Once, I had sailed over the hurdles.
Official sanction and funding are only the first hurdles.
A runner passed me, then another and another. Over the hurdles they flew.
Robles was disqualified for pulling rival Liu Xiang out of the hunt for gold in the 110-meter hurdles.
It may take time, you may have many hurdles to get over, But what other recourse is there than resolution?
At the 1912 Olympics, André took part in the decathlon, the pentathlon, the high jump, the standing high jump and standing long jump and the 110m hurdles.
But after eight years, no licenses have been granted - largely, the United States says, because capital requirements, regulatory hurdles and other barriers have made such ventures impractical.
Liu Xiang, China's first male gold medalist in an Olympic track event, narrowly won the110 m hurdles at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix on Saturday, pipping former Olympic and world champion Allen Johnson of the United States.
But there are hurdles.
He is good at running and 110 meters hurdles.
How many people do you know who do the 400-meter hurdles?
The reviews, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.
But these visions face many hurdles. How can humans survive for months or years in the ultra-hostile environment of space? What, for instance, will they eat?
Granted there are huge hurdles to the idea: for one, if issuing Banks didn't cut rates voluntarily, it would then fall to the government to mandate lower credit card rates.
But there are some hurdles.
Liu Xiang failed to start his 110 metres hurdles first-round heat on Monday.
No one is more confident of clearing all the hurdles than Fujio Mitarai. He's chief executive of Canon Inc.
There are technical hurdles that have to be cleared and NASA would need to extend Discovery's planned 11-day mission a day, but if the stars align it could be the photo op of the year.
There are other hurdles to jump first.
Liu Xiang cruised into the men's 110m hurdles final with 13.82 seconds at the 18th Asian athletics championships Wednesday morning. The men's 110m hurdles final will be held Thursday evening.
"Thirteen seconds was more than enough for Liu Xiang to cross 10 hurdles and grab an Olympic gold medal, " ran a story by the state-run news agency Xinhua.
The school had track tryouts, and I made the team and learned how to jump the low hurdles.
Whether you're being bombarded with problems,responsibilities,even insurmountable hurdles,when looked at as a test,you always have a chance to succeed,in the sense of rising above that which is challenging you.
But they oppose any talk of Latvia joining until it has cleared the official hurdles for entry (which now seems impossibly far off).
In 2002 Liu broke Renaldo Nehemiah's 24-year-old world junior record for the 110m hurdles.
It's a must-watch video to see how two very different products are strategically tackling the hurdles before them (check out the video here or embedded below).
