Sentence examples for skiing contest from inspiring English sources

Kelly Gallagher, from Northern Ireland, took Britain's first ever gold at a Winter Games, with guide Charlotte Evans, in the visually impaired super-G skiing contest, and Etherington and Powell took bronze in the same event.

No sport at the Games can match biathlon for military firepower: soldiers the world over competing in a cross country skiing contest punctuated by rounds on a rifle range.

Nick Goepper wrapped up a spot on the U.S. Olympic team with his second-place finish at the U.S. Grand Prix slopestyle skiing contest at Copper Mountain, Colo.... Lindsey Jacobellis qualified for the U.S. Olympic team by winning the Lake Louise Canadaa) World Cup snowboard cross despite a broken right thumb.

In 1767, the army's commanderdevised new regulations for skiing contests.

Sochi boasts several newly built arenas to accommodate sports from speed skating to ice hockey to curling, while resorts miles outside of the city are now prepared to host Alpine skiing contests and the bobsled, luge and skeleton events.

Elected Governor in 1983, he quickly gained a reputation for energy -- he competed in a nationwide ski contest for the prefecture -- and for economic development.

Mr. Schell is intimate with delta rituals, from the Frozen Bun Run, an annual New Year's Day water-ski contest on Bethel Island (no wet suits allowed), to the more arcane pastime of drawing a circle on the barroom floor, putting a bunch of crawdads in the middle and betting which one will skittle out first.

By the start of the 20th century, a second upstart style of skiing competition had joined the older established cross-country skiing races and ski-jumping contests of Nordic skiing.

Skiing priest contest, cassock optional Jump to media player Priests and clergymen compete in Poland's annual Pope John Paul II skiing competition.

The Nordic combined is a separate test consisting of a 15-km cross-country race and special ski-jumping contest, with the winner determined on the basis of points awarded for performance in both events.

The Nordic combined is a separate test consisting of a 10-km cross-country race and special ski-jumping contest, with the winner determined on the basis of points awarded for performance in both.