Sentence examples for spectator about from inspiring English sources

The concluding event, the men's marathon, was won by Stefano Baldini of Italy after the leader, Brazil's Vanderlei Lima, was assaulted by a deranged spectator about 4 miles (6.4 km) from the finish line.

The concluding event, the men's marathon, was won by Stefano Baldini of Italy after the leader, Brazil's Vanderlei Lima, was assaulted by a deranged spectator about four miles from the finish line.

Katherine Downes spoke to one spectator about how he had prepared for the full sun inside the ground.

Last year's C.W.S. drew 300,702 spectators, about 26,000 fewer than the Class AAA Omaha Royals attracted for a season.

Sixty spectators, about half of them her friends and family, watched as a right hook slammed into Ms. Cruz's temple.

The massed spectators about the green arena at the culminating moment of a terrific battle realize that tennis history may be unrolling before them.

He spoke with athletes and spectators about four blocks from the finish line: Police blocked streets near the finish line as weary runners streamed out of the area, many wrapped in foil blankets.

These were the equivalent of the battle's grandstands, and the hills were heavy with spectators, about half teenagers and half older, a hundred people milling around, arguing politics and charting the progress of the clashes.

Now, as the parade went by, there were lots of jokes among the spectators about the risk of Geraint Jones and Pietersen - the series' two England butterfingers - dropping the trophy or their bottles of champagne.

She was practicing with her partner, 19-year-old Katarina Srebotnik, before more than 300 spectators, about double the size of the crowd watching a match on a nearby court.

At the end of each session, there were first-, second-, third- and fourth-place winners — including Adams, Andrews and Lambke in some order — and afterward the knights took off their helmets, signed lance shards in black Sharpie and answered questions from the spectators about the hotness and heaviness of their armor.