He is currently 15th in the World Cup standings and the veteran snowboarder said he feels confident he can be in the running for an Olympic medal.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

In addition to Bolt, who claimed the title last year and Federer, who has won it four times in the past, Ethiopian track star Kenesisa Bekele, Spanish cycling champion Alberto Contador, Argentinian football hero Lionel Messi and motor cycling's Valentino Rossi of Italy are also in the running.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

In eighteen ninety-seven,the word came to mean the huge groups of people running or stampeding to Alaska and the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

This can be anything from walking or running against the resistance of water, to doing jumping jacks in the water.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

But forty years later, "Sesame Street" is the longest running children's television program in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

"Mister President, the only hot war we've got running at the moment is the one in Vietnam."

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He started the first running club in America and wrote a book about jogging for fitness.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

It is alive with flowers. In the center is a statue with water running from it.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

There came a sound of running feet in the hall below,then: "Muvver!--it's Muvver come back!"

VOA: special.2010.05.15

These Taos Indians live in the ancient adobe rooms as their ancestors did centuries ago -- without any running water or electric power for lights.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The workers lived in camps that were often dirty and had no running water.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

In the pictures, the men are running up the hill quickly in straight lines.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

It is still the longest-running musical play in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

So,the high costs in terms of running a health system are exacerbated by the inability to repair existing equipment.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01