Accordingly, she is likely to earn coveted endorsements that have typically eluded female team-sport athletes.
Runners and multi-sport athletes can now view their performance information at-a-glance, making it easier to achieve their fitness goals.
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In short, the highest paid female athletes in the world are individual-sport athletes rather than members of a team.
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The sports world has seen its share of successful two-sport athletes.
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TomTom Multi-Sport includes all the features included in TomTom Runner, and also allows multi-sport athletes to track their distance, time, speed and other key metrics when they cycle or swim.
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The corporate appeal of baseball players in general is not quite the same as it is for individual sport athletes, basketball players, and even select football players if you review this list of top earning American athletes.
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Lottery funding is helping massively, bringing more people into the sport and allowing athletes to continue competing into adulthood.
Leagues and tournaments draw larger audiences to a sport, as athletes and teams start to be imagined as representing cities and, on a bigger stage, nations.
The group says it represents wrestlers from 180 countries, including many where wrestling is the national sport and the only sport that gives athletes a route to participation in the Games.
The group says it represents wrestlers from 180 countries, including many where wrestling is the national sport, and the only sport that gives athletes from those countries a route to participation in the Games.
But to be honest, it has to do with the overall culture here in Jamaica, wherein track and field is a major sport, and athletes, for instance, are trained from an early age about how to sprint.
It is a fast-paced sport, requiring finely tuned eye-hand-stick-puck co-ordination, executed at high speed, by some of the fittest athletes in sport.
You can search for athletes by sport and by country, and select individuals as favourites in the My Games section of the app.
Uday, even when he declined in favour, for a time controlled the state media and national sport, stupidly punishing athletes who did not win prizes.
Sport rules that limited athletes to one logo on their uniforms have recently changed, potentially offering the chance for two sponsors and nudging shoe companies to end the exclusivity they demand from athletes.
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All athletes in a sport, like track and field, become suspect even though the majority, he believes, are clean.
Even Cai Zhenhua, a former table-tennis star who is now a deputy sport minister, implied Chinese athletes suffered discrimination.
David Davies is among the British athletes who BBC Sport will be following during the countdown to the Beijing Olympics.
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And the sport, just as the athletes, comes in all shapes and sizes, from the 15-plus-hour Ironman distance, to the entry-level super-sprint distance.
However, rugby is no longer a college sport played only by casual athletes looking for a little sports competition and a lot of beer.
That is not written pejoratively, for almost all the great athletes in any sport were singularly driven individuals who didn't play well with others.
We started by using the total number of Electoral College votes, 538, and assigning the 36 Olympic sports with a proper share, based on the number of athletes in each sport.
In 1981-82, there were 146 Division I wrestling teams, with 3, 659 student-athletes participating in the sport.
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These are amateur athletes who are playing sport at its purest level and not locked into a multimillion-dollar professional contract.
Triathlon is an unpredictable sport - any one of 20 athletes could reasonably win one of the world's top races on a given day.
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Athlete brands are calculated by subtracting the average endorsement income of the top 10 athletes in a particular sport from what the athlete earns from endorsements.
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Aside from the intrinsic pleasure that many of athletes derive from their sport, friendly competition can be a huge motivator for them to put in their best.
More than athletes in any other sport, baseball players spend an inordinate amount of time standing around doing nothing and just waiting for something to break the monotony.
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But plenty of professional athletes excel at their sport while controlling the disease, and serving on the nation's high court should be no more of a challenge, Robertson said.
While each specific situation should be assessed, the tax footprints of professional athletes usually have several things in common, and professional athletes in the same sport usually have more in common.
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