Sentence examples for significant athlete from inspiring English sources

Given there may be no more significant athlete in South African history, it seems ironic that most of the football supporters now heading for the country have probably never heard of Makhaya Ntini.

Other significant athletes in Sochi included Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, Slovenian Alpine skier Tina Maze, Canadian bobsleigh driver Kaillie Humphries, and ice hockey legend Sidney Crosby, who led the Canadian team to its second consecutive gold medal before he completed an award-winning NHL season with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Although the difference in cough reflex sensitivity to capsaicin is not statistically significant, athletes' C5 values are lower than what is reported in the literature in healthy subjects (C5: 125-186 μM), while our non-athlete subjects were in the same range.

Yet, we also observe a significant scattering: Athletes ranked around (r=1mbox000) can gather anywhere from 10 to 105 visits per year, wide differences that support the impression that popularity is often divorced from performance.

For the purpose of this review, only T-wave inversions in ≥2 contiguous anterior, inferior or lateral leads (but not aVR, and III) were considered significant in athletes.

Data were analysed using a two-way between-subjects analysis of variance, with pair-wise comparisons, used to identify any significant differences in athlete anthropometrics and echocardiographic characteristics between the three BSA groups, together with athlete anthropometrics and echocardiographic characteristics between Black African, West-Asian and Caucasian ethnicity in the >2.3 m BSA group.

5 In the present study, FH of hypertension and basal blood pressure did not differ with ethnicity, although 10 athletes demonstrated significant hypertension and 7 athletes displayed concentric LVH (average 15 mm), with 6 warranting pharmacological intervention.

"We've had reassurances from the World Health Organization and others that there is no significant risk to athlete health," he told the AP on the sidelines of an IOC meeting in Malaysia.

A better understanding of the causes of sport injuries and their recurrences can therefore have a significant impact on athlete health and associated care costs.

Results: For cognitive imagery ability, gender had a significant effect for athletes with low task/low ego orientation; female athletes rated their internal imagery perspective as clearer and more vivid.

The Welsh Rugby Union is using the Lions captain Sam Warburton to spearhead an anti-drugs campaign after a survey revealed a significant proportion of athletes on UK Anti-Doping's banned list are from the two rugby codes in Wales.