Some create singular seminal moments that ring down decades. Others leave their respective Games laden with armfuls of medals.
Fashioning such considerations into a coherent countdown of the greatest ever summer Olympians is an almost impossibly subjective task, but one, here, that PA Olympics Correspondent Mark Staniforth has attempted.
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