Sentence examples for opening leg from inspiring English sources

Team GB come in fourth, despite Spofforth's opening leg breaking the European record.

Michigan fell 10 seconds behind on the opening leg and was never a factor.

He put his teammates in second place on the opening leg of the 4x100-meter frelayyle relay.

Rockford's girls' four-mile relay also won, taking the lead on the opening leg and finishing in 20 30.57.

She already boasts the highest finish in the Derby, the opening leg of the Triple Crown, coming in ninth aboard Pants on Fire in 2011.

The comeback — the first time a team had advanced after losing by 2-0 in the opening leg — began almost immediately.

Inter advanced 2-0 on aggregate, having won the opening leg 1-0 in early February with a goal from Diego Milito.

Bradley Wiggins of Britain won the Giro d'Italia's opening leg, edging the world champion Cadel Evans and the American Brent Bookwalter by two seconds.

Franklin, who won the 100- and 200-meter backstroke golds, challenged the American record in the opening leg before Soni – the 200 breaststroke champion – widened it.

That was one reason track officials decreed that Pistorius run the opening leg — in his own lane — at last year's world championships.

America True won by 1 minute 32 seconds today, the same margin it built on the opening leg after the boats split at the start.