How To Use Champion In A Sentence
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Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship.
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Confident, tanned and talkative, he looked the epitome of the champion he longs to be again.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking at Yankee Stadium (home of the world champion Yankees) it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up.
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The recent Australian National Championships and Olympic swimming trials give a strange story to the world of swimming.
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The former Olympic champion may now have been overtaken, but a debt of gratitude is owed to her by the vibrant new star of her sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chuck Greenberg, CEO of the Texas Rangers, slammed New York Yankees fans for their actio ns during the American League Championship Series in an interview on ...
Chuck Greenberg, Texas Rangers CEO, Blasts Yankees Fans On Radio
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Some archaeologists have been championing the culture of pre-Roman Britain for some time and the Shropshire road may confirm that traders were bringing back continental innovations to add to existing native achievements in art and engineering.
Letters: Native culture of pre-Roman Britain
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These are the basic exercises that have been used to build championship physiques year after year.
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Tyson pays his respects to the last guy who beat him and Britain's undisputed world heavyweight champion.
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It includes two passes over the classic Whaanga Coast test, which hugs the Tasman Sea coastline and is rated by many as the best stage in the entire championship.
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With this performance, she has notched up her third championship title.
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February is seldom a month to bring many people much cheer but this year for Championship clubs on the breadline, it will be tougher than ever.
Chelsea's £50m deal for Fernando Torres worries Uefa | Digger
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While he was chief inspector of schools parents could be sure that they had a powerful champion of high standards.
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It is sad, very sad to watch a great champion being beaten in a one-sided fight where he cannot offer any meaningful counterpunch, which is what boxing is all about.
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It would certainly explain in part why the 31-year-old Watson took so long to win his first PGA Tour event, the 2010 Travelers Championship (he defeated his Ryder Cup captain, Corey Pavin, in a play-off).
Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson add power to USA's Ryder Cup bid
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The three-time world champion only resumed playing last month after a six-month ban on disrepute charges.
The Sun
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To be a champion, skill is not enough you have to have the right temperament.
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It was a pleasure to present the awards last Friday and to see so many adults attend to show their appreciation and support for these champions of literature.
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He has been playing championship tennis for three years now.
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His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
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Schumacher takes on rally drivers in Race of Champions on BBC
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He entered a competition in which one of the prizes was to have me as a champion.
Times, Sunday Times
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He showed his athletism by becoming the Bearkats 'all-time leader in total offense with 6,159 yards and finished second in the nation in the Football Championship Subdivision with 354.2 total yards per game as a senior.
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They just can't help spending our money on receptions for anything from the synchronised swimming team to the world-acclaimed left-handed marlies champions.
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He won nine English Derbies, three Arc de Triomphes and 11 jockeys' championships.
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Ancelotti will be anxious that the 23-year-old Brazil international, who will be cup-tied in the Champions League, is joining a club who can still realistically retain the Premier League title.
Chelsea set to seal £21.5m deal for Benfica defender David Luiz
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The best golf of the day had been produced by the boy champion, Tim Baxter, playing off scratch.
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He had never finished higher than fifth in an international championship.
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Both as a pointer to the future and as a spectacle in its own right, the Championships have produced a quality of football that had at least one viewer occasionally leaping from his armchair to applaud the action.
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Getty Images At last year's European championships, Jessica Ennis won the women's heptathlon.
The Sad State of British Track
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At first glance, that mightn't seem very favourable as many top players like to take a break after a major championship.
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From the time the draws were made Sean Dempsey had targeted this game as the crucial tie of the championship.
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The championship was captured by the Danes.
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This is about football -- about two six-team divisions and a title playoff to share the spotlight on what has become championship Saturday.
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Alex McLeish's side came off second best to the Russian champions in the first leg of their final qualifying round tie.
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The 2002 World Champion gold medallists advanced with the fastest time from the first semi-final.
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She is an uncontrived champion of the Scots language.
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The championship game was a rematch of last year's final, as it pitted the two top seeds against each other.
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It was foolish of you to pick a fight with a heavyweightboxing champion!
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Sometime snooker world champion, perpetually in the tabloids for his substance-assisted high jinks, he's the quintessence of Essex wide-boy.
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He has twice been crowned road race world champion, most recently in 2002 when he snuck up the inside of the bunch to outsprint his rivals in Lisbon.
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They must be firm favourites now to win the Championship.
Kevin Keegan - Black and White
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In his six years as player-manager and manager he added three championships and two FA Cups.
Kenny Dalglish: Liverpool's king goes in search of another crown | David Lacey
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The club is now looking forward to the forthcoming Wharfedale Championships and is hoping to shatter last year's record trophy haul.
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The boxing champion was finally counted out.
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She has won four major championships in the last five years.
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But who, if anyone, will become the first overseas player to score a century on his championship debut for the county?
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Then Pakistan edged past the reigning world champions Holland 2-1.
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As a scientist in the R&D arm of the US Justice Department, Shubin championed a carbon-based liquid polymer called Kevlar that could be woven into nylon to create a fabric vest resistant to bullets at close range.
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Wonderful for one so young, Noel will be eligible for that championship for two more years.
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In defeating the champions, Robson's team extended their unbeaten run to 13 matches since May.
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One of her main schtick is that she supposedly is a big champion'er of full disclosure.
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Bias cut is the champions, one after another of the flow lines to emphasize certain sexy body parts.
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It is enshrined in draft legislation sponsored by Mario Segni, who championed the cause of electoral reform.
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If gameness won fights, Paulie would still be a champion.
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The following year, Garcia took a one-stroke lead to the 70th hole of the PGA Championship but Harrington again thwarted Garcia's bid to break into the fraternity of major champions.
In majors, taking on Tiger always part of the problem
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Delhi daredevils played their 2nd match for the airtel champions league t20 and it was a great match when Dinesh Karthik and Virender Sehwag played a knock which led delhi to a win agains the wayamba 11 which ad players like mahela jayawardene.
Delhi daredevils win the match against wayamba 11
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Sir Alex Ferguson feels the notion of a Premier League play-off system to allow clubs finishing outside the top four to compete for a Champions League place is "harebrained".
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The image of their son holding up the championship trophy would be etched on their memories forever.
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The former world champion imparted a few words of wisdom to the young runners.
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He will use it to win the European Championship.
The Sun
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New York made it to the National League Championship Series as a Wild Card team last October, losing a cliffhanger series to the Atlanta Braves.
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She got her competitive start in American skeet and won her first championships at age 13, gaining national attention
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Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell.
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But he's happily married to Stacy Creamer , a world-class triathlete and a two-time world champion in the duathlon, a running and cycling race.
In It for the Long Run
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Congrats on being Olympic rowing champion!
The Sun
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The pair along with Donald Ideson, who shoots air pistols, are due to compete in the Yorkshire County Championships at Bradford in December.
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Every time I see the papers commentating on an English sporting team they are either praised as the next World Champions or damned as sporting failures.
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Despite the growing protests of the medical establishment, boxing still thrives at the championship level.
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As he flew into sharp corners, it seemed the defending champion had taken leave of his senses.
Times, Sunday Times
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The firebrand championing the indigenous Komi people was none other than Yury Spiridonov, an ethnically Russian oil miner and party worker, born in Omsk and educated in Sverdlovsk, who had once gotten into trouble for snapping at someone who tried to address him in Komi: “Speak in a way that can be understood.”
The Return
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The game was to have been played last Sunday week but was put back due to an objection being lodged against the Cork champions by the opposing team in the Munster final.
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The Naval Air Corps was then in its infancy and sorely needed a strong leader and champion.
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This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
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This is particularly so since he is now putting himself forward as a candidate for national office as the champion of the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
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I was playing in the championship, but I felt we were in different tournaments altogether.
