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Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 9th September 2019, 04:30 PM

Welcome to the World Cup of Sportspeople! With the Women's Football World Cup in full swing just finished and the Men's World Cup being a resounding success last year, we'll be following on with a tournament, not of countries, but of the sports-men and women themselves. This contest is designed to select the greatest sportspeople from each continent through a number of rounds, selecting the best of the best, and pitting them together to show who we really think is the best sportsperson of them all!

We're finally at the Finals! This is the Group Stage, where the best of the best battle it out to be in the Final Final. The 100 qualifiers have been split into 10 groups. All 100 who made it to this stage will be in the countdown, but only half will make the Final Ranking.

- You must rank all 10 sportspeople, from 1st to 10th.
- Each sportsperson has been given a short description of their major achievements to make it easier for you to make up your mind. There is also a list of the names in the first post without the descriptions/flags
- The top three sportspeople in each group will advance directly through to the Final. The sportspeople in positions 4 to 7 will face off against each other in the Playoffs, whilst the bottom three athletes will be automatically eliminated.

Group 8

Usain Bolt (Jamaica - Athletics - 8 Olympic golds, 11 World Championships golds)

Bobby Charlton (England - Football - Held record for England's most capped player, held record for England's all-time top scorer)

Johann Cruyff (Netherlands - Football - Won Ballon d'Or three times, received Golden Ball of 1974 World Cup where he captained the Netherlands to the Final))

Kapil Dev (India - Cricket - Led India to win the 1983 Cricket World Cup, held record for the greatest number of wickets taken in Test Cricket)

Evonne Goolagong Cawley (Australia - Tennis - Won 14 Grand Slam titles, 86 career titles)

Thierry Henry (France - Football - Arsenal's all-time leading scorer, won two League Cups and one Premier League title with Arsenal and 1998 World Cup with France)

Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya - Athletics - Won gold in the Steeplechase in four World Championships, the 2004 and 2012 Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games)

Michael Phelps (USA - Swimming - Won 23 Olympic golds, 27 World Championship golds)

Gary Player (South Africa - Golf - 163 professional wins, won 9 Major Championships)

Mark Waugh (Australia - Cricket - First batsman to score three centuries in the Cricket World Cup, 1999 leading Australian runscorer)

The deadline is 23:59 Sunday 15th September. Get voting!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 9th September 2019, 04:31 PM

Copy-paste list:
Usain Bolt
Bobby Charlton
Johann Cruyff
Kapil Dev
Evonne Goolagong Crawley
Thierry Henry
Ezekiel Kemboi
Michael Phelps
Gary Player
Mark Waugh

Posted by: Mack. 11th September 2019, 11:23 AM

10- Usain Bolt
9- Michael Phelps
8- Mark Waugh
7- Ezekiel Kemboi
6- Johann Cruyff
5- Thierry Henry
4- Bobby Charlton
3- Evonne Goolagang Crawley
2- Kapil Dev
1- Gary Player

Posted by: King Rollo 11th September 2019, 05:42 PM

1st Usain Bolt
2nd Michael Phelps
3rd Thierry Henry
4. Kapil Dev
5. Bobby Charlton
6. Johann Cruyff
7. Mark Waugh
8. Evonne Cawley
9. Ezekiel Kemboi
10. Gary Player

Posted by: Sarah 12th September 2019, 12:30 AM

1 Usain Bolt
2 Michael Phelps
3 Johann Cruyff
4 Mark Waugh
5 Kapil Dev
6 Bobby Charlton
7 Thierry Henry
8 Ezekiel Kemboi
9 Evonne Goolagong Cawley
10 Gary Player

Posted by: Severin 12th September 2019, 08:55 AM

Top
1 Johann Cruyff
2 Usain Bolt
3 Bobby Charlton
4 Michael Phelps
5 Kapil Dev
6 Mark Waugh
7 Evonne Goolagong Cawley
8 Ezekiel Kemboi
9 Thierry Henry
10 Gary Player

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 14th September 2019, 04:24 PM

1. Usain Bolt
2. Johann Cruyff
3. Bobby Charlton
4. Michael Phelps
5. Thierry Henry
6. Evonne Goolagong Crawley
7. Ezekiel Kemboi
8. Kapil Dev
9. Mark Waugh
10. Gary Player

Posted by: Popchartfreak 15th September 2019, 10:48 AM

1st - Usain Bolt
2 Michael Phelps
3 Bobby Charlton
4 Evonne Goolagong Crawley
5 Thierry Henry
6 Johann Cruyff
7 Ezekiel Kemboi
8 Gary Player
9 Kapil Dev
10 Mark Waugh

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 16th September 2019, 03:43 PM

Excluding the extremes, this was a pretty spread-out group with a decent result.