There is a telling moment in F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, when the young narrator, Nick Carraway, remembers a story he once heard about his girlfriend, a golf champion called Jordan Baker.
The history of three town houses on the market winds through the worlds of poetry and the Harlem Renaissance; art and Norman Rockwell; and genteel old Murray Hill, where a polo champion called Lawrence Waterbury once lived.
Wang Yifu, coach of the Chinese shooting team and a former Olympic champion, called it a "home disadvantage" because the pressure to win gold is so intense.
Dick Miles, a 10-time American champion, called the technique "the most perfectly executed stroke in the game".
Eventually South, also a four-time national champion, called for dummy's king and went down two.
Mr. Diaz, a South American skimboarding champion, called Viña del Mar "the Chilean version of Laguna," adding that "here you need to use more technique than in California".
Ai Weiwei, a prominent artist and freedom of expression champion, called for an internet boycott tomorrow.
Two games before quitting, Williams, the defending United States Open champion, called for a trainer, who applied a light bandage to the knee.
She had not fallen for a hunky young pop singer called Benjamin Biolay and, "non", her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, was not being comforted by a young minister-come-karate champion called Chantal Jouanno.
Sánchez-Vicario, a three-time French Open champion, called this victory one of her most rewarding, mostly because she turned the tables on a player who has dominated her for years.
The Olympic champion called Vernon "an embarrassment" after he criticised the lack of high-level competition to face Farah in Birmingham.
