repechage
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Origin of repechage
1925–30; < French repêchage second chance, equivalent to repêch ( er ) to fish up again ( re- re- + pêcher to fish; Middle French, Old French pescher < Vulgar Latin *piscāre, Latin piscārī, derivative of piscis fish ) + -age -age
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Sinden will face a winner of the taekwondo repechage bouts for the chance to add bronze to his Olympic silver from three years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2024
Jones could still enter the repechage for bronze if Reljikj reaches the final.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2024
In the women's 400m repechage, Victoria Ohuruogu won her heat with a season's best 50.59 to qualify for the semi-finals.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
Less than an hour before, she had scored big in the final minute of a repechage to make it to the finals.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
Each of the losing crews would have to race in a repechage, a re-rowing, on August 13 and would need to win that heat to advance to the medal race the following day.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
In the men's keirin, both Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull progressed to the quarter-finals, though Turnbull had to go through the repechages.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024
He finished fourth in his heat of the men's single sculls race on Friday, and was due to race in the repechages on Saturday, but was withdrawn from the Games.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2021
They qualified in second place from the repechages, behind New Zealand.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2016
A further eight GB crews came through their semi-finals and repechages to reach Sunday's finals and join the five that qualified on Friday.
From BBC ● May 31, 2014
Friend and Divers now have to contest the repechages to stay alive in the event.
From Time Magazine Archive
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