1.   Tiger Woods was his sporting hero.

2.   The Olympics can make sporting heroes out of previously little-known athletes.

3.   The sporting heroes of ninety two...

4.   Present-day sporting heroes tend to spend their off-duty moments sounding off about anything and everything.

5.   As a group, they are the worst-conditioned, least-gifted of our sporting heroes.

6.   Instead of a victorious general meeting a defeated emperor, this time Japanese and Americans saluted the modern sporting heroes, Sammy Sosa and Mike Piazza.

7.   Sports fans have a chance to say loving farewells to their sporting heroes.

8.   Unlike millions of other female soccer players, however, her sporting hero was Patrick Ewing, not Hamm.

9.   Meanwhile, a smattering of fans continued to gather outside the training stadium in hopes of meeting their sporting heroes.

10.   Among the British sporting heroes taking part were Manchester United legends Bobby Charlton and George Best, plus five times Olympic rowing gold medallist Steve Redgrave.