The American sporting magazine Sports Illustrated indicates each year, since 1954, the sportsman of the year. However opened to the sportsmen of the whole world, the sportsmen honoured with the title of Sportsman off the Year are mainly American. Thus, the only title decreed for the Football was allotted to the female team of the United States, and the two only victorious racing cyclists are the Americans Lance Armstrong and Greg LeMond. In artistic gymnastics, Rumanian the Nadia Comaneci is forgotten prize list, which is not the case of the American gymnaste Mary Lou Retton.

The trophy given to the winner is a decorated ceramics vase Greek athletes.

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