It is a stance in which the athlete is ready at the same time to give a kick with the front leg as well as defend against the opponent's low level kicks by lifting the front knee and blocking.

His feat of holding the world records for the mile, the 5, 000 m and the 10, 000 m at the same time has not been matched by any other athlete before or since.

If two athletes lift the same total weight and have the same bodyweight, the winner is the athlete who lifted the total weight first.

Allende was a talented athlete in his youth, being a member of the Everton de Viña del Mar sports club ( named after the more famous English football club of the same name and which regularly competes at the highest level in Chilean football ), where he is said to have excelled at the long jump.

He is black-haired, the same age as his pal though a bit shorter and huskier, described as a natural athlete who likes to play for fun.

That same year, Indiana State coach John Wooden brought the first African-American student athlete to play at the national tournament.

In a 1998 interview to PBS, Chang explained that he is an avid tennis player and is thus often mistaken for being Michael Chang, an unrelated athlete with the same name.

He remained undefeated at all distances that year, was voted " athlete of the year " by Athletics Weekly and Track and Field News and was ranked number one in the world at 800m and 1500m: no other athlete since has ranked number one at these distances in the same year.

That same year, 1930, he was honored with the first James E. Sullivan Award, awarded annually by the Amateur Athletic Union to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.

That same year she finished second in the Sports Journalists Award, with the athlete Liz McColgan coming first.

His wife Dana Zátopková ( born the same day as her husband ) was an outstanding athlete in her own right in the javelin throw.

She begins to idolize the young athlete and eventually transfers to Japan to attend the same school that Sano attends.

At a time when women in sports were not given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete.

Oerter was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympics, a feat only matched by Carl Lewis in the long jump.

Hwang's contemporary South Korean athlete Lee Bong-Ju won the silver medal in the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, and Nam Sung-yong won the bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin at the same race that Sohn Kee-chung won.

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Lagat surpassed all his previous achievements by becoming the first athlete to become world champion in both the 1, 500 m and 5, 000 m at the same IAAF World Outdoor Championships.

At the same time, Wright understood that Evans ' varied experiences as an athlete provided him with an in-depth knowledge of sports.

On October 11, 1992, Sanders played in a Falcons game at Miami and then flew to Pittsburgh, hoping to play in the Braves ' League Championship Series game against the Pirates that evening and become the first athlete to play in two professional leagues in the same day.

In addition to being named Canada's athlete of the half-century, he was named the country's top football player over the same period.

Conacher was a prolific athlete, excelling in numerous sports at the same time.

It is performed in the same way as high jump, with the difference being that the athlete stands still and jumps with both feet together.

If I could make myself feel the same way

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

`` I couldn't write with them in the same room with me, but I could with Harold.

It could go either way, since the gains for both points of view were about the same.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

You couldn't on the one hand decry the arts and at the same time practice them, could you??

As long as there were two human beings working together on the same project, there would be competition and you could no more escape it than you could expect to escape the grave.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The same shelter could be built into an embankment or below ground level.

It would be even more valuable because that same aircraft could immediately destroy any targets it discovered -- no need to wait for a missile to come all the way from the United States with the chance that the target, if it were mobile, would be gone.

We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.

Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.

From here they proceeded to ( 3 ) These same areas in relation to their own future family life stages, developing these to the extent of examining various crises which could be expected to confront them at some time or other.

As one would surmise, the procedure, however, could be repeated with the same object or with the same type of object often enough, so that the corresponding visual blots and the merest beginning of the tracing movement would provide clues as to the actual shape, which the patient then immediately could determine by a kind of inference.

The same could be said for the song to which they make their entrance in the final scene.

Other synonyms could of course serve the same function, and for the sake of ease I shall speak of kennings and epithets in the widest and loosest possible sense, and name, for example, Gar-Dene a kenning for the Danes.

A refrigerated item could also be heated and served in less time than is required for frozen foods of the same type.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.