ABSTRACT
What makes a true champion? To a town or a village, it is a young athlete who, through devotion and perseverance, overcomes a physical handicap and goes on to bring an Olympic medal to the town or village; it is the honorable conduct of a daughter, a sister, or a mother who, in a popular war, rescued her comrades-in-arm at the risk of her own life. To a people it is a leader who rescues a nation from the tyranny and injustice of a corrupt and outmoded political system. Historical figures such as Spartacus, Joan of Arc, George Washington, and Martin Luther King are such national champions. Heroic as these figures were, their acts of heroism were confined to a local geography and a temporal slice of history.
