Sentence examples for Champion from inspiring English sources

Boardman, the 1992 Olympic pursuit champion, set a distance of 56.375km in 1996, which is no longer on the official record books.

Li's retirement from tennis may have robbed Melbourne of a defending champion but it has given Kvitova a boost that could yet see her add to her two Wimbledon titles over the next fortnight.

The chief executive had to champion the change.

The school called Griffith a "pillar of the community" and a "champion for the downtrodden".

According to Nine, this beats the previous world record of $2.522m given away in a champion run on the US game show Jeopardy.

Andy Roddick doesn't have one of those T-shirts either, but that has not stopped the promising but raw 18-year-old from being promoted as a champion elect.

Senna pipped the Frenchman to the title that year, saw Prost take it ahead of him in 1989, and was then crowned champion in each of the following two seasons, becoming the then youngest three-times champion in 1991 at the age of 31.

Jason Gillespie has been shielded from questions regarding the job of England head coach, while his director of cricket at Yorkshire, Martyn Moxon, has admitted that the rumours linking the Australian with the role are in danger of becoming a permanent distraction to England's champion county.

An "emotionally and physically drained" Mo Farah took a 6am flight back to the United States after withdrawing from the Birmingham Grand Prixon Sunday but his exit angered British fans and left the double Olympic champion out of pocket.

Asked if Farah, the Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion, should suspend his relationship pending further investigation, Coe, also a double Olympic champion, said: "That's for Mo to decide.

Along with Ben Shewry at Attica and Dan Hunter at Brae, Jock Zonfrillo of Orana in Adelaide is a leader of a new breed of chefs who have steered away from the country's Med and Thai obsessions to champion indigenous ingredients and flavours.