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the trophy nobody remembers losing but everybody remembers winning, often by a single point.
means A competition held to decide the best player or team in a sport or activity, or the title and status of being that winner.
from Built on 'champion,' which came into English through Old French 'champion,' from Late Latin 'campio'—a fighter who entered the 'campus,' the field of battle. The same Latin 'campus' (open field) gave us 'camp' and 'campaign.' Add the suffix '-ship,' an ancient Germanic ending meaning 'state or condition' (the same one in 'friendship' and 'hardship'), and you get the condition of being a champion.
- word root
- From Latin campus, the field where battles were fought
- the gap
- Many decided in final seconds, not whole seasons
- the curse
- Defending titles is statistically harder than winning them
- the ring
- Champions get jewelry, not just bragging rights
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