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Malaysian Squash Champion Nicol David Leading Global Poll For Greatest Athlete Of All Time

Squash: Nicol s got it all to be on GOATs list

pic) is now in the illustrious company of GOATs. The World Games have nominated the 37-year-old Penangite in their Greatest Athlete of All Time list as voting for the award started on Friday. Nicol is the only Malaysian and Asian to be on the list, which has 24 past and present athletes from different sports nominated by their international federations. Some of them include Swedish archer Morgan Lundin, the Brazilian women’s beach handball team, Russian gymnastics legend Evgeniya Kanaeva, Dutch Jiu-Jitsu exponent Rob Haans and Sweden’s muaythai world champion Sofia Olofsson. Nicol won three gold medals and a bronze at The World Games between 2005 and 2017. She also boast eight World Championship titles and an unprecedented nine-year reign as world No. 1.

Squash: Think Nicol David s the greatest athlete of all time, then vote for her in online poll

Rafer Johnson honored by community

  With a former principal of the junior high school named in his honor leading the way, the Kingsburg City Council adopted a resolution honoring him. Newly elected Mayor Laura North told several stories about Johnson, who some call “The World’s Greatest Athlete.”   With no members of the public present due to the pandemic, the council and city officials heard words of praise for Johnson from a State Senator. Here is the text of the Resolution, without the Whereas:   On Dec. 2, 2020, one of Kingsburg‘s most distinguished hometown heroes, Rafer Lewis Johnson, passed away at 86. He was a 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the Decathlon, after getting silver in 1956 and a gold in a 1955 Pan American games. At the 1960 Rome Olympics, Johnson was the US teams flag bearer, the first Black American to do so. Mr. Johnson also lit the Olympic Flame when the Olympics came to Los Angeles in 1984.

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