7 Athletes Who Lived Their Obsession

BENAGLURU: The word ‘sporting’ has many stories within, some among them are motivational and several are inspirational. Rising from the ashes, converting impossible into possible, it has all happened in the sports, through which the world has seen many heroes.

Now, what do you think that makes them heroes? Passion! An integral part behind any successful story, hence down goes the list of players who have proved their passion, irrespective of ups and downs in their career as reported by the ScoopWhoop. 

Yuvraj Singh:

Yuvraj Singh, a popular name in the Indian cricketing world, who outperformed all other players in ICC Cricket World Cup 2013 and was awarded man of the series trophy. Shortly after the tournament, shocking news struck the Indian cricket fans; Yuvraj Singh announced that he had been suffering from a cancer even before the start of the tournament and flew to U.S. for the further treatment. After his successful diagnosis, he joined Indian cricket team in 2012.

Gabriel Medina:

Gabriel Medina, a lad from the Brazil who was champion of the 2014 ASP World Tour. Since Medina is just 21 years old, he is a nascent in the respective category of sports. His adventures story begins since he was 9 year old and in a very short succession, at the age of 11 he won the National Championship. Currently he is the youngest Brazilian to join the ASP World Champions Tour (WCT), among the top 34 best on the planet.

Mark Cavendish:

Mark Cavendish is a British professional road racing cyclist, is currently considered as one among the legends in the contemporary ear. Cavendish represents his country in the world cycling championship and has won the title for the country in 2005 and 2008. In 2006 commonwealth games he represented Isle of Man and won the gold medal.

Other than the mentioned tittles, he has won several prestigious tittles in various countries as well. Cavendish was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire by considering his contribution for the British Cycling in 2011 and subsequently won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in the same year.

Fernando Alonso:

Fernando Alonso, a Spanish F1 racer, who has been infatuated of the racing since his childhood days. He began his racing career at age of three and has never looked back since then. Alonso won three karting championships in Spain and won the World karting Champion in 1996 prior to his F1 career.

Inclining in his career graph, he debuted to Formula One in 2001 and won Formula One World Drivers' Championship title at the age of 24, the feat also made him the youngest Formula One World Drivers' Champion. Today Alonso is widely recognized for his unmatchable driving skills all around the world.

Lin Dan:

Lin Dan from china is considered as the greatest badminton player of all the time, since he has won numerous titles in the respective sports. Dan has won two-time Olympic champion, five-time world champion, and five-time All England champion and is also the only player to complete "Super Grand Slam", by winning all nine major titles in the badminton world.

Ishita Malaviya:

In country like India, wherein the game of cricket has been dominating for several decades, most of the sports enthusiastic kids are not much interest in water sports. But Ishita Malaviya is an exception to this case and is the first Indian professional female surfer. Ishita began her career in 2007 and also runs a surfing club called Shaka Surf Club in Karnataka; she is the only Indian to endorse Roxy surfwear officially.

Michael Clarke:

Michael John Clarke is a former international cricketer and captain of Australia and is widely cited as one among the greatest Australian cricket players. He made his international debut in 2003 against England and has been a middle order batting strength of the Australian cricket team.

Clarke took over the captaincy after the retirement of the Ricky Pointing, under his captaincy Australian team won its 5^th world cup championship in 2015, subsequently; he announced his retirement from all form of international cricket in the same year, after the Ashes series. In 2006 Clarke had scares on his, which was later reported as the signs of skin cancer; however he was successfully treated and is cancer fee since then. 

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