And as you know, in big-time Olympic sports like track and field, image is everything.
The 12-year-old watch brand is an infant when it comes to the venerable world of the Swiss watch industry, but it has grown up at lightning speed with technical innovations and partnerships with athletes in sports ranging from track and field to soccer to auto racing.
Loh, late last year announced that eight varsity programs would be cut in order to produce a leaner athletic budget, a kindly way of saying that the school would rather save struggling football and basketball programs than keep varsity sports such as track and swimming, in which the vast majority of participants graduate.
The athletes are of mixed ages and abilities, and will be competing in a range of sports from pool to track and field events.
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The earnings window for athletes in sports like gymnastics, track and field, wrestling, and figure skating is very small, both in terms of the number of athletes that will cash in as well as the length of time they have to cash in.
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But this is Under Armour stock not an investment in a sports bar there is a track record to project against.
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David Evans, assistant head teacher at William Parker Sports College, said the track was one of a few not directly owned by the local authority.
Knight, a former University of Oregon track star, founded Blue Ribbon sports in 1964, selling Japanese running shoes out of the trunk of his car at track meets on the weekends while teaching accounting at Portland State.
The biggest fans of this are sports nuts who want to keep track of all the scores or their fantasy players.
Hastings Athletics Club, which uses the track at William Parker Sports College, said facilities may close within a couple of years.
"We've had some delays, for different reasons in some stadiums, but construction is on track, " Brazil sports minister Aldo Rebelo said in an interview.
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Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
It is particularly attractive for sports enthusiasts and athletes who want to track their performance.
Ligety will spend the offseason hanging out with friends, taking part in other sports such as mountain biking and keeping track of the progress of his favorite basketball team -- the Utah Jazz.
Spurs' plan had involved knocking down most of the structure and rebuilding it without the running track, instead rebuilding the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace.
Though Nike is well known for its ties to basketball and running because of its links to such sports icons as Michael Jordan and the late track star Steve Prefontaine, it also has years of experience creating products for football players.
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In Ghana, for example, Vega has sponsored schools, clinics and sports teams, most notably the national teams in track and field and boxing.
Sports Illustrated magazine used to devote major coverage to track.
Oversized butler-serviced rooms overlook the horseracing track and golf course at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club.
Finacially, United continue to reach new audiences and according to Austin Houlihan, Senior Manager in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, the club is on track to overhaul the Spaniards.
In another first, NBC Olympics Live Extra will provide multiple concurrent streams for select sports, such as gymnastics (each apparatus), track and field (each event), and tennis (up to five courts).
Others are upset at the prospect that the racing track in northern New Jersey's Meadowlands Sports Complex may close, as the state is no longer willing to subsidise tracks that are in the red.
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The track at Whistler, which is shared by the sports of luge, skeleton and bobsleigh, already has a reputation as one of the fastest - and most dangerous - in the world.
Dr. VINT: What we have tried to identify in track and field and some of our more explosive sports are ways in which we can help our athletes be more powerful and more explosive, particularly in the first several meters of the performance.
You would be hard pressed to find a motor sports enthusiast that would turn down a few days at the race track.
Field hockey coach and school sports director Charmaine Koekemoer said she was driving the bus past the track at around 10.15 a.m. on the Sunday morning when members of her Hoerskool Voortrekker girls hockey team started shouting "There's Oscar, there's Oscar!"
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