My point is, the line between being a very good team and champion can be thin.
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He has created a 14-strong team to champion business interests in City Hall.
As well as being Olympic team pursuit champion, Clancy won gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Denmark last year, and he also picked up the men's omnium - the "pentathlon" of cycling - in the second round of the World Cup in Cali, Colombia.
The Brazilian has performed well above expectations this year, out-driving his world champion team-mate, Kimi Raikkonen.
He had been linked with a move to Ferrari, but the Italian team retained world champion Kimi Raikkonen and Brazilian driver Felipe Massa.
Indeed, does anyone think the 2008 New York Giant Super Bowl Champion team was better than the New England Patriots that they beat?
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If they come back against Texas and go on to win the World Series, history will deservedly record the 2010 Yankee team as a champion.
But he won more races than any other driver, put his world champion team-mate in the shade more often than not and was untouchable in Bahrain and Valencia, and unlucky in Hungary and Singapore.
Since ballplayers are not pure commodities--service time counts as much as past performance in the league's salary structure--finding those solid contributors for little money can be the difference between a decent team and a champion.
The team is without Paralympic champion Heather Frederiksen, who misses the event with a shoulder injury.
Barrichello will team up with world champion Michael Schumacher for the fifth year running when the season begins on 7 March in Australia.
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Father Don Farnan, a priest of the affiliated parish, described him as a "normal kid" who'd been on the city champion basketball team and was always at Mass on Sunday mornings.
For our money, not that we have all that much of it, the highlight of the party and definitely something we had never seen before at an event anywhere, was the Old Spice lumberjacks station with the champion crosscut team of Dave Jewett and Mike Sullivan.
No one is more affected by the imminent closure, of course, than Mr. Benson himself, who lost his vision in his 20s and yet skillfully makes his way around the restaurant, pointing out portraits of his dogs and a signed picture from the 1986 Super Bowl champion Giants team.
They have played each other the last few years, but not ranked number one and number two, with Texas the defending champion, and Ohio State, the team many people think will succeed it as champion.
The Dominicans became the first unbeaten WBC champion, beating Team Puerto Rico for the third time in this Classic.
This year's defending champion, Oracle Team USA, is owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of technology giant Oracle Corp.
Hamilton's lead over McLaren team-mate and defending champion Fernando Alonso was cut to four points after he slid off in the season's penultimate race.
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The 1982 team lost to eventual national champion North Carolina led by Michael Jordan, James Worthy and Sam Perkins 52-50 in the final minute.
As the rain held off at Hockenheim, the Red Bulls and Ferrari dominated the fastest laps leaving world champion Button and team-mate Hamilton struggling 0.634 seconds behind the front two, something that troubled both McLaren drivers.
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The 2004 200m Olympic champion and silver medallist in Beijing Shawn Crawford and 100m star Carmelita Jeter will be competing for Team USA, captained by reigning world indoor champion hurdler Lolo Jones.
Among those to congratulate Hamilton was former McLaren team-mate and double world champion Fernando Alonso.
Fernando Alonso is said to be keen on having the 2009 world champion as a future team-mate.
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His time of one minute, 26.801 seconds, was 0.25 seconds quicker than McLaren team-mate and current world champion Jenson Button.
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The Brazilian is ahead of team-mate and new world champion Jenson Button.
But he forecast a strong season ahead for himself and the team, and the former GP2 champion reserved a special welcome for the return of slick tyres to the sport.
Mark Webber and World Champion Sebastian Vettel will drive team cars at the event in Midsummer Boulevard.
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The seven-time F1 world champion was helping the Italian team with their own appraisal of the Bridgestone rubber.
The 61-year-old stepped down as world champion Lewis Hamilton's team boss on 16 January, but stayed involved in F1.
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