Sentence examples for pure sprinter from inspiring English sources

"It will be tough with Kittel there, I'm not a pure sprinter but I get involved because I enjoy them.

Surgery could correct the problem, but Baffert would not say whether he would travel to Kentucky with The Factor, who may also be a pure sprinter.

"Our Saturn team didn't have a pure sprinter," McCormack said, "so going into the last lap I didn't think we were in such good shape.

Though Sagan won the green jersey for sprinting last year and leads the competition again this year, he is not a pure sprinter, and his team does not always try to give him traditional lead-out trains.

"I didn't want a pure climber or a pure sprinter to have an advantage; I wanted an athlete that could do everything and take advantage of multiple opportunities to attack".

Ultimately, Stage 16 went to Thor Hushovd of Norway, who looks more like a strongman than a cyclist yet won his second stage in this year's race, continuing his evolution from pure sprinter to all-around threat.

It should be enough to drop the pure sprinters, and the long descent that follows is not for the nervous.

It's a bucolic 155km jaunt into London via the Olympic Park and ending on The Mall that should give the pure sprinters their first opportunity of a victory.

It is a condensed version of the Tour de France — with one time trial, three mountain stages, several hilly stages and one flat day into Vienna for the pure sprinters.

"In Britain, there are always stages where the climbs may not look super-difficult, but they can put the pure sprinters in trouble," said Swift, whose speciality is sprint finishes over a hilly course when the likes of Mark Cavendish or Marcel Kittel struggle.

It would never have happened during a Tour de France but the Giro's policy for awarding the same number of points for results on uphill stages as they do on the flat often puts general classification contenders like Evans in amongst the pure sprinters.