Sentence examples for sporting action from inspiring English sources

London 2012 organisers suffered major embarrassment on the opening day of sporting action after North Korea initially refused to play their women's football match against Colombia.

After what seemed like an eternal buildup to these Games, culminating in the pomp and pageantry of the opening ceremony, the time for sporting action to finally take centre stage in Rio arrived.

Between them the 26 TV channels will broadcast 2,500 hours of sporting action – 1,000 more than from Beijing in 2008 – out of an estimated 3,000 hours of Olympics competition.

In a Paralympics closing ceremony designed to act as a coda to a remarkable six weeks of sporting action, director Kim Gavin attempted to mix a surreal celebration of all that had been achieved with the melancholia of time passing.

Sixteen years on, as logistical concerns finally give way to sporting action as the Games begin with a football match in Cardiff, the fruits of a remarkable evolution are clear.

Coe said about 37,000 tickets had been sold for the opening sporting action of the Games – Team GB women's football team taking on New Zealand at the Millennium stadium next Wednesday.

Sports action singles was won by Wei Seng Chen for an image of a bull race in Malaysia.

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ESPN has been experimenting with using a split screen for commercial breaks: ads play on one side while sports action continues, silently, on the other.

The Independent has teamed up with Donington Park and the event organisers to offer readers 10 pairs of tickets to see spectacular day of motor sport action.

From point-to-point directions to play-by-play sports action, our screens light up at just the right moment to keep us in the know.