triathlon

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Recent Examples of triathlon Though the friend and Kocher muscled through the bumpy quarter mile, Beckley refused for the sake of his brand new expensive triathlon bike. Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Dec. 2025 Erica Fox was a swimmer and triathlete who had done two half-Ironmans and numerous other triathlons and who for almost 20 years did an annual triathlon called Escape From Alcatraz, her father said. Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025 Yendle had previously received apologies from soccer team Borussia Dortmund, and triathlon organizer Ironman, for creating similar videos. Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025 The triathlon team also missed the European Championships, as did several other teams across disciplines. Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for triathlon
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Noun
  • The biathlon will take place in the Antholz valley, about 30 miles north of Cortina, near the border with Austria.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Jan. 2026
  • At the 2022 Winter Games, Masters stole the show with one of the most impressive performances for any Paralympian or Olympian in history, winning seven medals across that year’s cross-country skiing and biathlon events.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Today’s birthdays: Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bill Toomey is 87.
    Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Corbo, a first-team All-Dade player at Palmer, went to Ole Miss as a walk-on track athlete, training in the javelin throw as a freshman and in the decathlon as a sophomore.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Jim Thorpe won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games for pentathlon and decathlon.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The Barbara Hood Memorial Student Scholar Athlete Award winner also took home first at the Div. 3 championship in the 100-meter hurdles (14.68), the 55-meter hurdles (8.35) and the pentathlon (3,258).
    Brian Roach, Boston Herald, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • The news of this partnership comes a little over a month before the NCAA March Madness tournament is set to kick off.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This mission hits a wall when the local gaming authority suspends all Hong Kong player accounts just weeks before a key tournament selection stage.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Giants wide receiver and the heptathlon world champion first went public with their relationship in November 2024, when Hall included a photo of them hugging in an Instagram carousel.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • At the Great Southwest Classic in 2018, Hall’s club coach was with her in Albuquerque as the 17-year-old Valor Christian senior-to-be shattered the high school national record in the heptathlon.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Microsoft is a large investor in OpenAI, but there’s growing competition in the AI space, especially from Google’s Gemini.
    Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Uhlaender, a five-time Olympian, was hoping to qualify for her sixth Winter Games, but lost the chance before competition even began in Lake Placid due to Canada's withdrawals.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • To accommodate both, the tourney moved up a month on the calendar, coinciding with the second week of the Australian Open.
    Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The play-in tourney features the seventh-through-10th-place teams competing for the final two playoff seeds in each conference.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Jessi Ebben, who previously ran for the western 3rd Congressional District, Ashland attorney Paul Wassgren and former Marathon County GOP chair Kevin Hermening are the other Republicans in the contest.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Officers arrived to find a large group of people were watching over a pen holding cash and drinking alcohol in the backyard where roosters were engaged in battle while a referee monitored the contest, the Sheriff's Office said.
    Scott Butler, Florida Times-Union, 28 Jan. 2026

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“Triathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triathlon. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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