Sentence examples for toughest event from inspiring English sources

But it's far from being The Toughest Event on the Planet, which is how it sells itself.

The toughest event in the national calendar is, in the opinion of the cognoscenti, the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams at the Fall Nationals.

"I know who won those seven Tours, my teammates know who won those seven Tours, and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours," Armstrong said, adding: "The toughest event in the world, where the strongest man wins.

Bode Miller, a triple medalist at these Olympics who was a slalom threat in his early years, considers the slalom "the toughest event" and not just because he rarely completes both runs anymore.

The event in Kettering is called the Tough Mudder: a 12-mile assault course with 22 major obstacles that claims to be "probably the toughest event on the planet".

Two British victors of cycling's toughest event back to back might seem an outlandish idea, but Dave Brailsford, Team Sky, Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins have managed to make it seem routine at the same time.

BEIJING — Shortly after shattering the world record in the 400-meter individual medley, one of swimming's toughest events, Michael Phelps dropped a bombshell.

The 51-year-old grandmother, who is one of Britain's top ultra runners and holder of several world titles, takes part in Spartathlon, one of the sport's toughest events, later this week.

In Europe, France's 29-year-old François Gabart wins one of the toughest events in sports — the nonstop, single-handed round-the-world Vendée Globe sailing race — in a record time.

"When you look at [Greene's event] the 400m hurdles, it's probably one of the toughest events," Johnson said.

Armstrong had been the subject of doping allegations since he returned from cancer in 1996 to dominate one of the world's toughest events from 1999 to 2005.