"When I'm walking with him, I feel like I'm walking with a demigod, especially in Japan, " says Jean-Baptiste Duzan, Renault's corporate controller.

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He will always be a demigod, revered, on a pedestal, in a way that Saban and really all modern-day coaches never really will.

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Bob Costas has already advised Phelps on air that he bids fair to join Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods as a consecrated American demigod.

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Nelson Mandela has achieved demigod status for never renouncing his beliefs.

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"There are big question marks as to how Neymar will fit into the team as there is already one god, or demigod, at Barcelona in Lionel Messi, " Spanish football expert Jimmy Burns told CNN.

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Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demigod an architect's architect and an enigmatic weaver of literary spells.

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