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A quest for best sportspeople:

yes i know, very debatable...

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Kevin Mayer (decathlon)

Lionel Messi (soccer)

Alex Honnold (climber)

Michael Schumacher (formula 1)

Lewis Hamilton (formula 1)

Diego Maradona (soccer)

Magnus Carlsen (chess)

Rafael Nadal (tennis)

Roger Federed (tennis)

Floyd Mayweather Jr. (boxing)

Usain Bolt (100m)

Valentino Rossi (moto gp)

Pele' (soccer)

Ashton Eaton (decathlon)

Novak Djokovic (tennis)

Max Verstappen (formula 1)

Damian Warner (decathlon)

Johan Cruijff (soccer)

Ronaldinho (soccer)

Kelvin Kiptum (marathon)

Jan Zelezny (javelin throw)

Mike Powell (long jump)

Bob Beamon (long jump)

Armand Duplantis (pole vault)

Rocky Marciano (boxing)

Muhammad Ali' (boxing)

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Eliud Kipchoge

Haile Gebrselassie

Martina Navratilova

Michael Jordan

Jonathan Edwards

Alfredo di Stefano

Roberto Carlos

Bashir Abdi

Lamine Yamal

Erling Haaland

Kylian Mbappe'

Franz Beckenbauer

Aleix Espargaro'

Garry Kasparov

Joshua Cheptegei

Fernando Alonso

Giacomo Agostini

Bobby Fischer

Fabiano Caruana

Austra Skujyte

Javier Sotomayor

Marc Marquez

Mike Hailwood

Sebastian Vettel

Jorge Lorenzo

Mo Farah

Eddy Merckx

LeBron James

Andrea Dovizioso

Kenenisa Bekele

Wilt Chamberlain

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Mia Hamm

Hugues Fabrice Zango

Juan Fangio

Conseslus Kipruto

Donovan Bailey

Steffi Graf

Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Jannik Sinner

Simone Biles

Lev Yashin

Jurij Sedych

Irina Privalova

Hikaru Nakamura

Lev Aronian

Tiger Woods

Ves Topalov

Carl Lewis

Robert Emmiyan

Carlos Alcaraz

Mike Tyson

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

Yelena Isinbayeva