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Sir David Robert Joseph Beckham (born 2 May 1975) is an English former professional footballer, the president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City.Primarily a right midfielder and known for his range of passing, crossing ability and set-piece taking, Beckham is considered one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest set-piece specialists of all time. He won 19 major trophies in his career, and is the only English player to win league titles in four different countries: England, France, Spain, and the United States. 

Beckham's professional club career began with Manchester United, where he made his first-team debut in 1992 at age 17.  With United, he won the Premier League title six times, the FA Cup twice, the FA Charity Shield twice, the Intercontinental Cup, and the UEFA Champions League in 1999. He then played four seasons with Real Madrid, winning the La Liga title in his final season with the club. In July 2007, Beckham signed a five-year contract with Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy; it was widely cited as a historic transfer for US football.While a Galaxy player, he spent two loan spells in Italy with AC Milan in 2009 and 2010, and became the first British footballer to play 100 Champions League games. He returned to Galaxy and won the MLS Cup in 2011 and 2012. Following a four-month stint at Paris Saint-Germain, he retired in May 2013 after a 21-year career. 

In international football, Beckham made his England debut on 1 September 1996, at the age of 21. He was captain for six years, earning 58 caps during his tenure.He made 115 career appearances in total, appearing at threeFIFA World Cups in 1998, 2002and 2006 as well as two UEFA European Championships in 2000 and 2004. Beckham held the England appearance record for an outfield player until 2016.

Linford Christie OBE (born 2 April 1960) is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter and athletics coach. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, theWorld Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He was the first European athlete to break the 10-second barrier in the 100m and held the British record in the event for close to 30 years. He is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay.

He remains one of the most highly decorated British athletes of all-time. By the end of his track career Christie had won 24 medals overall, more than any other British male athlete before or since. In 1993 he was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori MBE (born 1970 in Milan) is the son of Italian champion jockey Gianfranco Dettori. At the age of fourteen he went to Newmarket in England to work first as a stable lad, later as apprentice jockey and stable jockey in the yard of Luca Cumani, winning the British champion apprentice jockey in 1989. He was appointed stable jockey for Sheikh Mohammed's newly founded Godolphin Racing in 1994 and during the next eighteen years rode most of his worldwide big race victories in Godolphin's royal-blue colours. In 2000 Dettori and fellow jockey Ray Cochrane survived a light aircraft crash at Newmarket.

He was based in England for a career spanning over 35 years. He was British flat racing Champion Jockey three times (1994, 1995 and 2004) and rode the winners of 287 Group 1 races including 23 winners of the British Classic Races. His most celebrated achievement was riding all seven winners on British Festival of Racing Day at Ascot Racecourse on 28 September 1996: his very own ‘Magnificent Seven’..

Frankie Dettori is a true champion and a living legend within his own sport of horse racing.

In 2023, he added another Royal Ascot Gold Cup win to make it a ‘Golden Nine’ with a total of 81 Royal Ascot winning rides.

Outside racing he has worked in TV, appearing as a team captain on A Question of Sport from 2002 to 2004, and opened several Italian restaurants in partnership with chef Marco Pierre White.

In September 1993, Dettori was signed to ride Sheikh Mohammed's horses trained by Gosden. Determined to secure the 1994 jockey championship, Dettori took a break in Morocco to get fit for the beginning of the all-weather season in January and get a head start on jockeys who only rode on turf.  By the end of the 1994 season, he had ridden 233 British winners and won the first of his three jockey championships. His first British Classic success came in the 1994 Epsom Oakson Godolphin filly Balanchine, trained bySaeed bin Suroor. Three weeks later the pair won the Irish Derby at The Curragh.In November 1994 Sheikh Mohammed's Cumani-trained Barathea provided Dettori with the first of his fourteen Breeders' Cup victories, winning theBreeders' Cup Mile.When Sheikh Mohammed set up the Godolphin international racing operation in 1994, Dettori, who had already ridden the Sheikh's horses in training with Gosden, was signed as retained jockey. The association would last eighteen years. 

Sir Jason Francis Kenny(born 23 March 1988) is an English former track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints. Kenny is the winner of most Olympic gold medals (7) and medals (9) by a British athlete. Kenny's seven Olympic gold medals place him joint 15th in gold medals won in the Summer Olympic games since 1896. He holds the records for both most Olympic golds and most Olympic medals won by a cyclist.

With seven gold and two silver medals, Kenny is both the most successful cyclist in Olympic history and the most successful British Olympian overall. His wife,Laura Kenny, is the most successful female British athlete in the history of the games (with five gold medals and one silver); together they are the most successful married couple in Summer Olympic history where both spouses have won at least one gold medal.

Sir Andrew Barron Murray(born 15 May 1987) is a British former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked as the world No. 1in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray won 46 ATP Tour singles titles, including three majors at the 2012 US Open, 2013 Wimbledon Championships, and 2016 Wimbledon Championships. He also won two gold medals at the Summer Olympics, the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals, 14 Masters events, and contested a total of eleven major finals.

Originally coached by his motherJudy alongside his older brotherJamie, Murray moved to Barcelona at age 15 to train at the Sánchez-Casal Academy. He began his professional career around the time Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal established themselves as the two dominant players in men's tennis. Murray had immediate success on the ATP Tour, making his top 10 debut in 2007 at age 19. By 2010, Murray and Novak Djokovic had joined Federer and Nadal in the Big Four, the group of players who dominated men's tennis for most of the 2010s. 

Murray initially struggled against the rest of the Big Four, losing his first four major finals (three to Federer and one to Djokovic), the fourth being in the 2012 Wimbledon final on 8 July 2012, where Federer won in 4 sets. Just 4 weeks later, back on the grass courts of All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Murray would breakthrough by defeating Federer 6–2, 6–1, 6–4 to win the 2012 London Olympics gold medal and followed it up by defeating Djokovic to win the 2012 US Open, becoming the first British major singles champion sinceVirginia Wade in 1977. He then beat Djokovic to win Wimbledon in 2013, the first home champion at the men's event sinceFred Perry in 1936. After an injury-marred 2014, he bounced back in 2015, helping Great Britain to its first Davis Cup title in the Open Era, winning a record 11 rubbers in the event.

Murray had his career-best season in 2016, when he made the finals of the first three majors of the year, and after losing the Australian Open final and French final, Murray won his second Wimbledon crown. He defended his Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics to become the only player, male or female, to win two Olympic gold medals in singles. Murray also became world No. 1 for the first time on 7 November 2016, and clinched the year-end No. 1 ranking by winning the Tour Finals title over Djokovic. At the end of the 2016 season he was named ITF World Champion, the only player outside the Big Three to claim the honour between 2004 and 2024, solidifying his place in the 'Big Four'.

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