Stage set for stars and champions to add to their greatness

Djokovic aiming to complete ‘Golden Slam’; Dressel capable of emulating Phelps; Durant, Fraser-Pryce, and Riner going for a hat-trick

Each Olympics produces its share of champions. Among them, a few attain exalted positions, match or rewrite history while some others join the list of all-time greats. Over the next fortnight, a few practitioners of their chosen discipline will attempt to add to their greatness. For many, aware with the achievements of tennis star Novak Djokovic or NBA superstar Kevin Durant, names like Simone Biles, Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Wayde van Niekerk, Teddy Riner and Laurel Hubbard, among a few others, could sound familiar in the coming days. Djokovic is in line to be the first male to complete a ‘Golden Slam’, that denotes winning all the four Majors and the Olympic gold in a calendar year. Steffi Graf showed the way in 1988.