starting blocks

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So - which parts of Team GB triumphed, and which struggled to get off the starting blocks?

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024

Washington state has taken a big step in the right direction, but we’ve only just left the starting blocks.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2023

Last year at the state meet, Trepagnier was so nervous that she threw up seven times in the time she walked from the staging areas to the starting blocks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2023

"Without a prima facie right, the respondents never got out of the starting blocks," part of the judgement read.

From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2022

From their starting blocks to their jumping standards to their landing systems and cages and hurdles and bleachers, their equipment totally puts Liberty High to shame.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen