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“The heptathlon gold medal” (there is only one). “The high jump gold medal” if we know whether a man or woman won it. “A high jump gold medal” if we don’t. Some things are tricky because of facts. There will be two boxing bronze medals in every weight class. There will be nine of each medal in the rowing competition with eight rowers.
The dictionary meaning for bestow: to give something as an honour or present. Why it is said "The trophy was bestowed upon the winner"? Why not The "trophy was bestowed to the winner"? I have one
Sam gave the Medal to his friend. Here, as far as i am concerned, I cannot only say “Sam gave the Medal” and stop. I should mention the indirect object “friend”. But why hand over can be put in a sentence without indirect objects. For instance, Hand the money over : which means give me the money.
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Other speakers have some kind of lenition, but feel like they hear a kind of distinction between lenited /t/ and lenited /d/, at least for some words. It's hard in most cases to describe what exactly the distinction is: it may be most salient in its effect on the preceding vowel sound. See the Language Log post Metal v. medal, by Mark Liberman.
It is virtually certain (that) she will win the gold medal. There are also certain expressions such as "face certain death" or "face certain defeat" where "sure" is virtually unknown . As a determner and pronoun, "certain" is used in expressions such as "a certain Mr Smith", "certain issues" (= "some issues"), "certain of the soldiers", etc - where "sure" is impossible.
I was reading Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending, when I encountered this line:. And I thought of a cresting wave of water, lit by a moon, rushing past and vanishing upstream, pursued by a band of yelping students whose torch beams crisscrossed in the dark.