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Sportsmen and women often achieve everything they ever want by reaching the top. However, what do some want above all else before they pop their clogs?

LEWIS HAMILTON

The Formula 1 maverick doesn’t exactly live a quiet life outside of the cockpit. Whether it’s his high-profile celebrity relationship with ex-girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger or laying down tracks with the cream of the hip-hop crop, Lewis lives the dream. The two-time world champ, though, is still keen to take on the Mack Daddy of mountains – Mount Everest. In 2013 Lewis climbed Borneo’s Mount Kinabalu, with his eyes now set on the highest in the world. The millionaire Mercedes man revealed, ‘I plan to climb a lot of mountains over the next five to ten years, and eventually the big one at the end.’

DENNIS RODMAN

‘The Worm’ led the majority of his basketball career in the harsh glare of the spotlight, his zany antics giving tabloid editors continual big smiles outside of his ferocious defensive game for the likes of the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls. Having done pretty much every outrageous thing ever known to mere mortals, Rodman revealed that he’d like to feel the wind through his hair in an entirely different way than normal for his bucket-list entry. The New Jersey boy said, ‘I want to skydive Manhattan on Fifth Avenue, butt naked.’

JAMIE CARRAGHER

Liverpool’s defensive rock for many years, Carra has gone on to grace the Sky pundit panel since his retirement. Never one to mince his words when pitted against former United rival Gary Neville, Carragher revealed an altogether bizarre wish. When asked on Twitter ‘Have you ever put a cow through a mincer?’ he replied, ‘Not yet, but it’s on the bucket list’!

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