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A sportsperson (American English: Sports person), (gendered as sportsman or sportswoman) or athlete is a person trained to compete in a sport involving physical strength, speed or endurance. Sportspeople may be professional or amateur.
Most professional sportspeople have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise accompanied by a strict dietary regimen.
The word "athlete" is a romanization of the Greek: άθλητὴς, athlētēs, one who participates in a contest; from ἂθλος, áthlos, or ἂθλον, áthlon, a contest or feat. The term may be used as a synonym for sportspeople in general, but it also has stronger connotations of people who compete in athletic sports, as opposed to other sporting types such as horse riding and driving. In British English (as well as other variants in the Commonwealth) athlete can also have a more specific meaning of people who compete in the sport of athletics.
An "all-around athlete" is a person who competes in multiple sports at a high level, for instance, someone who plays both basketball and baseball professionally. Examples of people who played numerous sports professionally are Jim Thorpe, Lionel Conacher, Deion Sanders (male), Danny Ainge (male) and Babe Zaharias (female). Others include Ricky Williams, Bo Jackson, and Damon Allen, each of whom was drafted both by Major League Baseball and by professional gridiron football leagues such as the NFL and the CFL. Another example is Kazushi Sakuraba, a Japanese athlete who competed in both professional wrestling and mixed martial arts and succeeded in both sports. Many Japanese martial artists compete in both wrestling and MMA due to their strong promotions and similarities.
Actors: Aleksandr Baluev (actor), Andrey Krasko (actor), Vladimir Steklov (actor), Sergey Selyanov (producer), Nikolay Smorchkov (actor), Vladimir Kashpur (actor), Aleksandr Borodyanskiy (writer), Marat Basharov (actor), Pavel Lungin (writer), Pavel Lungin (director), Vladimir Mashkov (actor), Levan Uchaneishvili (actor), Sergey Yushkevich (actor), Sophie Brunet (editor), Mariya Mironova (actress),
Plot: During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
Keywords: assassination, based-on-novel, corrupt-politician, corruption, friendship, funeral, greed, murder, nonlinear-timeline, political-thrillerActors: Ernst Romanov (actor), Oleg Fomin (actor), Vyacheslav Baranov (actor), Lyudmila Lobza (actress), Aleksandr Martynov (actor), Igor Slobodskoy (actor), Osip Nayduk (actor), Pyotr Benyuk (actor), Anatoli Lukyanenko (actor), Viktor Plyut (actor), Anatoli Ivanov (director), Zakirzhan Muminov (actor), Mariya Selyanskaya (actress), Ulmas Yusupov (actor), Vladimir Kostyuk (actor),
Genres: Drama,