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Ekiden (駅伝) is a long-distance running multi-stage relay race, mostly held on roads. [1]: 812 [2]The original Japanese term had nothing to do with a sport or a competition, but it simply referred to the age old post-horse or stagecoach courier system which transmitted communication by stages, instead of one horse or a man covering the entire long distance.
A runner legally touching a base is "safe"—in most situations he may not be put out. Runners may attempt to advance from base to base at any time (except when the ball is dead). A runner that must attempt to advance is forced, when all previous bases are occupied and a batted ball that touches the ground is a fair ball. The runner forced to ...
Example: "Banged up Braves ready for playoff rematch with Astros." A bang-up game is an exciting or close game. Example from a sports headline: "A Real Bang-Up Finish." A bang bang play is one in which the runner is barely thrown out, a very close call, typically at first base. Perhaps reflecting the "bang" of the ball in the first-baseman's ...
There will be three weeks without a network television game, two in April and one in September. The Thursday games on September 14 and 21 and Saturday game on September 30 will feature flexible scheduling, similar to the NFL schedule format since 2006, allowing Fox to schedule games with playoff implications to air in the national time slots ...
Games Gold Silver Bronze 100 metres details: Gail Devers United States: 10.82 Juliet Cuthbert Jamaica: 10.83 Irina Privalova Unified Team ( Russia) 10.84 200 metres details: Gwen Torrence United States: 21.81 Juliet Cuthbert Jamaica: 22.02 Merlene Ottey Jamaica: 22.09 400 metres details: Marie-José Pérec France: 48.83 Olha Bryzhina Unified ...
The game has many different names in different parts of the UK: 'tig' in Yorkshire and Scotland, 'tick' in the North West of England, and 'it' in the South of England.In the United States of America the game is usually called 'tag', and in Australia it is sometimes called 'tips'.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1948 London details: Olga Gyarmati Hungary: 5.695 m Noemí Simonetto Argentina: 5.60 m Ann-Britt Leyman Sweden: 5.575 m 1952 Helsinki details: Yvette Williams New Zealand: 6.24 m Aleksandra Chudina Soviet Union: 6.14 m Shirley Cawley Great Britain: 5.92 m 1956 Melbourne details: Elżbieta Krzesińska Poland: 6.35 m ...
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. The series is based on George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire. The series takes place on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, and chronicles the power struggles among noble families as they fight for control of the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms ...