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In England he won European silverware for both Liverpool and Chelsea but they were blue ribband clubs.

TYSON Fury may straddle the globe as world champion of boxing's blue ribband heavyweight division, but he splits opinion here in Britain like a hammer to a watermelon.

"This is one of the blue ribband event and everyone wants to be hosting an Ashes Test match.

Starting at Silverstone on April 12, the race series travels to Spa in Belgium, then to the blue ribband Le Mans 24 Hours in France and on to Germany's Nurburgring, before going global with races in America, Japan, China and the Middle East.

Come the Blue Ribband road race and the GB team, who we were told would see Froome to victory - and who all week had been telling us how they were going to do it - had dissolved in the rain.

(21) Being seen in possession of long lengths of ribbon could prove damning evidence in treason trials: Stephen College supposedly gave a "blue Ribband" to one prosecution witness "to put in [his] Hat," and "had a great Quantity," "(40) or 50 Yards of that Ribband," to distribute to supporters.

That followed a perfect record at last year's world championships, while in Beijing only Australia's Matthew Mitcham denied them on the 10-metre platform - diving's blue ribband competition.

The possibility of a blue ribband tie in croker will drive them on.

The villanelle was extremely admired by the French poets of the Parnasse, and one of them, Theodore de Banville, compared it to a ribband of silver and gold traversed by a thread of rose-colour.

(4:380) Olivia displays her injury, binding her twisted wrist with a 'broad black ribband', a proud badge of her struggle and of her loss.

He wrote that "It is customary among the Traders when ever they see one of these meadels to honour his Majesty's armes with a new Silk Ribband by good luck I had as much my own propperty as did this to my satisfaction." (7)

The blue ribband K1 class went to Cellbridge's Gary Mawer, who enjoyed his sixth victory in the event.

Jedburgh's Jethart Games has long been considered the Blue Ribband meeting on the pro footracing circuit.

Here,(3) by 'Indicatorium' or 'Index', is meant a fillet or ribband inserted in a Book for the purpose there mentioned.