Sentence examples for racing an event from inspiring English sources

Pursuit racing, in bicycle racing, an event in which teams or individuals start on opposite sides of an oval track with the goal of overtaking the opponents.

This weekend marked Austin's fourth year hosting Formula One racing, an event that brings hundreds of thousands of visitors from all around the world.

The Spaniard was far more impassioned when asked how it felt to be racing in an event which he could lose a month later in the courtrooms.

In order to have a chance of competing at the World Championships, visually impaired skier Gallagher must score points by racing in an event this season.

Winn began promoting the Kentucky Derby as something more than a regional race, an event greater than the race of the West, as New York papers called it.

Hincapie will race here Sunday in USA Cycling's national professional road race, an event he won in 1998 in Philadelphia.

Prix du Jockey Club, one of the major French horse races, an event for three-year old colts and fillies that originated in 1836.

His long-awaited day to celebrate a solo finish-line victory came in Stage 4 of the storied Paris-Nice race, an event that began in 1933.

Miley had been bearing the weight of Team GB's medal expectations in the race, an event in which she took silver at last year's world championships.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, the graceful Coe was favoured in the 800-metre race, and the powerful Ovett was favoured in the 1,500-metre 1,500-metreent in which he and Coe sharacethe world record.

More than 10,000 runners crossed the finish line of Sunday's Boilermaker 15K Road Race, an event in Utica, N.Y., that boasts the largest and most competitive field of the nation's 15-kilometer races.