Posted August 26, 20195 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! 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 2 Jack Brabham (Australia - Formula One - Won three Championships and 14 Grand Prix races) Cafu (Brazil - Football - Most capped Brazilian player of all time, won 1994 and 2002 World Cups, the latter as captain) Novak Djokovic (Serbia - Tennis - Won Wimbledon 5 times, US Open 3 times, French Open once and Australian Open 7 times) Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia - Athletics - won two Olympic golds and four World Championships, broke 61 Ethiopian National Records) Vitali Klitschko (Ukraine - Boxing - Won 45 out of 47 fights, 41 by KO) David Rudisha (Kenya - Athletics - 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, two time World Champion and World Record holder in the 800m) Mark Spitz (USA - Swimming - Nine Olympic golds, 5 Pan American golds) Sachin Tendulkar (India - Cricket - Ranked as second greatest Test batsman of all time, won 2011 World Cup with India) Vijay Singh (Fiji - Golf - Won 3 Major championships, 64 professional wins) Zinedine Zidane (France - Football - Won World Cup and Euros with France, won 1998 Ballon d'Or) The deadline is 23:59 Sunday 1st September. Get voting!
August 26, 20195 yr Author Copy-paste list: Jack Brabham Cafu Novak Djokovic Haile Gebrselassie Vitali Klitschko David Rudisha Mark Spitz Sachin Tendulkar Vijay Singh Zinedine Zidane
August 27, 20195 yr 10- Haile Gebrselassie 9- Sachin Tendulkar 8- Mark Spitz 7- Novak Djokovic 6- David Rudisha 5- Vitali Klitscko 4- Zinedine Zidane 3- Cafu 2- Vijay Singh 1- Jack Brabham
August 28, 20195 yr 1st place - Sachin Tendulkar 2nd - Novak Djokovic 3rd - Haile Gebrselassie 4. Vitali Klitscko 5. Cafu 6. Mark Spitz 7. Zinedine Zidane 8. Jack Brabham 9. David Rudisha 10. Vijay Singh
August 28, 20195 yr Haile Gebrselassie Mark Spitz Jack Brabham Zinedine Zidane Novak Djokovic Cafu Vitali Klitschko David Rudisha Sachin Tendulkar Vijay Singh
August 30, 20195 yr 1 Haile Gebrselassie 2 Novak Djokovic 3 Mark Spitz 4 Sachin Tendulkar 5 Zinedine Zidane 6 David Rudisha 7 Vitali Klitschko 8 Jack Brabham 9 Cafu 10 Vijay Singh
August 30, 20195 yr 1st Haile Gebrselassie 2 Mark Spitz 3 Novak Djokovic 4 Zinedine Zidane 5 Jack Brabham 6 Vijay Singh 7 Vitali Klitschko 8 David Rudisha 9 Cafu 10 Sachin Tendulkar
September 1, 20195 yr Author 1. Haile Gebrselassie 2. Novak Djokovic 3. David Rudisha 4. Cafu 5. Zinedine Zidane 6. Vijay Singh 7. Jack Brabham 8. Sachin Tendulkar 9. Mark Spitz 10. Vitali Klitschko
September 2, 20195 yr Author Results 1. Haile Gebrselassie 2. Novak Djokovic 3. Mark Spitz 4. Zinedine Zidane 5. Sachin Tendulkar 6. David Rudisha 7. Jack Brabham 8. Cafu 9. Vitali Klitschko 10. Vijay Singh A fairly standard set of results, however there was a three-way tie that had to be broken here :o
September 2, 20195 yr Winning seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics,all with world records,was a huge achievement for Mark Spitz but he retired straight afterwards so I don't think what he did for those two weeks can be placed above what Sachin Tendulkar managed over 20 years. Hopefully Sachin will qualify through the play offs.
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