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This year he trained the light scull world champion Victoria Dimitrova as well as Neikova.
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When you were the defending champion the next year, you were criticized by the British press for showing up late to a function and acting like a boor.
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For his part, Walsh declines to respond to Armstrong's bitter personal criticism in kind, and he displays no outward signs of animus toward the Tour champion.
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In 1998, he followed up those wins with the US and Canadian National titles as well as the Ohio Buckeye Champion Stallion title.
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Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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Throughout his 13-year career, Taylor was a marauding, intimidating presence who helped transform the Giants from also-rans into champions.
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Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
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Meanwhile, it emerged last night that there had been a suspicious dope test during the championships.
Times, Sunday Times
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The former England captain made his reputation as a prolific goalscorer and allround champion of attacking football.
The Sun
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Dinner parties, cookery demos, oyster shucking championships, plus music and comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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This week's game is a clash from Moscow between two former world champions.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is but one measure of how much the championship week means to him.
Times, Sunday Times
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More of the same will make the champions very hard to dislodge.
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But this shock win gave City a huge lift in their quest to stave off relegation from the Championship.
The Sun
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His kicking game in tight situations is unbelievable and his positional play has been superb in the championship this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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But being world champion may not be enough to satisfy him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Athletes must be ten years of age in order to run in the Championship events.
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He has trained in the sport since 1983 and won a gold medal at the last world championships.
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As if in echo of national pride at his achievement, the magnificent sound of bagpipes swirled in honour of the Bulgarian champion.
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Championship strugglers Gillingham made it a third match without defeat at promotion-chasing Sheffield United.
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They're becoming more serious as the provincials and Western Championship get closer.
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The team is languishing in sixth place in the constructors' championship with one race to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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I want this town to melt in delirious euphoria over a World Championship, and celebrate it every day for a year -- New Orleans style.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Diff'rent Strokes actor and cast member of Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling Todd Bridges is releasing an autography next month titled "Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted" There's no word yet as to whether Bridges, who grew up a lifelong professional wrestling fan, will mention CCW or his affinity for the business in the book yet.
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Another friend, a champion wrestler, kept a poster on the wall of the basement where he worked out with weights.
Christianity Today
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The foursome will also attend a four day training camp at Coffs Harbour to fine tune team tactics prior to the championships.
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Now I have a realistic chance of being an Olympic champion.
Times, Sunday Times
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To use a sports metaphor for a moment, the history of sports is littered with teams that had lots of individual stars on them, but never made it to the championship game.
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Won a championship and 128 regular season games in 2 seasons … and rondo is uncoachable? this is becoming fabrication after fabrication … .. and do they know if mike conley and rudy gays attitudes are any better? stoudemires? stuckeys?
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George has been a member of Mission Hills for some time, and he regularly plays in the pro-am tournament held the same week in March as the LPGA event now known as the Nabisco Championship.
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America is a great country - from the master of slavery to a champion of civil rights and a defender of liberty and freedom, America is a symbol of great human spirit and justice. Dr T.P.Chia
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Boxing champion Mike Tyson was, of course, convicted in the 1992 rape of a beauty pageant contestant.
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Thank God, a "Southern literature," in the sense intended by the champions of slavery, is a simple impossibility, rendered such by that exility of mind which they demand in its producers as a prerequisite to admission into the guild of Southern authorship.
The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’. Muhammad Ali
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In New Orleans, beignets are the breakfast of champions.
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And he is now set for another defence before a summer showdown with a rival world champion.
The Sun
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He was born with deformities in both legs but nevertheless became a champion rider and high jumper in his teens.
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The 5th-seeded Browne crushed the defending champion.
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Tonight he can become a unified world champion and remove any doubts about his standing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players.
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He has been playing championship tennis for three years now.
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Sport is not a bolt-on extra in the lives of champions, sport is everything to them and victory the aim of their every waking moment.
