Sentence examples similar to sporting- from inspiring English sources

Not only is the GAA a classic Victorian organisation, it has been much more faithful to its origins in late-19th-century sporting culture than the English sports that influenced it.

Beckham also highlighted the fact that NFL players' careers are not as long as their counterparts in other major sporting leagues in the US.

Great sporting moments - It's hard to imagine the average FA boss storming onto the pitch during a World Cup game to get a goal overturned but that is what Kuwait FA president Prince Fahid did in 1982 against France, claiming that his players had heard a whistle and stopped playing.

Ricky van Wolfswinkel, signed from Sporting Lisbon for £8.5m, has one in 22 Premier League appearances and Johan Elmander one in 25.

But "she took an honourable icon that is seen in sporting venues everywhere and degraded it".

He said sporting clubs had a responsibility to address the issue within their ranks and extended communities.

The Observer has learned that a major report by Ofsted looking at the level of sporting activity in schools before and after the coalition came to office in 2010, which was originally due for publication last August, has been put back to the end of February at the earliest.

On Friday morning, a few hundred fans and journalists braved the freezing cold to attend a draw party at Sporting Park, Kansas City, site of Saturday's MLS Cup final, for a watch party also attended by several US national team members, including Clint Dempsey and Omar Gonzalez, as well as internationals from the competing MLS Cup finalists Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake.

To add salt to the wound of those who felt this was wasted cash, despite Sheffield producing many sporting talents in this period (including Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis), Don Valley Stadium, where Ennis trained, finally closed in September 2013 due to extreme financial pressures, and has since been demolished.

Sporting bodies who entangle their national teams in a surfeit of red tape tend to receive little sympathy.

Behind the image, however, lies a very modern template for British sporting success – a combination of talent, brutal work ethic and the appliance of scientific method to performance that underpinned every triumph of the Olympic summer.