21.   Albertville introduced the world to a new sport out of the wild West, freestyle skiing, and a great American champion, Donna Weinbrecht.

22.   But he showed what a great champion he is by coming back.

23.   Cone realizes that if he flounders with the Yankees, he would probably be viewed as a great champion who simply fizzled at the end.

24.   De La Hoya said he realized that in order to be considered a great champion he had to fight, and beat, the best fighters.

25.   Even a great champion like Tennessee appears tentative, bumbling, overwhelmed.

26.   Great Mexican champions do not go out on their stools.

27.   Given the history of the graveyard, littered with the gravestones of great U.S. champions past, any American could be considered a surprise.

28.   Great champions, she said, will often get a second exemption, though rarely back-to-back.

29.   Great champions.

30.   He finished it the way nearly all great champions do, with punches bouncing off his face that he could neither block nor answer.