L'Équipe Champion of Champions
L'Équipe Champion of Champions refers to four awards presented by the daily sports newspaper L'Équipe, to female and male international sports athletes and female and male French sports athletes.
Athletics sportsman Usain Bolt has won the most awards (5).
Lionel Messi is the only footballer to win the award twice.
L'Équipe is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby, motorsport, and cycling. Its predecessor, L'Auto, was a general sports paper that also covered auto racing which was gaining popularity at the turn of the twentieth century.
The front page of L'Équipe on 4 July 2011
Maurice Garin (1871–1957), winner of the first Tour de France