2024-08-02 13:56:40
The person most frequently chosen as a ‘hero’ by the Paris Olympics participants was ‘Tennis Emperor’ Roger Federer (43, Switzerland).
Among the players who participated in this competition, 3,272 introduced their heroes in the official profile of the competition.
And among these, Federer was the most popular player with 103 names.
Federer has also been named the ‘ATP Fan Favorite Player’ for 19 consecutive years during his active career.
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Federer won the gold medal in men’s doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, partnering with Stanislas Wawrinka (39).
She added a silver medal in singles at the 2012 London Championships, held at the All England Club, the venue for the Wimbledon Championships.
Federer lost to Andy Murray (37), a representative from the host country, Great Britain, in the final of this tournament.
Murray also won the event in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, making him the only player in Olympic tennis history to win back-to-back men’s singles titles.
The player who received the second most votes after Federer was ‘Pelfish’ Michael Phelps (39, USA).
Phelps was rated a hero by 101 people, two fewer than Federer.
Phelps competed in four Olympic Games from Athens 2004 to Rio 2016, winning 23 gold, three silver, and two bronze medals.
Phelps is the athlete with the most gold medals in Olympic history, as well as the athlete with the most overall medals.
Third place went to Usain ‘Lightning’ Bolt (38, Jamaica).
94 athletes named Bolt as their hero.
Bolt, who began participating in the Olympics at the 2004 Athens Games, won gold medals in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay three consecutive times from the 2008 Beijing Games to the 2016 Rio Games.
However, the gold medal in the 400m relay at the Beijing Games was later stripped when a fellow athlete failed a drug test.
Next, ‘No Show’ Cristiano Ronaldo (39, Portugal, soccer) was in 4th place, ‘Clay God’ Rafael Nadal (38, Spain, tennis) was in 5th place, and ‘The Greatest’ Muhammad Ali (1942-2016, USA, boxing) was in 6th place.
‘Basketball Emperor’ Michael Jordan (61, USA) was also evaluated as a hero by more than 50 players, and ‘Tennis Empress’ Serena Williams (43, USA) was ranked first among female players and 8th overall.
9th place went to ‘Black Mamba’ Kobe Bryant (1978-2020, USA, basketball), and 10th place went to ‘God of Soccer’ Lionel Messi (37, Argentina).
After Messi, the person most often chosen as a hero was not a specific player, but ‘father’ (41 people).
There were 27 players who named their mothers as their heroes, and 22 who named their parents as their heroes.
Among the family members, the next most popular player was themselves, with 21 players.
He went on to be named a hero by 20 male brothers and 19 female sisters.
There were 15 players who named their own children as their heroes, and three husbands and three wives.
Czech canoeing representative Daniel Havel (33) answered that ‘the old man’ was his hero.
Havel’s father-in-law, Dr. Martin (50, Czech Republic), is a former canoeist who won two gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
My uncle got 5 votes, and my aunt got 2 votes.
Some players named their grandfathers (4 people) and grandmothers (23 people) as their heroes.
Among Korean athletes, the athlete most often chosen as a hero was An Chang-rim (30, Judo).
Five people, including Korea’s representative in the women’s 57kg class, Heo Mimi (22), Nurlihan Sharkhan (24, Kazakhstan), Terada Masayuki (29, Thailand), Eduard Tripel (27, Germany), and Fares Badawi (28, Palestine), chose An Chang-rim as their hero.
Lee So-hyang (43), a representative of the Korean shooting team, chose singer-songwriter So-hyang as her hero.
The only singers chosen as heroes were Sohyang and Beyoncé.
Reporter Hwang Gyu-in [email protected]
2024-08-02 13:56:40