Posted July 8, 20196 yr 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! This is the Nominations stage for Asia. To make it easy for you all (and so you don't have to read a really long paragraph), here are the rules: - You can nominate any sportsperson, active, retired or dead, provided that their most recent appearance nationally was from a country in Asia (regardless of where they were born). If they have never competed on a national level, their nationality will simply be that which associate themselves with. - The countries which count as Asia here will be the same as the countries which take part in the Asian qualifiers for the Football World Cup. The full list is shown in the second post, however notably Australia counts as Asia here, whilst most of the Western Asia countries do not. - You can nominate any number of sportspeople, regardless of whether they have already been nominated. Every nominated sportsperson will advance through to the next round, however the sportsperson with the most nominations will advance directly through to the Finals without being entered into the continental qualifiers. Nominations close on Sunday 14th June at 23:59 (but if you're a little bit late I'll probably still count them). Get nominating!
July 8, 20196 yr Author ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES: Afghanistan, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Chinese Taipei, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Northern Marina Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
July 10, 20196 yr Rahmat Shah (Afghanistan)- Cricket Jack Brabham (Australia)- Formula One Maragret Court (Australia)- Tennis Cadel Evans (Australia)- Cycling Cathy Freeman (Australia)- Athletics Grant Hackett (Australia)- Swimming Matthew Hayden (Australia)- Cricket Lleyton Hewitt (Australia)- Tennis Alan Jones (Australia)- Formula One Rod Laver (Australia)- Tennis Brett Lee (Australia)- Cricket Glenn McGarth (Australia)- Cricket Greg Norman (Australia)- Golf Sally Pearson (Australia) Athletics Ricky Ponting (Australia)- Cricket Daniel Ricciardo (Australia)- Formula One Neil Robertson (Australia)- Snooker Samantha Stosur (Australia)- Tennis Ian Thrope (Australia)- Swimming Shane Warne (Australia)- Cricket Mark Waugh (Australia)- Cricket Steve Waugh (Australia)- Cricket Mark Webber (Australia)- Formula One Simon Whitlock (Australia) Darts Skahib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)- Cricket Ding Junhui (China)- Snooker Xing Huina (China)- Athletics Wang Meng (China)- Speed Skating Li Na (China)- Tennis Liu Xiang (China)- Athletics Sun Yang (China)- Swimming Yang Yang A (China) Speed Skating Marco Fu (Hong Kong)- Snooker Rahul Dravid (India)- Cricket Anil Kumble (India)- Cricket Harbhajan Singh (India)- Cricket Sachin Tendulkar (India)- Cricket Kosuke Kitajima (Japan)_ Swimming Mizuki Noguchi (Japan)- Athletics Naomi Osaka (Japan)- Tennis Yutaka Take (Japan)- Horse Racing Shahdid Afridi (Pakistan)- Cricket Wasmim Akram (Pakistan)- Cricket Imran Khan (Pakistan)- Cricket Manny Pacquiao (Phillipines)- Boxing Ahn Hyun-Soo (South Korea)- Speed Skating Chun Lee-Kyung (South Korea)- Speed Skating Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)- Cricket Muttiah Murtalitharan (Sri Lanka)- Cricket Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)- Cricket Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka)- Cricket James Wattana (Thailand)- Snooker
July 10, 20196 yr Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar - India Virat Kohli - India Kapil Dev - India Sunil Gavaskar - India Rahul Dravid - India Waqar Younis - Pakistan Javed Miandad - Pakistan Imran Khan - Pakistan Wasim Akram - Pakistan Muttiah Muralitharan - Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lanka Mahela Jayawardene - Sri Lanka Sanath Jayasuriya - Sri Lanka Shakib Al Hasan - Bangladesh Rashid Khan - Afghanistan Don Bradman - Australia Glenn McGrath - Australia Steve Waugh - Australia Shane Warne - Australia Adam Gilchrist - Australia Dennis Lillee - Australia Richie Benaud - Australia Ricky Ponting - Australia Tennis: Li Na - China Lleyton Hewitt - Australia Rod Laver - Australia Margaret Court - Australia Naomi Osaka - Japan Athletics: Cathy Freeman - Australia Sally Pearson - Australia Liu Xiang - China Golf: Greg Norman - Australia Swimming: Ian Thorpe - Australia
July 11, 20196 yr Author Cadel Evans (Australia - Cycling) Daiya Seto (Japan - Swimming) Heung-Min Son (South Korea - Football) Sewao Kato (Japan - Gymnastics) Minxia Wu (China - Diving) Sushil Kumar (India - Wrestling) PT Usha (India - Athletics) Naomi Osaka (Japan - Tennis)
July 11, 20196 yr Tony David- (Australia)- Darts Shane Kelly- (Australia)- Cycling Harry Kewell- (Australia)- Football Nova Peris- (Australia)- Athletics and Hockey Mark Webber- (Australia)- Formula One Waqur Younis (Pakistan)- Cricket Aravinda De Silva (Sri Lanka)- Cricket Sanath Jayasuriya - (Sri Lanka)- Cricket
July 12, 20196 yr Jack Brabham (Australia)- Formula One Maragret Court (Australia)- Tennis Will Power (Australia) - Motor Racing Takuma Sato (Japan) Motor Racing Prince Bira (Thailand) Motor Racing Takeichi Nishi (Japan) Show Jumping Merv Hughes (Australia) Cricket Park Ji Sung (S Korea) Football Alan Jones (Australia)- Formula One Rod Laver (Australia)- Tennis Greg Norman (Australia)- Golf Daniel Ricciardo (Australia)- Formula One Shane Warne (Australia)- Cricket Mark Webber (Australia)- Formula One Sachin Tendulkar (India)- Cricket Wasmim Akram (Pakistan)- Cricket Imran Khan (Pakistan)- Cricket James Wattana (Thailand)- Snooker Majed Abdullah (S Arabia) Football Hidetoshi Nakata (Japan) Football
July 12, 20196 yr Football Tim Cahill Harry Kewell Sam Kerr Shinji Kagawa Son Heung Min Park Ji Sung Tennis Lleyton Hewitt Kei Nishikori Leander Paes Li Na Naomi Osaka Cycling Anna Meares Cricket Shane Warne Swimming Ian Thorpe Athletics Cathy Freeman F1 Daniel Ricciardo Mark Webber
July 13, 20196 yr Alyson Annan (Australia)- Hockey Troy Bayliss (Australia)- Motorcycling David Campese (Australia)- Rugby Michael Doohan (Australia)- Motorcycling Roy Emerson (Australia)- Tennis Evonne Goolagong (Australia)- Tennis Pat Rafter (Australia)- Tennis Mark Viduka (Australia)- Football Takuma Sato (Japan)- Motor Racing Jahangir Khan (Pakistan)- Squash
July 15, 20196 yr 1. Sally Pearson 2. Cathy Freeman 3. Ian Thorpe 4. Grant Hackett 5. Tim Cahill 6. Rod Laver 7. Margaret Court 8. Shayne Warne 9. Jelena Dokic 10. Li Na 11. Liu Xang Edited July 15, 20196 yr by vibe
July 15, 20196 yr Author (Guys I'm not going to be around until quite late this evening so if you still want to nominate/vote you can) EDIT: Make that tomorrow, sorry
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