TimesofIndia.com brings you a listing of the highest six most searched athletes on Google in 2021:
1. Christian Eriksen (Danish Footballer)
Christian Eriksen, who’s the one footballer on the top-10 record for 2021, was probably the most Googled sports activities particular person within the 12 months passed by. The Denmark worldwide, who performs as an attacking midfielder, collapsed on the sector throughout a Euro 2020 match in opposition to Finland after struggling a cardiac arrest earlier in June in entrance of hundreds of house followers at Copenhagen’s Parken Stadium. And that’s the reason he was extensively searched on Google. Eriksen, the spine of Denmark’s midfield for over a decade, received quick medical consideration and the CPR given by the on-field docs saved his life.
Christian Eriksen (AP Photograph)
Earlier this month, Eriksen had began figuring out on the coaching floor of his youth membership Odense Boldklub in Denmark following his rehabilitation. Eriksen‘s contract with Inter Milan was not too long ago terminated. The Italian Serie A membership mentioned the Danish worldwide was suspended from taking part in in Italy due to his cardiac gadget implant. In response to the membership, the Italian medical authority had suspended Eriksen from taking part in in Serie A, resulting from a rule prohibiting using an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) gadget.
2. Tiger Woods (American golfer)
{Golfing} legend Woods is second on the record of probably the most searched athletes on Google for 2021. The winner of 15 main championships had a horrific automotive accident in February this 12 months and was hospitalised in Los Angeles with a number of leg accidents when his automotive swerved off a street and rolled down a steep hillside within the suburbs.
Tiger Woods (Reuters Photograph)
Woods had a miraculous escape, nevertheless it required rescue crews to pry him from the wreckage. Woods, 45, who has endured a sequence of again and knee accidents in recent times, is taken into account to be the best golfer of his technology. He’s the one fashionable professional to win all 4 main golf titles in succession, taking the US Open, British Open and PGA Championship in 2000 and the Masters title in 2001, a feat that grew to become generally known as the Tiger Slam.
Woods held the highest spot in skilled golf’s world rankings for a document whole of 683 weeks, successful 14 main championship titles from 1997 to 2008. The ever-fighting Woods not too long ago made a comeback on the PNC Championship with 12-year-old son Charlie ten months after shattering his proper leg in a automotive crash. The daddy-son duo completed second in that event, behind the Dalys. The Tiger is wounded however able to pounce with the Masters now simply 4 months away.
3. Simone Biles (American gymnast)
American gymnast Biles, who was not too long ago named Time journal’s ‘Athlete of the Yr’, is third on this record. One of many largest taking factors this 12 months was Biles withdrawing from a lot of the competitors on the Tokyo Olympics during which she was the favorite to win as many as 5 gold medals.
Simone Biles (AP Photograph)
Biles pulled out of a lot of the occasions she was scheduled to participate in citing psychological well being considerations. The 24-year-old, who has seven Olympic medals (4 gold, one silver, two bronze) revealed that she did not wish to put her “well being and well-being” in peril. Nevertheless, she did not return house empty handed from the Olympics this time, successful a bronze within the stability beam occasion, which was her seventh Olympic medal total. Biles’s choice to offer her psychological well being precedence as she handled what gymnasts name ‘the twisties’ – when the thoughts and physique fall out of sync – sparked a worldwide dialog.
The American who’s tied as probably the most adorned gymnast of all time mentioned her group wished her to go forward and compete however she did not wish to put a medal in danger. Weeks after speaking about athletes’ psychological well being on the Tokyo Video games, Olympic gymnast Biles appeared earlier than the US Senate Judiciary Committee to sentence USA Gymnastics, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and FBI within the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case. She blamed Larry Nassar and the whole system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse.
4. Emma Raducanu (British Tennis participant)
Raducanu, who holds the No. 4 spot on this record, aced her championship level to finish a fairytale on the US Open. The 18-year-old grew to become the primary British girl to win a significant since 1977. Raducanu surprised the sporting world in September when she grew to become the primary qualifier to win a Grand Slam title after beating Canada’s Leylah Fernandez within the last at Flushing Meadows.
Raducanu was not too long ago voted BBC Sports activities Character of the Yr, receiving British sport’s annual particular person accolade as a reward for her outstanding US Open triumph. Britain’s Andy Murray was the final tennis participant to win the award in 2016 after claiming the trophy additionally in 2015 and 2013.
Emma Raducanu (Reuters Photograph)
Raducanu has loved blended fortunes since her Grand Slam triumph, dropping early at Indian Wells in the US and going out within the quarter-finals in Romania earlier than being crushed within the first spherical of the Linz Open in Austria. She was additionally compelled to tug out of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition occasion in Abu Dhabi after testing optimistic for COVID-19.
5. Henry Ruggs III (American Soccer Participant – NFL)
Henry, who’s an American soccer participant, takes the fifth spot on the record of probably the most searched athletes on Google in 2021. Ruggs was concerned in a automotive crash that left a lady and her canine lifeless in November this 12 months. The Las Vegas Raiders launched Ruggs simply hours after the crash.
Ruggs was Raiders’ first choose within the 2020 NFL draft, from Alabama, and he had been an rising participant for the group this season. Tina Tintor, 23, and her canine have been burned to loss of life in a pre-dawn crash attributable to former Las Vegas Raiders wideout Henry.
Henry Ruggs III (Getty Photos)
In response to police, Ruggs’ automotive struck Tintor’s SUV with “such violent pressure ” that it instantly burst into flames, trapping her and her canine inside regardless of rescue efforts on the scene. Ruggs’s blood alcohol restrict was measured at 0.161% – greater than twice the authorized restrict in Nevada. He was charged with – driving beneath the affect leading to loss of life and reckless driving.
6. Neeraj Chopra (Indian javelin thrower)
Tokyo Olympics gold-medallist Neeraj Chopra is available in sixth on the record of most searched athletes on Google in 2021. Neeraj additionally topped the record of most searched personalities from India record within the 12 months, alongside Aryan Khan and Shehnaaz Gill.
Neeraj scripted historical past by turning into the first-ever observe and discipline athlete to win a gold medal for India on the Olympics. The 23-year-old-athlete introduced glory to the nation along with his mammoth throw of 87.58m on the Tokyo Video games. His first throw was recorded at 87.03m. His second throw was at 87.58m which sealed the gold, and his third throw touched 76.79m. Neeraj additionally grew to become solely India’s second Olympic gold medallist in a person occasion after Abhinav Bindra’s capturing gold on the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Neeraj Chopra (TOI Photograph)
Neeraj, who had already received gold medals on the Asian Video games and Commonwealth Video games, had additionally damaged his personal nationwide document that was set within the 2018 Asian Video games (88.06m) with a throw of 88.07m in his fifth try in March 2021 within the third Indian Grand Prix in Patiala.
Neeraj shot to fame within the 2016 U-20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The then 19-year-old Neeraj grabbed the gold medal with a throw of 86.48m which additionally helped him break the earlier U-20 World Report of Latvian javelin thrower Zigsimunds Sirmais by virtually two meters.