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It signaled not only Ghana's long-awaited arrival at football biggest global gathering but also a fulfillment of a prediction in 1990 by Cameroon legend Roger Milla that the world had not seen the best of African football until the Black Stars made it to the World Cup.
Joe Bastianich's evolution from bon vivant to endurance athlete is something of a New York food world legend by now.
While the rest of the world reacted with stunned disbelief -- legend has it several British newspapers didn't report the score at first, fearing that it had been mistyped and England had really won 10-0 -- back home Team USA's exploits had been met with almost complete indifference.
The affection was recognised world-wide where he is established as a legend of the fight game.
They were the Rainbow Warriors of Indian legend, who would come to heal the world when it was sick.
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Earlier this year, the Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe, holder of nine Olympic medals made world-wide news by re-entering the pool with his sights set on London.
When we looked at the highest-paid athletes in the world three years ago, Tiger Woods narrowly topped the list ahead of German Formula One legend Michael Schumacher.
The Gulf countries have only previously been able to attract soccer stars at the twilight of their career, such as World Cup winning Italian defender Fabio Cannavaro and Real Madrid legend Raul.
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The legend of an alien landing in Roswell spread across the country, and then the world.
And yet, by the time it was finally demolished, in 1998, Building 20 had become a legend of innovation, widely regarded as one of the most creative spaces in the world.
Reality is that numbers alone have to be taken with a bucketful of salt in evaluating coaches like Martinez or, indeed, David Moyes, who landed one of the biggest gigs in the world game last week when he was appointed to succeed the retiring legend Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
"It was fantastic to discover this talent amongst us, " added the British multihull legend, who in April was a member of the fastest crew to race around the world.
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Sianis went to Wrigley Field to support the Cubs as they battled the Detroit Tigers in the World Series, according to his tavern's website, which dedicates a page to the legend of the Billy Goat curse.
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