Sentence examples for skaters won from inspiring English sources

The Russian pairs skaters won the gold, but after questions were raised about the judging, the Olympic committee awarded duplicate gold medals to the second-place Canadian team.

A net wall around the ramp drove home the divide; when the skaters won money for a trick (as Dustin Charlton did, diving from the rafters on his board, his red ZZ Top beard flying, to land in a bloody pile on the plywood) they were fed dollar bills through the net like animals at the zoo.

In 2002--only 2002--only 2002--only 3is first sketch--Hol got his success: At the World Inline Championships in France, 45 skaters won their gold, silver, and bronze medals on Mogemas.

Skaters win not by pleasing themselves or their coaches or even the crowd in the arena, but by pleasing the judges and the insider community they represent.

Indeed, Mauss and her colleagues found that when people were explicitly searching for happiness, they experienced less joy in watching a figure skater win a gold medal.

Born and raised in Norway, Johann Olav Koss has had an extraordinary career as a speed-skater, winning three gold medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and a gold and a silver medal in Albertville two years prior.

June 20 , 1961Dresden, German Democratic Republic Karin Enke, married name Enke-Kania (born June 20 , 1961 Dresden, East Germany [now Germany]) German figure skater turned speed skater who won eight Olympic medals, including three gold.

The scoring system may be an obstacle to artistry as skaters rush to complete all the moves required to boost their point totals, but the skaters who won managed to master both grace and power.

He was one of South Korea's best skaters and won his first three Olympic golds while competing for South Korea.

They are still in fifth place in the medal standings with five gold, thanks to a late surge of its short-track skaters, who won two gold Saturday.

Since 1964, Soviet or Russian skaters had won the pairs competition in 12 consecutive Winter Games, bringing the sport some of its most recognizable names: the Protopopovs; Rodnina and Zaitsev; Gordeeva and Grinkov.