Atlas Trail
Sporting Legends, Founding to Depth
From the founding four athletes and their competitions to the athletes and competitions this wave added, spanning sprinting, boxing, tennis, football, gymnastics, chess, cycling, swimming and baseball across more than a century.
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Athletes
Pele, one of the founding four, association football.
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Competitions
The FIFA World Cup Pele won three times.
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Athletes
Diego Maradona, this wave, the 1986 World Cup.
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Athletes
Muhammad Ali, one of the founding four, boxing.
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Athletes
Jesse Owens, one of the founding four, athletics.
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Athletes
Usain Bolt, this wave, the fastest human timed.
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Competitions
The Olympic Games, where six of this trail's athletes competed.
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Athletes
Serena Williams, one of the founding four, tennis.
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Athletes
Billie Jean King, this wave, the Battle of the Sexes.
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Competitions
Wimbledon, where Billie Jean King won six singles titles.
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Athletes
Garry Kasparov, this wave, chess rather than a sport in the athletic sense, and the atlas records games as first class citizens alongside sports.
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Competitions
The World Chess Championship Kasparov held for fifteen years.
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Athletes
Eddy Merckx, this wave, cycling.
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Competitions
The Tour de France Merckx won five times.
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Athletes
Jim Thorpe, this wave, the most versatile Olympian of his era.
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