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Young guns and fresh faces ruled sports in 2008, with profound talents from soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to Canada's future king of hockey Sidney Crosby making huge waves. Michael Phelps did the same - the part-man, part-dolphin swimming stud landed in Beijing and left with more gold than a leprechaun.
Danica Patrick also made history as the first woman to win an IndyCar race; Filipino Manny Pacquiao shook up the boxing world; and the not-so-young but unapologetically fresh pugilist, Kimbo Slice, changed everything we thought we knew about mixed-martial arts. More
