individual athlete

collocation in English

meaningsofindividualandathlete

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individual
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us
/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
existing and considered separately from the other things or people in ...
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athlete
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæθ.liːt/us
/ˈæθ.liːt/
a person who is very good at sports or physical exercise, especially one who competes in ...
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(Definition ofindividualandathletefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It must be based on the natural abilities of theindividualathleteor team, and never on performance enhanced by pharmaceutical or technical aids.
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Anyone involved in competitive sport realises the importance of a coach to anindividualathlete.
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Anindividualathleteonly manipulates 1 apparatus at a time.
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The key to successful training is to match the training loads to what theindividualathletebenefits from.
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He believed that eachindividualathletewas different and tailored different workout routines to different athletes.
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Doing well in international competitions is also important in itself, as well as being wonderful for the individual athletes who participate and win.
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There is still time for individual sporting associations and individual athletes to change their minds and to decide not to compete.
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Individual athletes receive enormous prizes, some of which are money prizes.
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There is every indication that sporting bodies and individual athletes have overwhelmingly rejected it.
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Among many grants, it contributed sums of £39,000, £40,000 and £30,000 to individual athletes who competed in 1996 and 2000.
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However, individual athletes excelled themselves and built on the modest support that was already available to them.
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A total of 1,881 individual athletes won medals.
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The individual athlete's disability is not taken into consideration in determining the individual's classification placement.
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However, individual athletes are the best prevention against their own injuries.
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The athletics program's success started from the top and trickled down to the individual athletes.
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Medals were won by 450 individual athletes from 26 countries; 19 of those countries won at least one gold.
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Some of the individual athletes came up with ideas to further their training while at sea.
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Countries send national teams to each competition, consisting of individual athletes and teams that compete in a wide variety of sports.
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They were structured this way so that individual athletes could participate in all of the games.
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Individual athletes, and athletes from incomplete teams are excluded from scoring.
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