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Polished effort It was a polished effort for a team looking to make amends for its 10th place showing at last year’s FIBA World Cup.
Dominant force in the sport He has been a dominant force in the sport for nearly a decade, having won the 2015 World Championships one year before making his Olympic debut.
An enticing matchup Hungary-Italy makes for an enticing Preliminaries Phase matchup as Hungary prevailed over the Settarossa, 7-6, in the FINA World Championships Quarterfinals in Gwangju.
A breakthrough performance Four years ago, Kristof Milak made his breakthrough performance in the 200m fly here in this pool in this event.
A handful of talented youngsters Among them there is a handful of really talented youngsters who may raise some eyebrows in June, namely the new wave of medley swimmers Balazs Hollo and Hubert Kos

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To push [the champions]… The People’s Republic of China took its first step to claiming men’s gymnastics team gold at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, as they pushed past reigning world champions Japan in Saturday’s (27 July) qualifying round.
To best the field… Much of China's massive margin came from a pristine performance from 2021 world all-around champion Zhang Boheng who bested the field with an 88.597 total.
To take a [commanding] lead… The Swiss took another commanding lead in the second set, riding the dominant of Huberli and the consistency of Brunner to a bronze medal.
To cap off [the tournament]… As good as Poland is, there was nothing it could do to stop the speakers inside the arena from blasting Les Marsaillas to cap off the Olympic volleyball tournament.
To fire a shot… She swam to the center about five meters from the goal and fired a shot that skipped past USA goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson to put her team ahead with one second remaining.
To give (a final) an interesting twist… Such contrasting styles gave this final an interesting twist.
To demonstrate a challenging spirit… The teams who have demonstrated the most challenging spirits, in the course of the Team finals.
To slip off… Leanne Wong (USA) started on beam in rotation 3 but unfortunately slipped off.
To take a [commanding] lead… Italy took a commanding lead by more than two marks heading into the final rotation, the floor exercise, in which they had the newly crowned European champion, Esposito and bronze medallist, Angela Andreoli.
To top the intrigue of… Greece and Croatia top the intrigue of Group B, where they are joined by Germany and Japan.
To face the adversary… The defending FINA World Champions from Italy will face their adversary from the 2019 world championship final in Spain.
To play a dangerous foe for someone… Canada also looks to play a dangerous foe for the Hungarians at home as the North American squad knocked out the Hungarians in their home pool at the FINA World Championships in 2017.
To add an extra flavour to… World records add an extra flavour to the World Championships.
To put on beautiful display… Kristof Milak Puts on Beautiful Display of Butterfly Domination to Delight of Budapest Crowd
To match someone’s speed and endurance… And it was apparent on the dive and the breakout that nobody would match Milak’s speed and endurance, and a two-minute long party ensued for the crowd.
To out-touch… The Dutch won bronze in comeback fashion to out-touch the teams from Great Britain (3:41.65) and Italy (3:41.67).
To establish an [early] lead… Americans Alexander Massialas, Nick Itkin, and Chamley-Watson established an early lead in the first third of the match to head into the fourth bout leading 13-10.
To tie the match… Every time Ukraine tied the match, their opponents would take the lead immediately after.

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Nail-biter It was a nail-biter as the home crowd was hoping to see Mkheidze take the first gold medal of the Games for France.
Nail-biting worthy The three nail-biting worthy matches were all shoved to five games, as each team desperately rallied to win.
A roller coaster of exercises and emotions From start to finish, the men’s individual all-around final at the 2023 World Championships was a roller coaster of strong exercises and emotions but in the end, it was Daiki Hachimoto who won gold!

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A noble of medals Despite this, he says he is not worried and has confidence in his players, who will form a good team and, naturally, battle for the most noble of medals.

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To join rare air [as a medallist]… Tola is a second-time Olympian — he took 10,000m bronze in Rio and now joins rare air as a medalist in two distance events.
To storm to a [gold]… The United States of America (USA) stormed to the gold medal on Friday in the Women's 4 x 100m relay final at the ongoing Paris Olympics.
To snatch [bronze]… The British pairing snatched bronze in dramatic circumstances, with Australia’s Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith faltering on their final dive to drop from third to fifth overall.
To capture a medal… Dauser was the current world silver medallist and Kovtun was inspired by capturing the all-around silver medal three nights ago.
To be eager for medals… 2022 world champion, Rebeca Andrade of Brazil qualified in fourth place for this final and was eager for the medals.
To vie for a medal… Romania and France both started nervously with a big error from Amalia Ghigoarta but it would be these two nations that would vie for the bronze medal throughout.
To clinch a medal… The Hungarians would go on to win the tournament with Montenegro clinching the bronze medals.
To pick up gold… Dressel, who trains with Ledecky at the University of Florida, picked up his first gold of the week in what is going to be another busy week of racing for him.

 

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To be denied a spot on the podium… Smetov completed his Olympic collection with the gold, after being denied the top spot on the podium at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, where he took silver and bronze respectively.
To be fractions of a second off the podium… She began to be reminiscent of her old self when she was just fractions of a second off the podium in Gwangju in the 400m and medalled frequently at the Europeans.

