"I found myself smiling in the starting blocks, which is rare in the 400-meter, " Pistorius said.
With his times from 1936, Jesse Owens wouldn't get near today's Olympic starting blocks.
Not everyone on this list is trying to get out of the starting blocks.
The bottle landed on the track about 10 meters behind the runners, who were already in the starting blocks.
Agreement of interim government builds starting blocks for a better way of life.
Kersee has designed Felix's training to improve her burst out of the starting blocks, her conditioning and her top-end speed.
But the struggle simply to reach the starting blocks of negotiation is also a reminder of the scale of the task in hand.
The world's fastest runners will crouch in the starting blocks at the Olympics in Beijing this summer, but Oscar Pistorius will not be among them.
Bolt's charisma on the starting blocks sets him apart from previous generations of sprinters, who would take a far more serious approach to race preparations.
When China's heavily hyped and widely marketed track star Liu Xiang limped away from the starting blocks earlier this week, his legions of fans weren't the only ones let down.
Like a basketball player getting ready for a jump ball, or a sprinter in the starting blocks, every able-bodied passenger needs to be ready to move, and to act definitively, not tentatively.
Swansea East AM Mike Hedges asked Mr Lewis to look at the provision of co-operative housing as an affordable model of home ownership and Mr Lewis confirmed that various schemes were "on the starting blocks".
As in Jamaica and other Caribbean ports, sprinting is a popular pastime in Grenada but James and Bartholomew explained that it's nearly impossible to post blazing 100- or 200-meter times on grass, which is too slippery from the starting blocks.
And Nike knew how to market that appeal -- with an ad in 2011 that showed the sprinter starting from blocks and the caption "I am the bullet in the chamber" together with Nike's "Just do it" slogan and logo.
Bolt was clearly up out of the blocks before the starting gun -- which under next year's new rules would have disqualified him automatically.
Berry and one of the other women, whom police say Ariel Castro held captive, disappeared from the same neighborhood, within five blocks of each other, starting in 2003.
Starting forward Rakeem Christmas, tops on the team with 40 blocks, has also heard his share of whistles.
Bolt's reaction time was typically slow, with Gatlin, Blake and Gay faster out of the blocks, but the legs in lane seven were starting to drive.
Thanks to the director Marco Tullio Giordana, we are granted access to the Caratis, a fictional Roman clan, whose story, starting in 1966, covers more than thirty years and shows in two blocks of three hours.
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