Again they could not hold on to it as Toulon proved they still have the mark of champions with the ability to win, even when nowhere near their best.
Noble played every subsequent game as again they fought for the title, still attacking in the old style, but digging in away from home to achieve draws considered the mark of champions.
The mark of a champion will never leave him.
If that's the mark of a champion, then plan the parade!
Later, Roddick was asked if the mark of a champion is accepting what's there and not worrying about the little things and just playing the game.
"What impressed me so much is that when he realised he was in a position to win he finished it, and that's the mark of a champion.
"He did exhale the last half, but then he reinhales it through his nostrils which, again, is such a mark of a champion".
And as those old masters wandered Augusta National this week, each was asked the same question: "His ability to make himself do something when he needs to; that's the mark of a champion," Jack Nicklaus said, alluding to Woods's flair for the theatrical.
Come London, Alistair will be just 24 and Jonny a mere 22 ."To do it race after race and season after season, that's the true mark of a champion," says Lessing, 40.
This is the mark of a true champion.
