Sentence examples for sporting powers from inspiring English sources

As well as the big names in the showpiece events, there will also be representatives of some of the world's lesser sporting powers such as Gambia, St Kitts and Nevis and the British Virgin Islands.

Although confident of Team GB's potential, Moynihan is under no illusions about the threat posed by the other major sporting powers.

And yet the three-year period – at the height of his sporting powers, from when he refused to step forward as draft officials in Houston called his name to 1971 when the supreme court overturned his conviction and five-year sentence – helped shape the Ali who would later become beloved.

In doing so, it knocked its bigger neighbour, Cuba, from its perch as the Caribbean's sporting power.

Spanish achievement in sports provided a much-needed cause for celebration in 2010 as the country took its place as a major sporting power.

Yahé is a huge celebrity in France, and one half of a sporting power couple as the fiancee of the France and Bordeaux-Bègles fly-half, Lionel Beauxis.

Whether the games have succeeded in rebranding Canada as a modern, youthful sporting power, as some of the organisers apparently hoped, remains to be seen.Now the bills will fall due.

Ahead of the Ashes, the balance of sporting power between Britain and Australia has changedTHE rest of the world might think Britain has gone a bit overboard in its reaction to Andy Murray's win at Wimbledon yesterday.

And Loretta Lynch, the tough California utilities czarina and Yale-trained litigator who questioned a year ago what Enron did that was of any value to consumers, will be look-nothing-alike Angelina Jolie, sporting power plant tattoos.

Japan, South Korea, Cuba, China, Brazil, and several of the former Soviet-bloc states can be classified as semiperipheral sports powers.

"We have a strategic vision to be in the top 10 sports powers by 2016," says Maurício França, chief of the agency's social technologies division.