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The madison is a team event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the " American race " in French ( course à l ' américaine ) and in Italian and Spanish as Americana.
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The madison is a conventional race but, since the innovation in New York, with riders in each team riding part of the distance, handing over to the other member, resting, and then returning to the race.
Modern six-days last less than 12 hours a day and the madison is now only a featured part, so staying on the track throughout is more feasible.
The madison is a feature of six-day races, but it can also be a separate race, as in the Olympic Games.
madison and track
In the main ' chase ' or madison events ( so-called after Madison Square Garden in New York where the two-man format was devised ), both riders may be on the track at the same time, taking it in turns to race, hand-slinging each other back into action.
In the main ' chase ' or madison sessions, both riders may be on the track at the same time, taking it in turns to race, hand-slinging each other back into action.
madison and first
The first such race was at Madison Square Garden and two-man tag racing has become known in English as a madison and to the French as l ' américaine.
madison and New
The madison began as a way of circumventing laws passed in New York, USA, aimed at restricting the exhaustion of cyclists taking part in six-day races.
madison and race
One racer propels his partner like a slingshot during a madison race.
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A madison typically lasts between 30 and 60 minutes, but can take up to 90 minutes.
Team races ( like the madison ) have some riders at speed and others riding more slowly.
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is and team
It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.
On a team a man feels he is a part of it and akin to the men next to him.
Russia knows this, and that is why there were over 800,000 competing for places as candidates for the Olympic gymnastic team.
At the present time the research team which pioneered this new technique is primarily interested in advancing and perfecting it.
However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.
The deeds of this team, through two seasons and in the two World's Series that followed, have been written and talked about until hardly a word is left to be said.
Moritz is listed on the Longhorn roster as a right halfback, the position at which he lettered on the 1956 team.
`` Pittsburgh definitely is the team to beat '', Mauch said here the other day.
Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.
So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.
`` A team is a team '', insisted Cady.
Paneloux joins the team of volunteer workers and preaches another sermon saying that the death of the innocent child is a test of faith.
The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.
In the United Kingdom and other countries, a quantity surveyor is often part of the team to provide cost consulting.
Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.
; Assaulting a member of an international joint investigation team: This offence is created by section 57 ( 2 ) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
However, the team could not sustain its status and is now back in the second division.
During the period of holding a particular office everyone on the team is observing everybody else.
The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns ( for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team ).
It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.
* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
is and event
He is still concerned, however, with a personal event.
The design is determined emotionally: `` I must reach into myself for the spring that will send me catapulting recklessly into the chaos of event with which the dance confronts me ''.
This monitoring is necessary because, on a parade ground, everyone can hear too much, and without monitoring a confused social event would develop.
In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.
In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.
Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;
In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
One such event is the landing in Europe itself, when the mingled familiarity and strangeness of the Occident, after the blank immensities of Asia, shocks the returning traveller into a realization of the infinite possibilities of human life.
In any event, the yearly sacrifice of 40,000 victims is a hecatomb too large to be justified by the most ardent faith.
the passage and rhythm of time changed, and when I remember back to what happened then, each event is a separate and frozen incident.
So don't see yourself as a heroine or fancy this little adventure is an event of major importance ''.
In any event it is a form of borrowing which could be and should be rendered unnecessary.
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For example, child welfare experience abounds with cases in which the parental request for substitute care is precipitated by a crisis event which is meaningfully linked with a fundamental unresolved problem of family relationships.
Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.
Destruction of the enemy's building and base complex, however, requires attacks on enemy territory, which is possible only in event of all-out hostilities.
Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.
The only current event they're staging is the big show at the Stadium Nov. 25, when Danny will entertain thousands of underprivileged kids.
A preview party for sponsors of the event and for the artists is set for April 8.
The event is the sixth on the annual calendar of the local members of the National Council of Jewish Women.
In that event, they note, the Revenue Service might declare the pension plan is discriminatory and deny it tax privileges under the law.
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