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During his reign as manager, English helped Tipp to win one All-Ireland, one Munster championship and two National League titles.
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Swimming in lane four is the weapon of mass destruction that donkey-licked the opposition in the 2011 World Championships.
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It is no longer enough to be a beer pong champion - you must also be proficient in flag football and volleyball.
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In two thousand six, the United States Tennis Association named the tennis center in honor of tennis champion and activist Billie Jean King.
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You experience a thriving mix of Maori, forestry, arts and crafts, a champion Maori rugby team, Tolaga Bay knitwear, peerless beaches and matchless surf.
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We asked the surfing champion what first drew him to the sport.
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Celtic lost to Basel in the Champions League, to Motherwell in the SPL, and were unconvincing last weekend against Hibs.
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The colourful, often controversial lives of world champions have featured on the big screen.
The Sun
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He's been world champion for a year now and might be in line for a unification fight in the next 12 months.
The Sun
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Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a recent exile from London, who also loves scouring the beaches.
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He was the pride of the village after winning the championship.
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This year'snational college football championship was won by Princeton.
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Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
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The undefeated super middleweight champion defended his WBO title 14 times after beating Chris Eubank in 1997.
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I also remember an issue of Champions where the team discovers Black Goliath poinding on Stiltsky.
DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
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The belt has been awarded to him because of his best performance and fight in India and for winning gold medals in several championships.
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The Under-18 team went on to be crowned champions and the club's Wharfedale League team was promoted to the Second Division.
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The former world light welterweight champion hit a trough of despair after two high-profile defeats.
The Sun
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A champion of privatization, he's been holding closed-door meetings with moderate Democrats in the hopes of forging a compromise.
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The 16-time grand slam champion faces yet more uphill climb as he takes aim at the next step on the title ladder, the 77 trophies of John McEnroe.
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Bryan also officiates at the Speedo Championship sectional Series as well as the Central Zone Championships.
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German champions along with young talented riders jumped, piaffed, went across country, drove carriages, vaulted, reined or went endurance riding to the joyful rhythm of music.
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The pro championship will be replaced by an amateur event in which stunt novices compete against each other on their own bikes.
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That was the day when he finished eagle, birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle, to steal the trophy from Colin Montgomerie, who had turned up wearing his saltire sweater, a champion in waiting.
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There are other sporting events that honour their champions with unique apparel.
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Professional Mark Bradley today claimed that his dream of playing in the Open Championship at Muirfield was bunkered by an administrative error.
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Reading went into this match having lost two consecutive Championship games for the first time since August.
The Sun
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Phungephorn, who began studying martial arts when he was 10 and in 2001 won the gold medal for Muay Thai at the World Amateur Martial Arts Championships, fought professionally through his late 20s.
Mixed martial arts students go head-to-head for good health
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And the Polish stopper admits he could be loaned to a Championship club.
The Sun
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The win was Sam's fourth of the season, and with his title rival James Westmoreland finishing second in the race, he needs only a fifth-place finish in the final two rounds to clinch the championship.
BBC Lincolnshire | Lincolnshire
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If that were the case, then wouldn't the girls athletics program be overburdened with athletic hopefuls dreaming of state championships?
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In fact, for the first time in many years, none of the men's semi-finalists was a former or the current National champion.
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Their novice dressage and showjumping teams have won through to the National Riding Club Championships.
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This has not been a great month for the former champion jockey.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you wanted one magic moment with which to sum up the championships, you would look no further than Eunice Barber and the last-round jump that took her to long jump gold.
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To claim that the All-Ireland champions performed badly on the day would do an injustice to the visitors' gritty performance.
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Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
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The arrival of Bakala seems to confirm rumors this week in Europe that cyclo-cross world champion Zdenek Stybar is poised to join Quick Step and make a run at the spring classics.
Quick Step takeover makes room for Zdenek Stybar arrival
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French departee, wonder how he calculated the expenses of a holidayer and now we have his daughter the 35 Hour week champion.
