Roger Federer holds up the gold medal in the men’s doubles tennis event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The person most frequently chosen as a ‘hero’ by Paris Olympics participants was ‘Tennis Emperor’ Roger Federer (43, Switzerland).
Of the players participating in this competition, 3,272 introduced their heroes in the official profiles of the competition.
Among them, 103 players chose Federer as their hero.
Federer has also been named the ‘ATP Fan Favorite Player’ for 19 consecutive years during his active career.
Federer won the gold medal in men’s doubles with Stanislas Wawrinka (39) at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He
also won a silver medal in singles at the 2012 London Games held at the All England Club, the Wimbledon venue.
Federer lost to Andy Murray (37), a representative of the host country Great Britain, in the final of the tournament. Murray also won the event at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, making him the only player in Olympic tennis history to win back-to-back men’s singles titles.
The player who received the most votes after Federer was ‘Pelfish’ Michael Phelps (39, USA).
Phelps was evaluated as a hero by 101 people, two less than Federer.
Phelps participated in the Olympics four times from the 2004 Athens Games to the 2016 Rio Games, winning 23 gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals.
Phelps is the player who won the most gold medals in Olympic history, and the player who has the most total medals.
Third place went to Usain ‘Lightning’ Bolt (38, Jamaica).
There were 94 athletes who 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 times in a row from the 2008 Beijing Games to the 2016 Rio Games.
However, the gold medal in the 4x100m relay at the Beijing Games was later stripped away when a fellow athlete failed a drug test.
Next, ‘no show’ Cristiano Ronaldo (39, Portugal, soccer) took 4th place, ‘Dirt God’ Rafael Nadal (38, Spain, tennis) took 5th place, and ‘The Greatest’ Muhammad Ali (1942-2016, USA, boxing) took 6th place.
‘Basketball Emperor’ Michael Jordan (61, USA) was also evaluated as a hero by over 50 athletes, and ‘Tennis Empress’ Serena Williams (43, USA) was named 1st among female athletes and 8th overall.
‘Black Mamba’ Kobe Bryant (1978-2020, USA, basketball) took 9th place, and ‘Soccer God’ Lionel Messi (37, Argentina) took 10th place.
After Messi, the person who was chosen as the hero the most was not a specific player, but ‘father’ (41 people).
27 players chose their mother as their hero, and 22 chose their parents.
Among their family members, 21 players chose themselves.
20 players chose their brother as their hero, and 19 chose their sister as their hero.
15 players chose their own child as their hero, and 3 each chose their husband and wife.
Czech canoeing representative Daniel Havel (33) answered that his father-in-law is his hero.
Havel’s father-in-law, Martin Doktor (50, Czech Republic), is a canoeist who won two gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
His uncle received five votes, and his aunt received two votes.
Some athletes chose their grandfathers (4 people) and grandmothers (23 people) as their heroes.
Among Korean athletes, the athlete who was chosen as the hero the most was Ahn Chang-rim (30, Judo).
Five people, including Heo Mi-mi (22), the Korean women’s 57kg class representative, Nurlihan Sharhan (24, Kazakhstan), Terada Masayuki (29, Thailand), Eduard Tripel (27, Germany), and Fares Badawi (28, Palestine), chose Ahn as their hero.
Lee So-hyang (43), the Korean shooting representative, chose singer-songwriter So-hyang as her hero.
So-hyang and Beyonce were the only two singers chosen as heroes. 카지노사이트
