medal
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Brownlee said he knew there was one medal left to claim before he stepped away - an Olympic gold.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But a teenage Ronaldo took time to bed in, while Rooney, despite a debut hat-trick in Europe, had to wait until his third season for a Premier League winners' medal.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
South Korea won two golds, one silver and one bronze at the 2023 Asian Games, when eSports made its debut as an official medal event.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
A gold medal at the 2025 world championships set the stage for her triumph at the Milano-Cortina Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
But she didn’t want Kyle finding it, either, because she assumed Mr. Lemoncello would give a medal to whoever found the spot where the book was supposed to be.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Many of the special things Canadians cherish, we can also count as our own, from maple trees in Vermont to gold medals in Olympic hockey, from Alexander Graham Bell to Catherine O’Hara.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They were second in the medals table behind China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
He wears the scars as much as he holds the medals.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
He came home with two gold medals and his alma mater honored him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
“The medals clash with my earrings,” added Akimi.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
The dog that almost medaled at the Olympics.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
As a pair “Tai and Randy” won five U.S. championships, medaled in three world championships and qualified for the Olympics twice, all before Babilonia’s 21st birthday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
“Obviously it wasn’t my best performances, but at the end of the day, whoever medaled, medaled, and that’s what’s so exciting, because you just never know with gymnastics,” she said.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
He competed in five world championships and twice medaled in Grand Prix events, but his popularity came largely from his effervescent and free-spirited attitude on the ice rather than his results.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2023
In the 2002 Winter Olympic figure-skating competition, a French judge and a Russian judge were caught trying to swap votes to make sure their skaters medaled.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
I doubt I had ever seen so many uniformed, braided and medalled men under one roof.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2018
"For Deibold to medal is a testament to how strong our team is, because any of us could have medalled."
From Reuters ● Feb. 18, 2014
But few athletes were described as having medalled, and none of having podiumed.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2012
"I can happily say that I have been in four Olympic Games finals, which is incredible, and I'm glad that I've medalled in four as well," she said.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
Since then he had found the line in the most interesting room in the Palais d'Industrie, the cours had twice medalled him, and Albert Wolff was beginning to talk about his coloration delicieuse.
From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan
With one surgically rebuilt knee and a completely torn ACL in the other, the 41-year-old Vonn gutted her way to the starting gate and had a real chance of medaling before her violent crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
After medaling in duets at two world championships, he retired again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024
Olympic and Paralympic Committee does pay Team USA athletes for medaling but not for competing in the Olympics, although they can apply for grants to support their training and travel.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
In Tokyo, the Americans’ execution scores on each apparatus were mostly similar to the medaling teams.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022
I jumped right up and finished the event, but I knew I had no chance of medaling now.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
The United States finished with 69 points with Japan scoring 68 and Italy medalling for the first time in the team event with 60.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
So in terms of "medalling" the countries, it has to be bronze to the Netherlands, silver to Jamaica and shiny gold to the Czech Republic.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2012
Twitter users have spent days exploiting the Scooby Doo-inspired "we could have got gold if it wasn't for you medalling kids" gag.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2012
"It is rather a dangerous pastime, Mr. Lenoir, this medalling fancy of yours," he said.
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng
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