Sentence examples for vying for medals from inspiring English sources

She has long-range goals of vying for medals in the Olympics and at world championships.

Mary King and Tina Cook had been vying for medals, but both had two fences down and had to be satisfied with fifth and sixth respectively.

Feofanova, Isinbayeva and Stacy Dragila have been taking turns breaking world indoor and outdoor marks in the pole vault in recent years, and all three will be vying for medals at the Athens Olympics in August.

A year from now, thousands of sportsmen and women will be vying for medals across 26 different sports on the world's biggest stage.

Five countries are vying for Olympic medals at the Iceberg Skating Palace Sunday, with Russia leading entering the competition's third and final day.

A natural-born child of the meritocracy, I'd been amassing momentum my whole life, entering spelling bees, vying for forensics medals, running my mouth in mock United Nations, and I knew only one direction: forward.

Before that, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California will be one of the Olympic torchbearers and N.H.L. executives will begin holding their breath that one of their star players won't be injured vying for a medal.

They also wanted to stay out of the way of the nations vying for the other medal places, Mills explained.

They gawked at a thick log oozing black goop, the entry of Wyatt Parke, a 51-year-old carpenter on crutches, who was vying for a gold medal in the Biggest Poison Oak Stalk category.

Lithuania and Croatia will be vying for the silver medal in tonight's match while Poland are promoted.

But you don't have to be vying for a gold medal to benefit from training your brain.