Sentences with 'athletes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word athletes and other words derived from it.
• « When the temperature is high, athletes must necessarily resort to sponging and special sachets of water provided by the field assistants. »
• « Wars were temporarily suspended and all Greek polis agreed to allow athletes to travel with safe passage to participate in the games, partly because the Olympics were dedicated to Zeus, the chief Greek god. »
• « The USSR controlled the governments of all the countries of Eastern Europe, with the odd exception of Yugoslavia, and had considerable influence almost everywhere else in the world. Its factories produced military hardware at an enormous rate, even its scientists proved equal to anything the West could produce, and its athletes often beat all comers in the Olympics every four years. »