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How to use the word Athletic in a Sentence?

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Lolo Jones is the greatest athlete to ever come out of LSU because Lolo Jones got it done. Joe Burrow got it done a couple of years ago, but Lolo Jones is way more athletic than Joe Burrow is.

– Tom Pennington/Getty Images O’Neal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The science shows that anyone who has gone through male puberty retains male anatomical differences that provide an athletic advantage, the World Athletics Council was unwilling to compromise the integrity of the female category without evidence that these male advantages can be ameliorated.

– World Athletics

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s going to cause teams to be more athletic, you won’t be able to put just anybody here, anybody there and depend on the shift to make up for whatever deficiencies that they might have.

– Dusty Baker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that weighed really heavy on her soul. I think she felt really guilty. I think that really broke her. Over Thanksgiving, she had priests coming, trying to have an exorcism of the house and having prayer services, he’s a strong person, athletic. This has been tough. It’s going to be about three or four more months before he’s really back to normal.

– Alexandra Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Traditionally, male athletes have to be very popular before they get a national brand endorsement. But they’re popular because of their success on the field, not because of a meme, linking up with Dieunerst Collin to the fam shows that there is a change in this thinking. Popularity does not have to be based on athletic success anymore. Because of social media, young athletes can come into college already having a brand, which can be attractive to companies.

– Louis Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have zero tolerance for any form of bias or hate on our worksite. Anti-bias training is included in our onboarding process and reiterated during site-wide meetings, we are suspending all operations onsite in order to provide another series of these trainings and conversations for all staff and workers. OBAMA BREAKS GROUND IN CHICAGO FOR MASSIVE PRESIDENTIAL CENTER PROJECT The Obama Presidential Center under construction on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Chicago's Jackson Park neighborhood. ( Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Lakeside Alliance is offering a reward of $ 100,000 for help, according to NBC 5. The Obama Presidential Center will reportedly include a museum, public library, athletic center, children’s playground and test kitchen. The Obama Presidential Center is being financed mostly through private donations.

– Lakeside Alliance

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What are the 4 stages of life? 1) Moral stage, this stage is the most vital of all the stages. This stage is devoted entirely to becoming a just human being. There's always room for improvement, never stop improving yourself. 2) Academic stage, this stage is devoted entirely to education, to becoming the smartest version of yourself that you can be. Never stop learning. 3) Athletic stage, always take care of your health. Always try to be healthy. Be as healthy and athletic as you can be. 4) Enjoy the fruits of your labor stage, this is the stage where you get as much peace and happiness as you can from all your hard labor.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

First, she’s an athlete. I have ties with Russia because of my athleticism and my athletic career, it’s nothing political. It’s all about sports.

– Roy Jones Jr.

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're not an athletic bunch. But John( John Legend) is so proud, everyone's like' Drop the bat !' You have to explain every part. Like, of course, he wouldn't know to drop the bat. But it's so sweet.

– Chrissy Teigen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This young man, he was athletic, and he was big. He had no way of knowing, this is going to be an issue of a lack of supervision and lack of training. A straight-up negligence case.

– Bob Hilliard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have always admired the Maryland basketball program, and being named the new head coach of one of the biggest brands in college basketball is a tremendous honor, thank you to President (Darryll) Pines and (athletic director) Damon Evans for trusting me to re-energize this proud program as we look to galvanize our passionate fan base with a gritty, hard-working style of basketball. Having coached against Maryland several times and at XFINITY Center, I know how Terp fans feel about their team and understand their expectations.

– Kevin Willard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My two daughters are both highly competitive athletes, my oldest daughter has earned a full athletic scholarship to play Division I tennis. So I’m very familiar with the work these girls and women put in to compete at these high levels.

– Steve Gray

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m athletic, I make plays, I’m the most winningest quarterback in almost all of college football, and I think I can translate over to the NFL… At the end of the day, I’m a winner, and I don’t think anyone else is gonna tell me any different or make me feel any different.

– Desmond Ridder

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The points in the paint — they just manhandled us in the second half, it is a battle to play these guys for 40 minutes. They're so stinking athletic in transition. I think they're one of the top teams in the country.

– Wayne Tinkle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was a thin kid, muscular and strong. I beat all of my friends in almost any athletic competition and routinely won races. Hell, I even played football with the boys and held my own. The day someone I loved made me question my once capable body was the day that my love-hate relationship began with myself and with diet culture.

– Gretchen VanOstrand

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

College athletes meet the definition of employee under labor law, they are highly skilled in their sport, paid scholarships and stipends to perform athletic services, and they perform their work under extensive control of their employer. These athletes deserve every right afforded to them under labor laws — just like other hard-working Americans.

– Ramogi Huma

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman.

– Tommy Curry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fact that they switched him out of general care to the athletic program as if they [ athletes ] were sort of disposable people says a lot about how the institution thought about how to deal with the problem person : they value athletics as institution, but the people who participate in athletics and make some money are disposable.

– Jon Vaughn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Allowing biological males to compete in women’s events not only reduces opportunities for females, it undermines the entire rationale behind single-sex competition. It’s time for athletic governing bodies to stand up for women’s sports.

– The IWLC and IWF

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you are looking for information on cis gender athletes, you'd never use studies on non-athletic trans people, you just wouldn't do that. It's just that we don't have any data ontrans athletes. So I think you have to take the results with a certain grain of salt.

– Joanna Harper

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jackson State Tigers won its first Southwestern Athletic Conference title since 2007. Hunter was expected to sign with Florida State, Sanders ’ alma mater. He gave a non-binding verbal commitment back in March and was considered to be a key player during this year’s recruiting class. The Seminoles have n’t won a national championship since 2013, and The Seminoles have four straight losing seasons under two different head coaches. Jackson State Tigers head coach Deion Sanders speaks with Jackson Deion Sanders( 2) during the Orange Blossom Classic game between the Florida A and M Rattlers and the Jackson State Tigers Sept. 5, 2021 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL. ( Nick Tre. Smith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP ‘ We’re going to shock the country.

– Deion Sanders

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Baylor is really good. They are very athletic, and they got us sped up, we haven’t seen that kind of pressure yet. ... It was just a little bit of a shock, especially coming out in the first half.

– Central Arkansas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The thing that was so disturbing was it was children, whether they are high school, elementary school or middle school – they’re children. The administration, the coaches, the athletic director – they had to know it.

– Melissa Swanson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Concurrently, National Women are reporting these new allegations to the The Athletic Center for SafeSport for investigation. A safe and secure work environment is a top priority for National Women Soccer League and National Women Soccer League collective ownership.

– The Athletic

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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