As there are no restrictions on former winners competing again, it is fairly common for previous champions to be in a Tour field.
At least two judges on this year's jury have current or former students competing.
Millfield, a co-educational independent school, had eight former pupils competing at the Olympics, five of them in Team GB, cementing a growing Olympic tradition at the school where facilities include an Olympic-sized swimming pool and an equestrian centre.
With all eight former champions competing in the same World Cup for the first time, some experts think this will be the most complete Cup since the competition began in 1930.
The 6-foot, 3-inch Bruce dropped 40 pounds for the event, and while the organizers were OK with a former male competing as female, she admits she was nervous about the reaction her participation would engender.
Why, in a presidential race that appears so progressive — two left-leaning women, both former activists, competing to lead the world's seventh largest economy — have incumbent President Dilma Rousseff and challenger Marina Silva remained silent on something that kills so many women?
With the disbanding of the Unified Team, the republics of the former Soviet Union competed as separate teams.
In the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, six of her former rowers competed, three taking home medals.
Can a tiny car and technology company, founded in England, owned by Malaysians and run by a former oilman, compete in an increasingly overcrowded car market?
Even though he was forced to return on the Challenger Tour last summer while watching his former rivals compete at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, he said he was simply glad to be back.
