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The BBC asked this question this morning and I've been thinking about it a lot all day.
Apparantly, the criteria is not just a person's impact within their own sport, but in sport generally.
Personally, I'm going (albeit tentativelly) with Pele. Who was arguably the first sportsman to be thought of as a genius, in the same sense that, say, a painter was. Ali would be another obvious candidate - although for slightly different reasons.
The BBC were clearly adressing an Anglo-European audience (they mentioned David Beckham) and I'm anticipating that a country such as the US would have a radically different take on things.
So anyway, I'm going - admittedly without much confidence - for Pele.
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