My trusty 30-year-old Oxford dictionary defines "champion" as a person who has defeated all others in a competition.

On the other hand, a "hero" is a person who is admired for brave and noble deeds.

I would like the media to stop using the word hero in relation to the Olympics. Winning athletes are great champions, but a hero is a person who, for instance, rescues someone from a house fire or goes to war to protect their country.

Alanna Finney

Kotara South

August 25