Sentence examples for sporting failure from inspiring English sources

Australia's media can be hysterical in its treatment of sporting failure.

There is a sequence of photographs of Ben Stokes that sums up the utter wretchedness of sporting failure.

Leonard extracts the dignity that sometimes exists in sporting failure; this is not the world of Armstrong, Keane or Pietersen and all the more appealing because of that.

"Sporting failure has fitted comfortably into the story of a nation in decline, a country that has lost an empire and failed to find the goal net," the often dystopian broadcaster Jeremy Paxman wrote in The Sunday Telegraph.

That this is now almost a disappointment shows how far expectations have surged after the week of success that induced shock, disbelief and giddy delight in a nation that has grown morbidly used to sporting failure.

The research, which is to be presented at the British Psychological Society annual sport and exercise conference in Cardiff on Monday, found that the individual athletes tend to blame themselves for sporting failure.

Caricaturing Australians in this way, of course, licensed the British to congratulate themselves on their sporting failures.

As things stand, it's hardly a surprise that England's sequence of sporting failures has been going on longer than a Jeremy Corbyn reshuffle.

CRESSIDA LEYSHON: I think this wedding has felt so normal so far (despite all the pomp and circumstance) that there might not be the same kind of sick hangover you sometimes get after other big British royal events (or English sporting failures).

"Why is it that in an era of British sporting failures, we have two of the best, and hardly anybody knows about them in the U.K.?" Keith Huewen, a former champion motorcycle racer who was a television commentator at Goodwood, said after interviewing Wheldon and another British driver who is a two-time winner in recent years at Indianapolis, Dario Franchitti.

Five other sporting failures 10 February: Scottish snowboarder Lesley McKenna, who has received pounds 250,000 funding over the past four years, falls on both of her half-pipe runs at the Turin Winter Olympics 20 June: Scotland's top golfer Colin Montgomerie needs only a par 4 on the 18th to win his first-ever major.