Sentence examples for supporting athletes from inspiring English sources

"Historically, cheerleading has been about supporting athletes, not about being an athlete," said Barbara Osborne, a scholarship basketball player who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1982 and who now advises universities on gender-equity issues.

Zoya comes from Pakistan, Bassma is from Morocco and Rayana comes from Bulgaria, so we are going to be supporting athletes other than just British ones – there are even more countries taking part in the Olympics than the countries that people come from in my school.

There is a chance that donors may not want to donate to an online fundraiser because they are used to supporting athletes by buying cookie dough or wrapping paper through them.

"We've got to get back to the business of supporting athletes".

It can't be enough to support athletes only on the court or the field.

An article on Monday about Involved Fan, a Web site that aims to support athletes through online donations, misspelled the name of another crowdfunding site.

Chris McGuire, the head of sports marketing for Adidas America, said in a statement, "We support athletes and recognize the benefit partners and sponsorship can provide to support track and field athletes' training".

"What we have now, the Cas is open 24 hours a day, I think that today or tomorrow we will support athletes, including by an appeal".

She says if the sport could put in place a financial programme to support coaches, in the way it supports athletes, it could recruit and retain more coaches of both sexes.

With the fall of Communism also came the end of a system that had supported artists with studios, or stipends, or both -- the same way it had supported athletes and scientists.

Discussions of performance-enhancing drugs are also complicated by the fact that most spectators say they disapprove of drugs even as they turn out to support athletes who have tested positive for banned substances.