1.   Their performance did not bear the hallmark of European champions.

2.   At his tender age, Yagudin has improbably become the European champion and an Olympic gold-medal candidate with soaring jumps and towering confidence.

3.   Besides the NBA champion, the European champion, the South American champion and three other top teams from Europe will be invited.

4.   But if newly created European champions are to thrive, the politicians will also have to stop obstructing three other reforms.

5.   But there was also a rule in the Olympics in those days that the team that finishes highest in the medals was the European champion.

6.   Claudia Pechstein of Germany, the European all-round champion, will challenge her teammate Niemann in the distance races.

7.   European sailors dominate the class and the leader coming into the day had been the European champion from Greece, Emilios Papathanasiou.

8.   France might be the World Cup and now the European champions, but the domestic game has languished.

9.   Good news as it turned out for Butyrskaya, a two-time European champion who landed seven clean triple jumps.

10.   He expects the toughest competition to come from European champion Yugoslavia and runner-up Lithuania, Olympic teams that strongly resemble American professional teams.