11.   Trinidad and Tobago has not been without its sporting successes.

12.   Communist China has long tied sporting success to national prestige.

13.   England is a country short on recent sporting success, so Henman is a god send.

14.   The exodus is alarming badminton fans in this impoverished Southeast Asian nation, where the game provides the only source of international sporting success and recognition.

15.   The exodus is alarming badminton fans in this impoverished Southeast Asian nation, where the game provides the main source of international sporting success and recognition.

16.   The game provides the poverty-stricken country with its only source of regular international sporting success and recognition.

17.   The leadership, meanwhile, trumpets sporting success as proof of Chinese greatness.

18.   Corporate sponsors underwrite the cost of Indy-car racing in exchange for advertising, hoping to link their product to sporting success.

19.   Like Real Madrid and Barcelona derbies, the result is underscored with political significance which overrides mere sporting success.

20.   South Africa has enjoyed enormous sporting success since Mandela was elected.