golds, wound up with 9 golds and 26 medals over all to finish behind Australia 13-4-6 13-4-6 13-4-610-6-4).
He says the International Committee of Sport for the Deaf (ICSD, also known as Deaflympics) was admitted to the IOC in 1955 as an International Federation with Olympic Standing.
A few weeks before coming to London for the Summer Games, Merritt injured his hamstring at a meet in Monaco, putting his Olympic standing in doubt.
Didn't want to relinquish his official Olympic standing, give up credential, move out of Team USA housing and miss closing ceremony.
The Soviet Union regularly topped the Olympic standings, and the Russian Federation has never been outside the top three at the summer Olympics.
A new Cold War!" The music turns triumphant with images of China's Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang standing in Tiananmen Square, raising the Olympic torch, "a symbol of Peace and Friendship!" But, first, one final act of treachery: in Paris, protesters attempt to wrest the Olympic torch from its official carrier, forcing guards to fend them off — a "long march" for a new era.
The low point came last summer when President Vladimir V. Putin witnessed Russia's Olympic gold medalists standing in awkward silence on the victory stands of Sydney as their national anthem rumbled out of the loudspeakers.
In reality Scott was and is actually "just" eight inches taller than the three-times Olympic Finn champion, standing at an intimidating 1.97 m (6ft 6ft).
Olympic champions are standing shoulder to shoulder with part-time athletes who take half an hour to huff and puff around a three-mile course to condemn a parish council that has decided to charge the hugely popular "parkrun" movement for use of its open space.
