Just like athletes and coaches, officials try hard to do the best job possible.
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It's the impact of a Department of Education that enforces Title IX, so athletes like -- (applause) -- so athletes like Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes and Lisa Leslie -- (applause) -- have a level playing field to compete and to win.
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But Phelps is not like most athletes and he certainly is not like most swimmers.
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Triathlete Dave Ciavarella says he, like most athletes, is very much against a ban.
Like many athletes, Mr. Lasorda has hawked a number of products over the years.
Interestingly, like professional athletes, often the heights reached early in a career will not be seen again as the years go by.
Like her athletes, her portraits of the Nuba were far less about the individuals she photographed than what their sculpted, muscular bodies represented.
Competitors prepared for the Bangkok finals like professional athletes.
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He is not like most athletes so when it came to the "typical recovery" we had to tear up the rule book and work out something which would work for him individually.
Which is why we're grateful when super athletes like Mo Farah come to the rescue.
Just like other top athletes, tennis players can apparently concentrate amid the din of the crowd.
Like many disabled athletes, Mr. Novak operates on a shoestring budget, without major endorsements.
It includes endorsements from good guy athletes like CC Sabathia, Derek Jeter and Josh Freeman.
Is it really surprising that athletes like Mr. Mickelson might be keeping an eye on the leaderboard?
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It was lighter, less cumbersome than the Nano, the other iPod aimed, in part, at athletes like me.
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Many professional athletes like to escape within videogame worlds after a big game or while on the road.
Current Saints player Chris Ivory and retired athletes like Will Clark and Darren Sharper are also scheduled to make appearances.
And that can be an income wrecker for celiac athletes like Bruce, making meal-planning a serious component of preparation for competition.
And for athletes like Zhang, winning gold is not just a personal mission, it is also an assertion of China's strength.
Like most other athletes I qualified to be here, I don't know about the other officials but I qualified to be here.
Kaka follows in the footsteps of past cover athletes like Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho (the Brazilian has appeared on the cover of seven EA games).
It has caught on with sports broadcasters who like to describe athletes as giving more than 100% despite the fact that this is completely impossible.
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Hannah Cockroft, who won the T34 100m and 200m at the Paralympics, believes athletes like her had inspired more people to take an interest in disability sport.
Fueled by a move by some sponsors to fully fund Paralympians, athletes like us were able to train longer, harder and with better access to facilities and coaching.
However, the IAAF's international deadline extends for nearly a month after that and Turnbull, like many Irish athletes, will be banking on being given more time to reach the Athens target.
The new game from THQ, adidas miCoach, will feature athletes like Howard, Kaka, Tyson Gay, Jessica Ennis, Ana Ivanovic and Eric Berry to serve as personal video trainers for gamers interested in sports like basketball, soccer, football, and tennis.
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Sometimes I like to tell athletes who are thirty or forty years younger than me that they are more likely to retire before me, to drive home the point that their sports careers probably will end while they are still young.
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On the opposite side you find athletes like 19-year-old Kenyan Pamela Jelimo who, having been thrust into sporting superstardom in her home country after winning 800m gold in Beijing, had a tough winter and is only just beginning to get back into shape.
Major league baseball players, like all professional athletes, are freaks of nature, and it takes the hard reality of a radar gun to illustrate the vastness of the gulf between the game that we played as kids and the game we watch them play now.
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