Sentence examples for pinnacle event from inspiring English sources

WELLINGTON — Rugby's pinnacle event rolls around every four years, but for some players, what comes immediately afterward is just as precious as winning the Webb Ellis Cup.

Three of the America's Cup defence team have been banned from taking any further part in the sport's pinnacle event, which starts in California on Saturday.

"All My Children" and "One Life to Live" each average around 2.5 million viewers; compare that with soap opera's pinnacle event, the 1981 marriage of Luke and Laura on "General Hospital," which drew more than 30 million viewers.

Quite why the Olympics should want golf is another question, given the sport satisfies none of the usual criteria: this is not, in any sense a "pinnacle" event for golf; neither is golf a universal or even particularly widespread activity.

More than a year ahead of time, Paulina Ramirez Jacinta planned on a long organdy dress, live dance band and skyscraper cake for her 15th birthday party, the pinnacle event for a teenage girl in Mexico.

"If the Olympics are supposed to be the pinnacle event, then why aren't the pinnacle events leading up to it going to be recognised as the qualifying events?" laments Chas Guldemond, a professional rider widely thought to have a shot at Olympic gold and the co-founder of We Are Snowboarding, a group lobbying to align the interests of competitors and event organisers.

Multiday races -- in the style of Mr. Burnett's now defunct Eco-Challenge -- are the sport's pinnacle events, with teams racing hundreds of miles day and night, nonstop.

The Rumble has grown into one of the pinnacle events of the WWE calendar, and signals the start of the Road to WrestleMania where under normal circumstances the Rumble winner meets the WWE World Heavyweight champion in the main event.

BBC director of sport Barbara Slater said: "It's very exciting to cap our rugby league portfolio with the top international tournaments, enabling us to offer audiences the pinnacle events of the sport each year.

Sailed in the smaller AC45 wing-sailed catamaran, these events not only provide an opportunity for teams to compete against each other in advance of the pinnacle events in 2013, but also serve as a global calling card for San Francisco.

"This is the pinnacle spectator event," Steranka said.