Roger Federer (Tennis) Roger Federer(born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP No. 1 position for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and 285 weeks overall. As of 28 November 2011, he is ranked World No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Federer has won a mens record 16 Grand Slam singles titles. He is one of seven male players to capture the career Grand Slam and one of three (with Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal) to do so on three different surfaces (clay, grass, and hard courts). He is the only male player in tennis history to have reached the title match of each Grand Slam tournament at least five times and also the final at each of the nine ATP Masters 1000 Tournaments. Many sports analysts, tennis critics, and former and current players consider Federer to be the greatest tennis player of all time. Cristiano Ronaldo(Football) Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro,[2] OIH, (born 5 February 1985),[3] commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portuguese national team. Ronaldo became the most expensive player in football history after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer deal worth £80 million (€94 million). In addition, his contract with Real Madrid, in which he is paid €12 million per year, makes him one of the highest-paid football player in the world,[4] and his buyout clause is valued at €1000 million (€1 billion, in English usage), as per his contract. Michael Jordan(Basket Ball) Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.[1] Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. Mike Tyson(Box) Michael Gerard Mike Tyson (also known as Malik Abdul Aziz) (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold and only Heavyweight to individually unify the WBA, WBC and IBF titles. Nikola Karabatić(Handball) Nikola Karabatić (Serbian: Никола Карабатић; born April 11, 1984 in Niš, SFR Yugoslavia(now Serbia) is a French team handball player of Serbo-Croatian origin. He was part of the French national handball team[1] that won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Mens Handball Championship. He was top scorer at the championship together with Ivano Balić and Lars Christiansen, and was voted as Most Valuable Player at the championship. He also won the gold medal with France at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, beating Iceland 28-23 and scoring 8 goals. Noureddine Morceli(athletisme) Noureddine Morceli (Arabic: نور الدين مرسلي, Nūr ud-Dīn Mursilī; born February 28, 1970 in Ténès, Chlef Province) is a retired Algerian athlete, winner of the 1500 m run at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Born in Ténès, Noureddine Morceli rose to athletic prominence after winning the silver medal in the 1500 m at the World Junior Championships in 1988. Morceli attended college in Riverside, California, and throughout his career, in winter, he would return there to enjoy the mild climate and train. Emanuele Birarelli(Volleyball) Emanuele Birarelli (born 8 February 1981) is an Italian volleyball player. Birarelli was born at Senigallia. He debuted in the Italian top championship in 1998 for Pallavolo Falconara. He remained there until 2003, when he was diagnosed an arm ischemia which forced him away from the field for two years. He returned to play volleyball in 2005, first at Pineto, then for Verona and, from 2007, for Trentino Volley, with which he won an Italian national title in 2008. In the same year he debuted for Italys national team. In 2009 he won the CEV Champions League with Trentino Volley, a feat he repeated the following year
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