I wanted to start a thread dedicated to people who are putting the FSU on the map today by the means of their achievements and visibility in the global media. Fyodor Emilianenko - MMA Fighter - Russia lets go on..
Boxers: Wladimir Klitschko Vitali Klitschko Ruslan Chagaev Oleg Maskaev Sultanahmed Ibragimov Nikolay Valuev Vladimir Virchis Alexander Dimitrenko Oleg Platov Hockey players: Yevgeniy Malkin Ilya Kovalchuk Alexander Ovechkin Alexander Semin Yevgeniy Nabokov Tennis Players: Davydenko Yuzhny Safin Basketball Players: Kirilenko Football Players: Shevchenko Kerzhakov Voronin Kaladze Hleb (?)
It is necessary to mention great figure skaters. Alexey Yagydin Evgeniy Plushenko Navka-Kostomarov Totmyanina-Marinin Petrova-Tihonov