Sentence examples for returning to olympic from inspiring English sources

All eyes were on the Romanians, considered favourites: the 24-year-old Catalina Ponor, returning to Olympic competition eight years after she won a gold medal on the apparatus, and Larisa Iordache, the 16-year-old wunderkind from Bucharest who had been substituted into the final in the place of her team-mate Diana Bulimar.

According to a 1999 article in the San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage, Glickman expressed his feelings to historian Peter Levine about returning to Olympic Stadium in Berlin in 1985 as part of a tribute to Jesse Owens.

Returning to Olympic-style skating after two years on the professional circuit, Todd Eldredge took second place despite a failed quad and an abandoned combination jump.

Todd Eldredge has won five national titles and one world championship, but he is only now returning to Olympic-style figure skating after an absence of two years.

Germany returned to Olympic competition at the 1928 Games, which featured the debut of the Olympic flame.

Because of a change in eligibility rules for 1994, he was able to return to Olympic competition at the Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, where he finished sixth.

But, with eight of the nine previous cases going in favour of the athlete, Baxter looks set to return to Olympic competition in Turin in 2006.

Deng Xiaoping, then China's top leader, announced the "Ten Year Sports Guidelines" and China returned to Olympic competition after a 32-year absence.

In 1998, when the event returned to Olympic, Allen was the first alternate and waited throughout the early part of the week for someone to drop out — as usually happens — so he could realize his dream.

He returned to Olympic competition in 1968 but did not medal; at the 1972 Games in Munich, West Germany, under the pressures of competition and a failing sail-making business, he suffered a nervous breakdown.

Last year, Romero returned to competition at the British national championships, taking the silver medal with the Orbea-For Goodness Shakes team, and reportedly ready to give it everything in order to return to Olympic action.