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Golfer Mark Brown of New Zealand who recently won his first Asian Tour event at the SAIL Open Golf Championship in India and then also won the Johnnie Walker Classic, has a long list of hobbies, which include playing several others sports, fishing, rugby, reading newspapers and eating!
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Boxer John Ruiz (nickname "The Quiet Man"), a former WBA World Heavyweight champion has had many ups and downs in his career. He retired after his second loss of the WBA Title to James Toney. But, ten days later, after finding out that Toney had tested positive for anabolic steroids, Ruiz withdrew his retirement and began boxing again.
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Footballer Karim Benzema is a French footballer of Algerian descent who plays as a forward for Olympique Lyonnais football club and has been touted as the next Zinedine Zidane by experts. A product of the Olympique Lyonnais youth academy, he can play as the main striker and also on both wings.
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Former football player and now coach Arthur Antunes Coimbra better known as Zico who was often called the "White Pele" was named by Pele himself among the top 125 greatest living footballers. Also according to Pele, the only other player who came closest to matching his (Pele’s) own skills, was Zico.
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During the 1976 Olympic Games, former gymnast Nadia Comaneci became the first person ever to score perfect 10 points in her routine on the uneven bars. The scoreboards at that time were not even equipped to display scores of 10.0 points. So Nadia’s perfect marks were reported on the boards as only 1.00 points instead.
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