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; and all-rounder
A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler ; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder.
Vettori is a bowling all-rounder who bowls slow left-arm orthodox spin ; he is known for his accuracy, flight and guile rather than prodigious turn.
Frank Rowbotham Foster ( born 31 January 1889, Birmingham, England ; died 3 May 1958, Northampton, England ) was a Warwickshire and England all-rounder whose career was cut short by an accident during World War I.
Batting, he scored 54 runs ; his innings included a memorable hit over the leg side boundary from the bowling of leading Test all-rounder George Giffen, and he captured seven wickets for the match with his bowling.
There are nine regular characters in Fighters Destiny: Ryuji, a Japanese karate master ; Abdul, a well-balanced fighter from Mongolia ; Tomahawk, a professional wrestler from the United States ; Meiling, a Chinese kung fu expert ; a Japanese Ninja with a massive catalog of special moves ; Pierre, a French clown with a deceptive fighting style ; Leon, an all-rounder from Spain ; Bob, a powerful Brazilian fighter ; and the tough aerial combat specialist Valerie from Germany.
Among the best of the professional players were the all-rounder Thomas Waymark, who was apparently a groom employed by the Duke of Richmond ; and Stephen Dingate, who may have been a barber.

; and racing
Three works Team Cars with 16-valve twin cam engines were built for racing and record breaking: chassis number 1914, later developed as the Green Pea ; chassis number 1915, the Razor Blade record car ; and chassis number 1916, later developed as the Halford Special.
The new company would compete with Cooper in the market for customer racing cars ; as Brabham was still employed by Cooper, Tauranac produced the first MRD car, for the entry level Formula Junior class, in secrecy.
RCR owns the stylized No. 3 logos used during Earnhardt's lifetime ; however these rights may not prevent a future racing team from using a different No. 3 design.
:" There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering ; all the rest are merely games.
Formula Two had become too expensive, and was dominated by works-run cars with factory engines ; the hope was that Formula 3000 would offer quicker, cheaper, more open racing.
Apart from the racing market, most buyers of these boats purchase them for the mystique ; the combination of the racing and smuggling connections, plus the immense power, high top speeds, and sleek shape make these boats popular.
Aluminum shoes are lighter, making them common in horse racing, where a lighter shoe is desired ; and often facilitate certain types of desired movement, and so are favored in the discipline of dressage.
Other Indiana businesses use Hoosier in the name of their companies: 1 ) Hoosier Racing Tire, manufacturer of racing tires ; and 2 ) Hoosier Bat Company, manufacturer of wood baseball bats.
The site is owned by Cardiff Athletic Club and has been host to many sports, apart from rugby union and cricket ; they include athletics, association football, greyhound racing, tennis, British baseball and boxing.
Nevertheless, when Schumacher needed a new engine costing 800 DM, his parents were unable to afford it ; Michael was able to continue racing with support from local businessmen.
Most races that are held in the spring and summer feature side by side racing also called a regatta ; all the boats start at the same time from a stationary position and the winner is the boat that crosses the finish line first.
Aluminum shoes are lighter, making them common in horse racing, where a lighter shoe is desired ; and often facilitate certain types of desired movement, and so are favored in the discipline of dressage.
In 1994, less than two years after the release of Super Mario Kart, Sega released Sonic Drift ; a kart racing game featuring characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
LeMay loaned out facilities of Strategic Air Command bases for the SCCA's use ; the SCCA relied heavily on these venues during the early and mid 1950s during the transition from street racing to permanent circuits.
National agencies that tax automobiles according to displacement and regulatory bodies in automobile racing variously consider the Wankel engine to be equivalent to a four-stroke engine of 1. 5 to 2 times the displacement ; some racing series ban it altogether.
Some dinghies have only one triangular sail, but most have two configured as a sloop ; some dingies and almost all larger racing boats carry a spinnaker, a large, bulging sail designed for sailing " with the wind.
While sailing groups organize the most active and popular competitive yachting, other boating events are also held world-wide: speed motor boat racing ; competitive canoeing, kayaking, and rowing ; and navigational contests ( generally a test of celestial and landmark-based navigation skills where GPS and other electronic navigation equipment is disallowed ) are among the events which are organized around the world.
Yacht races may be over a simple course of only a few miles, as in the harbour racing of the International One Design ; long-distance, open-ocean races, like the Bermuda Race ; or epic trans-global contests such as the Global Challenge, Volvo Ocean Race, Clipper Round the World Race and Mini Transat 6. 50.
The 1972 motorcycle racing documentary On Any Sunday is generally credited with inspiring the movement nationally in the United States ; its opening scene shows kids riding their Sting-Rays off-road.
Due to the amateur state of racing, owners are usually also the trainer and rearer of the dogs ; it is very rare that a dog is kenneled with a trainer.