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To sit atop the standings… After two of three groups, China earned a 263.028 to sit atop the standings, some 2.434 ahead of Japan’s 260.594 total.
To defeat… Garrigos, who took the world title in 2023, defeated Georgia’s reigning world champion Giorgi Sardalashvili in his bronze-medal match, while Ryuji beat Türkiye’s Salih Yildiz.
To beat… Garrigos, who took the world title in 2023, defeated Georgia’s reigning world champion Giorgi Sardalashvili in his bronze-medal match, while Ryuji beat Türkiye’s Salih Yildiz.
To cement [oneself] among… Both have recently become powerhouses in the sport and were looking to cement themselves among the world's elite teams.
To give up a spot… Olympic champion Artem Dolgopyat of Israel qualified in first place for this final, and gave up his all-around spot to focus on this event.
To top the ranking… Simone topped the individual all-around rankings after qualifications and was dedicated to win the gold medal once again.
To climb up the ranking… Climbing all the way up the ranking and with a massive 84.998 points and 84.332 points clinching the silver and bronze medal!
To brush off [10sec] from… He showed tremendous improvement in the longer pool events and brushed off 10sec from his PB in the 1500m.
To lead the charge... Kristof Milak to lead the charge at the World Championships
To hang around in the [third] place… Finke, who trains with coach Anthony Nesty at the University of Florida, had been hanging around in third and fourth place for the majority of the race, staying in the pack that was led by the Ukraine’s Mykhailo Romanchuk

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An untouchable record The once-thought untouchable record by the greatest swimmer on the planet was in danger of falling on Saturday evening as Marchand turned a full second under world-record pace at 300 meters.

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To crash someone’s record… In 2019 he crashed Michael Phelps’ mighty WR at the FINA World Championships in Gwangju
To clock a record… He clocked ‘only’ an Olympic record, so by his own standards there was nothing to cheer for, not even his first Olympic gold
To lower someone’s record… Improving on his bronze from the 100 where he led at the 50m mark, Fink moved to fifth all-time with his swim, lowering Michael Andrew’s American record that stood at 26.52 from this year.

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To post a score… Boheng was impressive across the board with no score lower than the 14.333 he posted on the pommel horse in the opening rotation.
To steal the [final] point… Wang stole the final point over Sweden, and with that, China claimed its fifth straight gold medal in the men's team event.
To clinch a point… Jeoh Jihee and partner Shin Yubin clinched the first point in their tightly-contested doubles match, 3-2.
To tie the score at… But her shot was saved by Dutch keeper Laura Aarts, and Netherlands swam down the pool and scored again on the next possession to tie the score at 10.
To deliver a [world-rank leading] time… He delivered a world-rank leading time in Debrecen
To bump a score to… He bumped Japan's score up to 44 points, putting the pressure on Marini to earn 10 points to tie the match.

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An exciting showdown for the top honors The finals of the Free Combo event will prove to be an exciting showdown for the top honors.

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To claim a title… Topping the qualification results was Simone Biles (USA) and with her incredible pedigree on this event, she clearly was the favourite to win back the title she last claimed in 2019.
To wrestle back [the title]… Italy rounded out a storming European Gymnastics Championships in front of an adoring home crowd by wresting back their women's team title from defending champions Great Britain.
To begin the title defence… The defending FINA World Champions from Italy will begin their title defence from Group C.
To start a campaign for a title… The Americans will start their campaign for a fourth straight FINA World Championship title in the tournament by going up against Argentina, the Netherlands, and South Africa.
To add a title to the treasury… He went under the 15min mark for the first time in his career and added the 400m and 800m titles to his treasury.
To sweep all titles… In the new millennium apart from the relatively weak performances in 2003 and 2005, the question changed into a simple one: would anyone be able to prevent the Chinese from sweeping all titles?

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Booming acoustics Porte de La Chapelle Arena was filled to the brim with fans, who were loud with the booming acoustics at the venue.
Electric arena The Champ de Mars Arena was electric as one of the host nation's beloved sports, judo, took to the tatami at Paris 2024.
Throngs of fans Inside the historic Grand Palais, fencing got underway before throngs of fans, too.

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To be dotted with [beauty]… The course is dotted with Paris’ beauty: the Louvre, the, the Place de la Concorde, Jardin des Tuileries, the tomb of Napoleon and the Eiffel Tower.
To be filled to the brim with fans… Porte de La Chapelle Arena was filled to the brim with fans, who were loud with the booming acoustics at the venue.

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Standout names The standout names in this final were Lukas Dauser of Germany and Illia Kovtun of Ukraine, both of whom have won multiple medals on this apparatus in the past.

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To put together a victory… All that and taking the Olympic court once again admittedly got to Christie, who dropped the opening frame before putting together a 18-21, 21-11, 21-16 victory over the unseeded Carraggi.
To be crowned a champion…
To clinch victory… Marton dominated Serbia's Aleksandra Perisic 7-1 and 4-2 in the final at the Grand Palais, clinching victory with a kick to the body.
To blow the house down… Italy blew the house down with another rendition of their buoyant national anthem that had the arena rocking as they signed off the championships in style.
To pull off a close win over… Croatia pulled off a close win over the Greeks in Athens this year in FINA World League play.
To fly to a win… On the last day of the champs he flew to a 51.03 win in the 100m fly which is the second-best effort so far this season.

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