Sentence examples for sporting champions from inspiring English sources

I have met or have observed a thousand and more great sporting champions, but none has had anything remotely like the quality of Ayrton Senna.

"The aim of the United Nations activities involving sport is not the creation of new sporting champions and the development of sport but rather the use of sport in broader development and peace-building activities," states the report, published at the request of Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

True sporting champions, it transpires, don't much go in for thinking about what they are doing.

No politician has dared to follow in Nadine Dorries' footsteps last year, but plenty of soap stars, sporting champions and noughties boy band members have done.

But the emergence of women as sporting champions would never have happened without the persistence of Christmas and others like her, who dared to defy the prejudice against women's involvement in the 800 metres, Christmas's best event.

Alongside the polemic are accounts of encounters with sporting champions from Martina Navratilova to Marilyn Okoro, and sporty celebrities from Gladiators' Jet to Mel C. Some stories make you boggle – the discovery, for instance, that England midfielder Katie Chapman had to miss out on the World Cup because she couldn't afford childcare and the FA refused to help.

There was nothing in Gallagher's early life that marked her out as a future sporting champion.

A chapter on Horses & People provides a thorough overview of the horse's many important roles in human history and today, from pack animal to sporting champion.

Second, the laws on fraud should be sufficient to deal with the snake-oil salesmen who promise to predict, say, whether a child might be a sporting champion.

Behind every sporting champion or grassroots sports club is an army of volunteers who have dedicated their time and efforts to sport.

There is a stereotype that suggests that behind every girl sporting champion stands a domineering father, pushing her to succeed, whatever the cost.