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His life is chronicled in the book All Round Genius – The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportsman, by Mick Collins. [26] Woosnam's uncle, Hylton Philipson, was a cricketer and played five Test matches for England. He once defeated actor and film director Charlie Chaplin at table tennis, playing with a butter knife instead of a bat. [26]
The 2003 winner of the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year was the American road cyclist Lance Armstrong. He had been nominated the previous year, and earned further nominations in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Following Armstrong's 2013 admission of doping, [12] all his Laureus awards and nominations were rescinded. [13]
Herbert James Elliott AC MBE (born 25 February 1938) is a former Australian athlete and arguably the world's greatest middle distance runner of his era. In August 1958 he set the world record in the mile run, clocking 3:54.5, 2.7 seconds under the record held by Derek Ibbotson; later in the month he set the 1500 metres world record, running 3:36.0, 2.1 seconds under the record held by ...
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He found it difficult to work a non-sports-related job and never held a job for an extended period of time. During the Great Depression in particular, he had various jobs, among others as a movie actor, mostly as an extra , usually playing an American Indian in Westerns , [ 99 ] starting with the 1931 serial Battling with Buffalo Bill . [ 100 ]
Jack Nicklaus Net Worth: $400M. Jack Nicklaus is widely considered to be the greatest golfer of all time, and this title is well-deserved. He won 18 major championships -- three more than Tiger Woods.
CBE ribbon. Francis Morgan Ayodélé Thompson, CBE (born 30 July 1958 [2]), better known as Daley Thompson, is an English former decathlete.He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times.