Sentence examples for pool of athletes from inspiring English sources

The committee must be heavy on grass-roots programs that increase the pool of athletes.

Each asked that his name be removed from the pool of athletes being considered for this summer's Olympic team.

5) The pool of athletes subject to testing, both in the UK and worldwide, should be deepened.

Gregg Troy, the United States Olympic men's head coach, said Phelps's phenomenal success had led to a deeper pool of athletes.

The first step was getting a large enough pool of athletes to create the Olympic success in soccer and basketball in 1996.

China and Russia, Mr. Epley said, identify talent in the very young and whittle the pool of athletes until only the best remain for the national teams.

This process is separate from the use of genetic testing to identify the commonly held definition of sporting talent adult performance whereby promising athletes' genetic profiles are compared to a pool of elite athletes to look for commonalities, the assumption being that a greater number of commonalities is associated with a greater chance of being elite.

That created the pool of professional athletes we have now.

In the Soviet Union there was a vast pool of top athletes to cultivate and train, in contrast to Israel, a country the size of New Jersey.

In the United States, where he estimates he plays 75 games a year for two teams, he makes hardly a ripple in the pool of professional athletes.

In light of so many big names missing – such as the European Indoor gold medallist and Olympic silver medallist Phillips Idowu, whose indoor season has been hampered by a knee injury – Van Commenee will be encouraged by the depth in talent of an emerging pool of British athletes.