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Today's generation often looks towards athletes as both role models and, in some cases even, heroes. Sadly, many of them fail to live up to the public's expectations of them. Doping and cheating are becoming more and more common place as athletes strive to achieve greater and greater success. Fallen by the wayside in the competitive world of sports seems to be many of the traditions and morals that make an athlete truly note worthy.

Joaquim Benedito Barbosa Gomes, more popularly known as Joaquim Barbosa, is the first Afro-Brazilian Chief Justice of his country's supreme court (Supremo Tribunal Federal or STF). But more than being the highest court's first black president, Joaquim Barbosa is hailed as a national hero by his people because of his fearless stand regarding the biggest corruption case ever heard in the country-the Mensalao (or Big Monthly Allowance).