; and cyclist
Piepsam's fatal rage arises not only because he cannot stop the cyclist, but also because God will not stop him ; ;
She has two siblings ; an older brother named Todd, an actor and avid cyclist, and a younger brother named Schuyler.
" Waiting for Godot is clearly not about track cycling, but it is said that Beckett himself did wait for French cyclist Roger Godeau ( 1920 – 2000 ; a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961 ), outside the velodrome in Roubaix.
* Stefano Garzelli ( born 1973 ), cyclist ; overall winner of the 2000 Giro d ' Italia.
A photo, taken in 1908, shows a cyclist resting there ;
The original tunnel was one of three forming the original Tyne Tunnel Project ; the others are the pedestrian and cyclist tunnels opened in 1951.
* Steve Paulding, Welsh cyclist ; husband of Julie
The nadir of the film is the inclusion of an extreme fatal accident ; the shattered remains of a cyclist are seen under a semi-tractor trailer.
He was asked whether it was hard being a racing cyclist ; his reply was that being a French farmer was harder.
*( born 1978 ) Daniel Czajkowski, Polish cyclist who turned professional in 2001 ; has been a member of DHL – Author team since 2006
:"... and much more likely to endure their miseries publicly ; a tired walker, after all, merely sits down-a tired cyclist falls off and possibly brings others crashing down as well.
For example, a cyclist planning to go straight through an intersection should avoid getting stuck in a right-turn-only lane, where it is easy to get clobbered by a right-turning car ; a cyclist in a through-traffic lane may get a few surprised looks but will probably not get hit.
The Cavalry Division had two brigades of two regiments each, three horse artillery batteries, and a cyclist battalion, along with support units ; it had a total strength of 4, 500 all ranks with 12 guns, and was-in effect-little more than a reinforced brigade.
* No other cyclist, nor another man on foot could have anything to do with the murder, for there are no marks on the ground to indicate this ;
* Jason Queally, gold medal-winning cyclist at the 2000 Summer Olympics ;
Such fatigue can become seriously debilitating ; in cycling, exhaustion can reach the point where the cyclist is unable to stand without the support provided by the bicycle.
* Born: Floyd Landis, American cyclist and 2006 Tour de France winner, later stripped of his title ; in Farmersville, Pennsylvania
* Born: Mitch Gaylord, first American gymnast to score a 10. 00 in Olympic competition ( 1984 ); in Van Nuys, California ; Greg Kolodziejzyk, Canadian cyclist, in Fort St. John, British Columbia
Famous people from Junín include Argentine supermodel Yesica Toscanini, Tour de France cyclist Juan Antonio Flecha, football greats such as coach Osvaldo Zubeldía, forward Atilio García and goalie Federico Vilar, and the " wild bull of the pampas ," boxer Luis Ángel Firpo ; Junín was also where Eva Duarte was raised until an opportunity in radio took her to Buenos Aires, in 1935.
It was won by American cyclist Lance Armstrong, but in August 2012, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his victory in the 2000 Tour de France ; although the Union Cycliste Internationale, responsible for international cycling, did not immediately take over this verdict.
The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey ; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.
For the general classification, these times were added up ; the cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader.

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