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A quest for best sportspeople:

yes i know, very debatable...

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Magnus Carlsen (chess)

Kevin Mayer (decathlon)

Lionel Messi (soccer)

Michael Schumacher (formula 1)

Lewis Hamilton (formula 1)

Rafael Nadal (tennis)

Roger Federed (tennis)

Diego Maradona (soccer)

Floyd Mayweather Jr. (boxing)

Valentino Rossi (moto gp)

Max Verstappen (formula 1)

Pele' (soccer)

Ashton Eaton (decathlon)

Novak Djokovic (tennis)

Damian Warner (decathlon)

Usain Bolt (100m)

Johan Cruijff (soccer)

Martina Navratilova (tennis)

Ronaldinho (soccer)

Jan Zelezny (javelin throw)

Mike Powell (long jump)

Bob Beamon (long jump)

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Kelvin Kiptum

Eliud Kipchoge

Haile Gebrselassie

Michael Jordan

Armand Duplantis

Jonathan Edwards

Rocky Marciano

Muhammad Ali'

Fabiano Caruana

Alfredo di Stefano

Jannik Sinner

Roberto Carlos

Bashir Abdi

Lamine Yamal

Erling Haaland

Kylian Mbappe'

Franz Beckenbauer

Aleix Espargaro'

Garry Kasparov

Tiger Woods

Fernando Alonso

Giacomo Agostini

Austra Skujyte

Hikaru Nakamura

Marc Marquez

Mike Hailwood

Sebastian Vettel

Jorge Lorenzo

Eddy Merckx

LeBron James

Andrea Dovizioso

Kenenisa Bekele

Wilt Chamberlain

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Hugues Fabrice Zango

Juan Fangio

Conseslus Kipruto

Steffi Graf

Simone Biles

Lev Yashin

Jurij Sedych

Lev Aronian

Ves Topalov

Carl Lewis

Robert Emmiyan

Carlos Alcaraz

Mia Hamm

Mike Tyson

Wesley So

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Ferdinand Omanyala

Marcell Jacobs

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Michel Platini

Angel Nieto

Fred Astaire

Michael Phelps

Mark Spitz

Carlo Ubbiali

Paolo Maldini

Zinedine Zidane

Gianluigi Buffon

David Rudisha

Cristiano Ronaldo

Tom Brady

Bjorn Borg

Fausto Coppi