The word "prelim" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used as an abbreviated form of "preliminary," meaning something that comes before the main or final event. Example: Before the final exam, students must pass a prelim in order to qualify for the competition.
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The card is heavy with talent, from the first prelim featuring Ultimate Fighter 20 contestants, Randa Markos and Aisling Daly, all the way up to the main event title fight.
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Rucker said he was cut before the exhibition games started, but returned once to Madison Square Garden for "a prelim game" with a team that he was playing for in upstate New York.
Lesson unheeded, I attempted to run my 800-meter prelim from the middle of the pack as well, with almost equally disastrous results.
Between the morning and afternoon sessions (my prelim being in the morning and final being in the evening), I analyzed my preliminary race and assessed what I needed to do in the final.
I'll be watching live and I hope you can join me – the early prelims will be on Fight Pass from 8.30pm, with the prelims and main card following on BT Sport from 10pm.
This is just the prelims and it's always going to feel harder as you've got to get up in the morning.
(The prelims are marred only by the absence of the company of my good friend and fellow-Canadian Bruce McCall, the peerless New Yorker cover visionary, who saw his shoulder succumb to the ice of an Upper West Side street earlier this week).
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet (The prelims are marred only by the absence of the company of my good friend and fellow-Canadian Bruce McCall, the peerless New Yorker cover visionary, who saw his shoulder succumb to the ice of an Upper West Side street earlier this week).
"I would prefer just prelims and finals, so I would be able to handle more swims," said Lochte, who qualified to race in four individual events and at least two relays here.
