One driver who remained silent throughout all the impromptu drivers meetings on the grid was World Champion Ayrton Senna who had other reasons for wanting to start despite the appalling conditions ( Senna was one driver who actually remained in his car the whole time ).

Unlike other Suikoden games, which generally feature a silent protagonist, the Flame Champion and the other main characters all have personalities and dialog.

Although several billion years old, the Champion is not as intelligent as most other known Elders of the Universe, partially because most have chosen to develop their minds along with their physical bodies.

St Regis turned to Champion International and agreed to a $ 1. 84 billion takeover.

Champion and Aldaniti were instantly propelled to celebrity status, and within two years their story had been re-created in the film Champions, starring John Hurt.

* In May 2012 it was announced that trumpeter Terence Blanchard and playwright Michael Cristofer are working on an opera titled Champion based on Griffith's story which will premiere at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in June 2013

The book was an expansion of a story told in Danny, the Champion of the World, an earlier Dahl book.

It was followed with Champion, another Lardner story, this one about an ambitious and unscrupulous boxer.

Filmed over two years by Jane Beckwith and Mandy Wragg, and presented by Sarah Beeny, it showed the rapid development of the project, along with the individual story of Tim Nicol, the ' Village Champion ' who moved to live in Tideswell for a year and helped the volunteer directors get Taste Tideswell off the ground.

It tells the story of Madame Souza, an elderly woman who goes on a quest to rescue her grandson Champion, a Tour de France cyclist, who has been kidnapped by the French mafia for gambling purposes and taken to the city of Belleville.

The story focuses on Madame Souza, an elderly woman raising her young grandson, Champion.

In general his short fiction has been well received, with his story " Malediction " being described as amongst the best of those included in Thieves ' World: Enemies of Fortune, while " Beowulf in the City of the Dark Elves " has been regarded as the best of the original fiction in The Further Adventures of Beowulf: Champion of Middle Earth.

In 2009 Blessed played the world's worst explorer, Sir Basil Champion – a character based upon Blessed's fictional inspiration, The Lost Worlds Professor Challenger – in the fourth story in The Scarifyers series, The Curse of the Black Comet.

Famous winners of the Grand National include Red Rum ( won 3 times, runner up twice ), Mr Frisk ( the last winner to date to be ridden by an amateur jockey and who ran the Grand National in the fastest time ), Aldaniti ( ridden by Bob Champion shortly after he had recovered from cancer ; his story was made into a film ) and Foinavon ( winner at 100 to 1 in 1967 when all other horses fell or refused 8 fences out ; the fence is now named after the winner ).

" The Champion of the World " is a condensed version of the story that would become Dahl's 1977 children's book, Danny the Champion of the World.

# Champion Thomas ( 1990 ) ( story )

* Notes on the story of Sinuhe, Paris, Librairie Honoré Champion, 1916 ( Read on line, Kelvin Smith Library ).

He learns from Lilly Pendragon of the Flame Champion's story, and eventually seeks out the Flame Champion for aid with the Clans set upon by both the Zexens and, in Chisha village, the Harmonians.

The story focuses around the title character, Lemnear, who according to prophecy is the Champion of Silver.

Chapter titles such as " The Challenge ", " The Crusade " and " The Champion Falls " add a decidedly military flavor to the story.

Champion ( 1949 ) is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner.

They wrote, " Adapted from a Ring Lardner short story of the same title, Champion is a stark, realistic study of the boxing rackets and the degeneracy of a prizefighter.

The story is based on Dahl's adult short story " Champion of the World " which appears in Claud's Dog.

Like the first game, Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side follows the story of the Eternal Champion, who felt the balance of the universe and time had been disturbed by the deaths of key individuals who had been destined to change the world for the greater good.

Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa ( The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion ) is a short story, a þáttr on the Swedish claimant and Jomsviking Styrbjörn the Strong preserved in the Flatey Book ( GKS 1005 fol 342-344, ca 1387-1395 ).

In Doctor Who, the Doctor uses the opening lines on regaining consciousness in the 4th Doctor story The Talons of Weng-Chiang, although he misattributes them to music hall comic Harry Champion.

The Tsar reportedly awarded the title to the five finalists: Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall ( respectively, the World Champion, the next two World Champions, and two players who had lost World Championship matches to Lasker ).

Harrison, a dual Australian Champion Beach Sprinter who went on to row in the coxless four at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, had been introduced to rowing after a chance meeting with one of the fathers of modern athletic physiological training and testing, and the coach of the Leichhardt Guinea Pigs, Professor Frank Cotton.

