Each of the Olympic athletes been training for months, even years. vs Each of the Olympic athletes has been training for months, even years.

Both phrases are correct, but they differ in verb tense. The first phrase uses 'been training' in the past perfect continuous tense, while the second phrase uses 'has been training' in the present perfect continuous tense. The choice between them depends on the context and the intended meaning.

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Each of the Olympic athletes been training for months, even years.

This phrase is correct but less common in this context.

This phrase uses the past perfect continuous tense to indicate an action that started in the past and continued up to a certain point in the past. It implies that the training has been ongoing for a while.

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It would be very irresponsible if the IOC endangered the lives of the Olympic athletes by holding the games in such an unpredictable region.
Look at the Olympic athletes who have won gold.
Boys, Billy and Meredith have been training for that for months.
Ray, you've been training for this comeback for months.
Such sanctions must go much further than the question of the Olympics, even though the Eastern Bloc countries behaved differently on the occasion of the Moscow Games.
Presumably we'll ban them, but then we'll have the specter of teenagers in their high schools gyms routinely out-performing the Olympic athletes.
It remains, therefore, unacceptable in my view that this dictatorship can count on so much tolerance and so much cooperation from the EU, but also from more or less the entire international community, even with regard to the organisation of the Olympic Games in 2008.
This unquestionable, I would say, erich, is the quality field of the Olympics.
He told us the assassins were members of the Olympic team.
It was part of the Olympics in Ancient Greece.
This will be like a kid out of the Olympics...
I waited outside of the Olympic for my father.
It also wants EU countries to clarify their position about whether to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Rhodes Scholar, clerk for Chief Justice Roberts, member of the Olympic badminton team.
This clear infringement of the Olympic Charter is unacceptable.
Of course you are getting back together because of the Olympics.
I would like also to reflect on the imminence of the Olympic Games.
Ancient Greece bestowed on humankind among other things the joy of the Olympic Games.
I would not rule out a full boycott of the Olympics.
Mr President, you also mentioned the question of the Olympic Games in China.

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each of the olympic athletes has been training for months, even years.

Each of the Olympic athletes has been training for months, even years.

This phrase is correct and commonly used in this context.

This phrase uses the present perfect continuous tense to indicate an action that started in the past and is still continuing in the present. It emphasizes the duration of the training up to the present moment.

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Last updated: October 26, 2024

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each of the olympic athletes been training for months, even years.

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Each of the Olympic athletes been training for months, even years. vs Each of the Olympic athletes has been training for months, even years.