Sentence examples for rival in the event from inspiring English sources

The American swimmer Lilly King, another rookie Olympian and Efimova's fastest rival in the event, was watching the race's conclusion on a TV monitor in the waiting area.

The field was diminished after Iouri Podladtchikov of Switzerland, a two-time silver medalist at the Winter X Games who was considered White's biggest rival in the event, withdrew with an illness.

Meanwhile, Hermès' three controlling families, who collectively own 73.4% of the shares, could not have been more dismissive of his efforts to build a relationship with the French luxury-goods company, which, with barely 10% of LVMH's revenues, would hardly transform its larger domestic rival in the event of a takeover.

But while the Democrats had hoped to leave town for the August recess on an upbeat note, Mr. Bush and his party succeeded in outflanking them with veiled — and not so veiled — warnings that any failure to give the president the authority he sought would leave his rivals liable in the event of another terrorist attack.

China were given the silver and bronze went to Australia's Anna Meares – Pendleton's great rival in the individual events – and Kaarle McCulloch.

His opponents there have alleged that he also had a hand, because of a dispute with a rival warlord, in the events in Khost that led to the sniper killing on Jan . 4of Sgt. First Class Nathan Ross Chapman, the Special Forces soldier who is the only uniformed American combat casualty of the war here.

Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the publisher of The Daily News, has said in a letter to a public interest group that he will bid to take over the paper's chief rival, The New York Post, in the event that federal regulators require the News Corporation to sell The Post.

A meeting was called pregnant with history, and it was decided to withdraw the syndicate rights to a comic strip called "Dick Tracy" from the Record and turn them over to the rival Inquirer, and in the event that wasn't enough, to do the same with another one called "Moon Mullins".

Meares v Pendleton was one of the most eagerly anticipated contests coming into these Games, with the 28-year-old Queenslander expected to get the better of her British rival in the keirin, an event she has won at the last two World Championships.

With the going officially put last night as good, good to firm in places, John Oxx's three-year-old will face a change of ground when she takes on nine rivals in the National Stud Never Say Die Club-sponsored event after scoring by four lengths from Selebela in the soft at York.

She is a world-class hurdler and therefore needs to make ground on her rivals in this event What will she have to do in London?