What Is The Difference Between A Champion And An Ordinary Athlete?

Also, the champion usually wins.

The bank account?

The mindset.
Winning a shiny medal is not the ultimate prize, the fair and hard fought competition is the reward.

Training,practice practice practice,skill,and the lack of practice,training and skill of the other competitors.oh! And a bad break on the part of the other athletes,weather changes,health,injuries.oh! And repeat wins showing it was not just a one time happenstance.

The "Champion" is the one who has a bowl of WHEATIES® cereal for breakfast, every morning.

A Champion dedicates his or her whole life to being the best athlete and practice nine, ten hours a day to be the best.  They eat, sleep and drink sport.  The only thing they will ever talk about is sport, they only watch sport and that is what makes them the best.  I come out of a family where everyone is sport crazy from watching to actually doing it on International levels.

An ordinary athlete will never live like this and go to these lengths to be the best

Champions win metals annually.
Ordinary athletes are only competitors once in awhile.

Champions are those, who does hard work to reach his goal.

A champion whose somone in the past won lots of medals, ie, gold,silver & bronze medals. Also they can be a champion for being the fastest & also competing in lots of other different sports instead of just 1. An athlete is just that. Someone who competes in the races & competions etc but has not yet won anything. Xxx

What everyone else said, but sometimes, it's just a matter of public opinion.

Their belief, their desire, their persistence, their efforts.

One is good but the other one is more gooder.