Word: championed
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...anyone is qualified to teach a class about athletics, it’s Baltzell. The visiting psychology professor from Boston University is also a former Olympian and National Rowing Champion. But when asked about her aim for the newly-offered class, she’s quick to point out the emphasis on the psych—not the sport...
...You’re a two time Junior World Champion, last year’s Crimson Female Athlete of the Year, and pretty much an all-around fencing badass. If you could be the Junior World Champion in something else, what would...
...clients reserved large parts of the arena for the rich, famous and, this being Brazil, beautiful. Around the same time samba schools themselves moved away from their roots in Rio's poor communities, giving awards to sambas sung by outsiders and adopting themes sponsored by multinationals. (Last year's champion won with an appeal for Latin American unity that was funded, to the tune of a reported $500,000, by Venezuela's state-oil company...
...such devotion to an over-the-hill hack? This wasn't a case of, say, a blue-blooded Barbaro coming to a poignant end at the apex of his career. Silent Witness inspired loyalty and fervor partly because he was a global champion. He repeatedly trounced many of the world's best speedsters. For the Hong Kong Jockey Club, internationally renowned for its wealth and incomparable facilities but not, till recently, the quality of its thoroughbreds, Silent Witness showed the Club packed horsepower too. Though racing has played a central role in Hong Kong's social and economic life since...
...size, and yearns for corresponding clout. One obstacle is money: funds from liberal Western churches support both the communion and many dioceses, perpetuating what southerners see as a kind of neocolonialism. Akinola announced in 2004 that he would reject money from churches he disagreed with, becoming the unfettered champion of the Global South majority...