Category Archive: Sport

Jack Johnson was an American boxer and perhaps the best heavyweight athlete of his generation. He was the first black world champion in 1908-1915 and became infamous for his relationship with white women. From 1902 to 1907, the boxer won more than 50 matches. Johnson’s career was legendary, for 47 years of fighting, he was knocked out only three times, but his life was full of problems. You know, Johnson, while still alive, wasn’t recognized as a champion, and supporters of extremism were constantly looking for “great white hope” to take away his title. They asked heavyweight champion James Jeffrey to fight with Johnson in Reno, Nevada, in 1910. However, their “hope” was defeated in the fifteenth round.
As a boxer, he achieved some of his greatest victories already being close to defeat. Outside the ring, he was attacked by the racists of America, and in response showed his arrogant position and publicly violated racial taboos.
After the end of his boxing career, the great fighter, nicknamed The Galveston Giant, being a cello amateur and violinist, a connoisseur of Harlem nightlife, opened his own Club Deluxe. He died in a car accident near Raleigh, North Carolina, in June 1946.
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Alina Zagitova is a Russian figure skater who performs in women’s singles. She is Olympic champion (2018, Pyeongchang County, South Korea) in personal competitions, silver medalist in team competitions, champion of Europe (2018), the Grand Prix winner (2017), World Champion among juniors (2017), champion of Russia (2018), Honored Master of Sports of Russia (2018). In January 2018, she held the 5th place in the rating of the International Skating Union (ISU).
Alina Il’nazovna Zagitova was born on May 18, 2002 in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russia. Her father, Ilnaz Zagitov, is a hockey coach. Alina has a younger sister, who is also engaged in figure skating. The girl’s parents named her after the artistic gymnast Alina Kabaeva. Zagitova gave up figure skating for seven times and returned. In her childhood she was fond of drawing.
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Grover Cleveland Alexander was an icon for his generation of professional baseball players. He was a phenomenal pitcher, who established major-league records, many of which still stand today. During World War I he served as an army sergeant in France. He lived through Prohibition, two marriages and divorces from the same woman, the Great Depression, and ill health due to epilepsy, alcoholism, and cancer.
Grover Cleveland Alexander was born on February 26, 1887 in Elba, Nebraska. He was the youngest of thirteen children (twelve boys and one girl). Baseball was mostly an interesting past time for Alexander until 1909.
Although Alexander worked for a time as a telephone lineman for the Howard Telephone Company, he managed to play on local teams for the fee of five silver dollars. Then he began playing baseball for independent clubs and in 1909 he signed his first contract with the Galesburg Boosters.
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Michael Phelps is a swimming sensation who’s made sports history. Since 2001, he has broken and reestablished several new world records in competitive swimming. His success at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was amazing (six gold and two bronze medals) and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he won eight gold medals!
Michael Fred Phelps II was born on June 30, 1985, in Baltimore, Maryland. He began swimming at a very young age, following in the footsteps of his father Fred. His sister, Hilary, swam for the University of Richmond and his sister, Whitney, swam at the 1996 Olympic Swimming Trials.
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Nico Rosberg is a German racing car driver, Formula One driver. He was a world champion in 2016, runner-up in 2014 and 2015, as well as the winner of Pole Position Cup in 2014. Nico is the son of Keke Rosberg, Formula 1 world champion in 1982. On December 2, 2016 Nico announced his retirement.
Nico Erik Rosberg was born on June 27, 1985 in Wiesbaden, Germany. The boy spent most of his youth in Monaco with his family. Rosberg speaks German, English, Italian and French.
On July 11, 2014 he married interior designer Vivian Sibold. They met each other 10 years before the wedding, and were engaged in August 2013. Their daughter was born on August 30, 2015.
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Steven Gerrard is an English football player, who spent most of the club career in Liverpool FC. He is Commander of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). In 2005, Steven was voted player of the year according to the UEFA version and took 3rd place in the vote on the Golden Ball. Zinedine Zidane called him the best player in the world in 2009. In 2010, The Guardian newspaper named the symbolic world all-time team in his honor.
Steven George Gerrard was born on May 30, 1980 in Whiston, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
At the age of 8 he joined Liverpool Academy. In 1998 he made his debut in the first team. At the end of 2000/01 season Gerrard was named the best young player in England.
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Dan Gable is an American freestyle wrestler, Olympic champion, world champion, champion of the Pan American Games. He is he most famous American fighter, called by some experts as one of the greatest fighters of the United States.
Danny Mac Gable was born on October 25, 1948 in Waterloo, Iowa. He was engaged in wrestling and swimming at school. In 1964, there was a tragedy in his family: his older sister was raped and killed. Danny was intensively engaged in wrestling.
In 1967 he entered the University of Iowa. In 1968 he became the champion of the Big Eight, the US champion and won the US Open. In 1970 he repeated the success at the US Open and also won the Big Eight championship. In 1971 he won the Pan American Games and the World Cup.
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