Examples of Dime Novel series that showcase the diversity of the term include: Bunce ’ s Ten Cent Novels, Brady ’ s Mercury Stories, Beadle ’ s Dime Novels, Irwin P. Beadle ’ s Ten Cent Stories, Munro ’ s Ten Cent Novels, Dawley ’ s Ten Penny Novels, Fireside Series, Chaney ’ s Union Novels, DeWitt ’ s Ten Cent Romances, Champion Novels, Frank Starr ’ s American Novels, Ten Cent Novelettes, Richmond ’ s Sensation Novels, Ten Cent Irish Novels, etc.

In 1904, the Rider Hotel in Cambridge Springs was the site of a famous chess tournament won by Frank Marshall ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker and fourteen other players.

* The borough is home to former Major League Baseball player, Frank Bolick, former New York Jets football player Dan Ficca, current Philadelphia Eagles assistant coach to Andy Reid, Bret Veach, former San Francisco 49ers player Len Eshmont, and former New York State Billiards Champion Dave Daya.

UFC 100 was a massive success garnering 1. 7 million buys under the drawing power of former NCAA wrestling champion and current WWE superstar Brock Lesnar and his rematch with former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir, Canadian superstar Georges St-Pierre going head-to-head with Brazilian knockout artist Thiago Alves, and Pride legend Dan Henderson opposing British middleweight Michael Bisping ; rival coaches on The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom.

While in Alaska, Gotch wrestled under the name Frank Kennedy and won the title of " Champion of the Klondike ".

He did not sing the soundtrack song for High Noon, which was sung by Tex Ritter, but his own version ( with somewhat altered lyrics, omitting the name of the antagonist, Frank Miller ) was the one that became a bigger hit, nor did he sing the theme to another show he is commonly associated with — Champion the Wonder Horse ( sung by Mike Stewart )— but released his own, subsequently more popular version.

Frank James Marshall ( August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944 ), was the U. S. Chess Champion from 1909 – 36, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.

Nonetheless, some leading players, such as Emanuel Lasker ( World Champion from 1894 to 1921 ), Frank Marshall, Savielly Tartakower, and Aron Nimzowitsch, and later Max Euwe ( World Champion from 1935 to 1937 ) played the Sicilian.

* In the field of sports, Niagara alumni include: Hubie Brown, two-time NBA Coach of the Year and Basketball Hall of Fame member ; Larry Costello, six-time NBA All-Star and NBA coach ; Frank Layden, NBA Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year ; Sal Maglie, two-time MLB National League All-Star ; Joe McCarthy, seven-time MLB World Series Champion and National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum member ; and Calvin Murphy, three-time All-American, NBA All-Star and Basketball Hall of Fame member

The population was growing in the 1920s, and several millionaires such as Harvey Firestone, J. C. Penney, Harvey Stutz, Albert Champion, Frank Seiberling, and Rockwell LaGorce built homes on Miami Beach.

" Referring to the breakout performance of Frank J. Marshall, the United States Champion from 1909 to 1936, Mr. Kasparov continued, " Then you have Marshall at Cambridge Springs in 1904 ahead of Lasker, though Tarrasch wasn ’ t there.

In literature, certain authors also engage in crossovers by including characters from different novels they have written in one particular volume ; L. Frank Baum did this regularly, and Michael Moorcock frequently uses this device-particularly in his Eternal Champion sequence of novels, which establish a vast ' multiverse ' populated by numerous different characters, many of whom appear in different novels and even different genres.

In 1952 he defeated Baron Michele Leone in Los Angeles for the California World Heavyweight title and became the first undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion since the days of Frank Gotch and Georg Hackenschmidt.

* Frank Klaus, German-American boxer, 1913 Middleweight Champion.

* Elise Boillet, " L ' Aretin et les papes de son temps ," in Florence Alazard et Frank La Brasca ( eds ), La papauté à la Renaissance ( Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2007 ) ( Travaux du Centre d ' Études Supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours, 12 ), 324-363.

* Nelson H. Minnich, " Julius II and Leo X as Presidents of the Fifth Lateran Council ," in Florence Alazard et Frank La Brasca ( eds ), La papauté à la Renaissance ( Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2007 ) ( Travaux du Centre d ' Études Supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours, 12 ), 153-166.

Team owner Frank Williams would not guarantee Nigel Mansell the number 1 driver status in the team next to the triple World Champion Prost, despite Mansell being the reigning World Champion, so Mansell opted not to remain with the team to defend his title and moved to IndyCar racing in the US.

Le has also worked as an actor ; he defeated Frank Shamrock to become the second Strikeforce Middleweight Champion before vacating the title to further pursue his acting career.

Chess Champion Frank James Marshall in only seven moves.

* William Frank Carver-" Doc " William Frank Carver ( 1840 – 1927 ), defeated Captain Adam Henry Bogardus, World Champion and United States Champion trap shootist, in a series of 25 matches 19 times.