"It will be good to be in the podium and score a minimum 15 points, " he said.
Having been on full funding since her bronze medal-winning performance at the Athens Olympics, Sotherton was listed among a group of nine athletes in the "podium relay" category.
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She has earned a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Games in the Giant Slalon, 2 silver medals in the 2012 Winter Games, 7 World Cup Championships and 4 podium finishes in the World Championships of Downhill Skiing.
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CSC's Sastre was protecting a one minute 34 seconds lead over fourth-placed Cadel Evans, a noted specialist against the clock, with other places on the podium also in the balance.
The 27-year-old Tweddle finally reached the podium in her third trip to the Games, a fitting career finish for the greatest British gymnast of all time.
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Then, like the Incas, Indian field hockey vanished from the podium, in 2008 missing the Olympics altogether.
Michael Sweeney and Wayne Kirwin were second and third in the first Supersport race while Sweeney and Alistair Kirk completed the podium in race two.
The 29-year-old Englishman needs only to finish on the podium in Sunday's 71-lap contest to secure the world title.
The Finn, who has not topped the podium in five races, did his best to keep his car on the racing line but qualified in a distant sixth - more than a second adrift of Hamilton.
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Ferrari have failed to win since Bahrain, with the team only claiming two podium places in the subsequent six races - Felipe Massa in Australia and Alonso in Spain.
Though limousines are their rides of necessity, either candidate would certainly be able to connect with voters in traditional auto-driven towns like Lordstown, Ohio or Kenosha, Wisconsin by pulling up to the podium in some genuine Detroit iron.
The 38-year-old is only the third Briton to achieve a podium finish in the non-stop three-month round-the-world race.
Michal Martikan of Slovakia took gold in the men's single canoe slalom , taking top spot on the podium 12 years after claiming victory in the Atlanta Games.
The 29-year-old Maze has achieved 1, 844 points across all races in all alpine skiing's disciplines, finishing on the podium 18 times in a season marked by incredible consistency.
If the same holds true for this race, expect Debate 3.0 to take over the podium in 2016.
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Tom Coughlin stepped to a podium in the JW Marriott hotel in Indianapolis shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning.
Raikkonen came in second for Lotus ahead of teammate Romain Grosjean in a repeat of the podium placings from last year's race.
It is a very special moment first time you get the pole position or reach the podium in a hard fought race.
There, on a podium in the sand, they bid a golden farewell.
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Tim Brabants of Britain has won the men's 1, 000-meter kayak singles , returning to the podium for the first time in eight years.
And so we'll keep making that point in telephone calls from the podium, maybe fly a Cessna overhead with a banner -- something like that.
President Obama today took to the podium in the White House Briefing Room to discuss the state of the economy and answer a few questions from reporters.
Most athletes have spoken to their new boss at least twice, with Okoro revealing she had been asked to write down what she needs to get on the podium in 2012 - including her projected times and objectives.
The U.S. men won't be alone in trying to stand atop the Olympic podium this weekend.
Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy himself addresses the General Assembly right after Obama, and they will certainly have a chance to speak together in the cozy waiting area just behind the General Assembly podium.
Back in 1938 the Brotherhood's founder Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian schoolteacher with a knack for organisation, took the podium at an Islamic gathering in Cairo and proposed stitching together the nascent states that Europe's colonial powers had carved out of the Ottoman empire.
Meanwhile, being embroiled in the odd security row didn't stop upstart Huawei from hitting the smartphone podium for the first time with 27.2 million handsets sold in Q4 2012, a 73.8 percent jump over last year -- but a distant third behind Samsung's 64.5 million units and 43.5 million for Apple.
Amateur speakers often try to reinvent themselves on the podium or in front of a TV camera.
Pitt completed the podium places in race one, while Haga went some way to make up for his earlier disappointment with third place in the second race.
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