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The question is whether they will have enough composure to outfox the defending champions
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He was stripped of his official posts as he increasingly championed democratic reform.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I have to cling to the hope that we can get through at the Nou Camp, win our semi-final and I might be fit for the Champions League final.
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It was an invitation to his beleaguered opponent, but Hewitt might as well have been meaning the delivery of the championship.
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Dupont and teammate Justin Faulkner were named OUA all-stars after placing in the top ten at the championships.
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That ought to be enough to scare away even the most devoted private-sector champions of better training.
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The 12-times World Champion and 2003 UK Open winner, finished second in the Order of Merit.
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He's a champion sailboarder and a determined long distance paddler.
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The latest jolt from the defending Eastern Conference champions came Wednesday night in a 5-3 victory.
USATODAY.com
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He says that winning the championship last year is still only gradually sinking in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The former WBA world featherweight champion was also banned from driving for four years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Leinster champions had another slice of good fortune when a poor point attempt by Sheridan fell short but hopped over the bar for a point.
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But the case would be a lot stronger with a certain credential — an Olympic championship, which would also be his country's first in men's water polo.
USATODAY.com - Young American having a ball in the pool
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When another timetable clash meant she had to choose between football trials for the national team and the national cross-country championships, she opted for athletics.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the meantime, there is a world championship to be won or lost.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rules require the title to revert to the original champion if a triumphant challenger fails of a doping test.
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Paintings of past and present champions in action, horseshoe-shaped ear-rings and ties and scarves with jockeys' silks on them are all on sale.
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His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
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When he finally got the chance to play in the starting eleven after David Beckham's infamous booking and injury, Owen found the back of the net in the Champions' League tie with Dynamo Kiev.
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Wy, I knowed a long lathy-limbed josser as felt up to champion form.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892
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All year long, the Bruins were living with the fame and adulation of being defending national champions.
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In the event of a tie for first place at the championship, in both the events, there will be a playoff for the title similar to previous years.
Archive 2008-03-01
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There are local, regional and national championships and mastery is measured in dans, just like a martial art.
Times, Sunday Times
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In two thousand six, the United States Tennis Association named the tennis center in honor of tennis champion and activist Billie Jean King.
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He is the undisputed backbench champion of the well-publicized empty gesture.
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This summer in Lincoln, after breezing through the seven-state regionals in Oregon, Sean qualified for the junior amateur category and won his own national championship.
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The finals of the Championship begin today, matching the United States against France.
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Who holds the championship at the moment?
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What we need is a gladiatorial contest between the representative champions of each political party.
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He champions free speech but if opposing views are brought forth, he interrupts and heckles.
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The former champion hurdler has something to prove after an unconvincing comeback win.
Times, Sunday Times
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CHAMPIONS view losing a final as simply a matter of ending up second best and rapidly purge the memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over at the sheep pens, Whittington farmer James Airey celebrated as his two-year-old Suffolk gimmer shearling took the title of supreme sheep champion.
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It took the tennis champion a few games to get the measure of his opponent.
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And not just because both teams were unceremoniously dumped out of the Champions League in midweek.
The Sun
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But he couldn't be got to conceive the notion of envying Champion.
The Wisdom of Father Brown
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First questions came from former Olympic champion and defeated finalist - US swimmer Janet Evans.
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Indiana are the clear favorites to bring a championship back to the Eastern conference.
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Such coolness under pressure is the mark of a champion.
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And champion of them all, whether on land or in the sea, is almost certainly the giant clam.
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They see him as a potential match-winner when the new four-day format is brought into championship cricket next year.
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She was given a warm welcome by farmers at the championships and even tried her hand at ploughing with two Irish draught mares, owned by brothers Joe and Padraig Fahy, of Corrandulla, Co Galway.
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The real contest, champions v pretenders, begins.
Times, Sunday Times
