And then came that final sprint.

Funnily enough, though, as we are told we have five minutes left together, she decides to wax lyrical about him: a final sprint, with the exit beckoning.

In the last kilometer we changed places many times, the final sprint was difficult for me.

But the front group bunched together again for the final sprint.

He could manage only seventh in the uphill final sprint, however.

For example, hill sprints with a walking recovery, or mountain biking, which involves a great deal of physical work on mixed terrain.

From hill sprints to sickly gel packs, training for a marathon has become a complicated business.

Include a variety of exercises such as step-ups, push-ups or hill sprints.

This week, you will be playing sport three times and undertaking one session of hill sprints.

Outdoors, hill sprints and fartlek running - performed at varying speeds - have replaced the old-fashioned jog and even the cycling commute to work has become a daily time trial.

Their average sprint distance per game last season was just over 1,300 metres.

The 1.4km track would have a 200m run-off, giving a measured course of a straight 1.2km - a few yards less than the sprint distance of six furlongs.

The sprint distance may also be held in the forest, when it would be called a forest sprint as opposed to an urban sprint.

Even so, at a sprint distance of six and one half furlongs not suited to her long legs, she closed fast, losing by only a head.

It was a first win this year for a filly now returned to sprint distances after failing to stay in two classics.

Behind her, by 24 hours, was the intense disappointment of being disqualified the previous day in the team sprint event: that horrible spectre of failure.

He also competed in the sprint event but was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

She won a silver medal in the sprint event.

She placed 8th in the long distance, and 14th in the sprint event.

Since 2003, the richest and most prestigious 70m sprint event on the professional running calendar was named in his honour.

He started a sprint race between the two teams' mascots along the length of the touchline.

Yet there are no bald patches or paunches, and they race around as if they're in training for a sprint race.

The teams had previously said that they would not stand in the way of the idea, but since running simulations of the sprint race, they have become more sceptical.

A few years ago my daughter took part in a sports day sprint race at her state primary school.

The biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race, most commonly a sprint race.

The pair claimed the tandem sprint title to go with their tandem time-trial and pursuit crowns.

Her sixth and most dramatic world sprint title yesterday told an exceedingly emotional tale, the conclusion of which was that there are some almighty highs that remain.

She successfully defended her sprint title in 1998.

He also won the sprint title in 1977 and 1981.

The same year he won the world sprint title.