medal
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Water companies being allowed to increase prices during droughts and Amy Hunt's gold medal run dominates Monday's papers.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Based on her performances this week, Hunt is only just getting started with her growing medal collection.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
More information relating to the postponed medal ceremonies is due to be released later.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Ireland's Kate O'Connor moved into pole position for heptathlon gold with one event remaining at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, where Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson is out of medal contention.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Mr. Lemoncello held up a shiny green medal.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
The Baltimore-area native won a record 28 medals, including 23 gold, over the course of five Olympic Games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The 24-year-old has overcome her share of setbacks to achieve a historic haul of four European gold medals in a sensational seven days on home soil.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The evening session concluded with Great Britain winning a pair of gold medals in the men's and women's 4x100m relays.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
British sprinter Amy Hunt certainly thinks so, and it seems to be working as she's now secured two gold medals at the European Athletics Championships.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
In three consecutive trips to Worlds, I’d earned fourteen medals, ten of them gold, which made me the most decorated American female gymnast ever.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
The dog that almost medaled at the Olympics.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
The U.S. has never medaled in women’s curling at the Winter Games, finishing fourth in 2002 and 2006.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 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
It wasn’t enough to keep the U.S. from heading home from the World Cup empty-handed, and after 87 years of waiting Canada has again medaled on one of basketball’s biggest stages.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 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
And so to the IAAF, now ruled by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s almost comically damning report to have medalled in cheating and corruption.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016
"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
If the Senate only medalled enough, that was all he asked.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various
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
The medaling teams averaged at least a 5.6.
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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