If Team USA could only send one athlete to play every Olympic sport, who would you choose?

The Olympics are great. We get to see America’s best fencers, swimmers, sprinters, jumpers and rowers trying their best to take down the rest of the world, and a pretty damn high percentage of the time, they win. It’s the world’s greatest display of sport.

But too often, it’s hard to care about these amazing athletes and their events. We often only learn their stories in the seconds before their events, and it’s hard to get emotionally invested in their success. And honestly, if Team USA isn’t going to win, we probably aren’t going to watch.

I have a solution to this problem. I have devised a system to make every Olympic sport a prime time TV event, to give us an informed rooting interest in every single sport.

It’s called the One-Person Olympics, and it’s what it sounds like. It is the Olympics, but every nation is only allowed to send one person. Over the weeks and months it takes, we watch this one national hero compete in every event, from archery to wrestling to badminton to table tennis. We celebrate their successes, we hurt with their failures.

These are the rules of the One-Person Olympics:

But which hero would be the best selection as our one national superstar? Here are my top picks:

Personally, I would pick LeBron for two reasons. First of all, he’s a freak of nature. He’s 6’10, strong, fast and highly coordinated, with some of the best vision in NBA history. He’d be able to excel in a wide variety of events. I don’t think LeBron could beat out full-time shot putters or wrestlers, but in almost every event, he’d beat most athletes who weren’t participating in their preferred sport. I could see him winning medals in various races and sports he’s never played before.

Secondly, I think no matter what, America would have to ensure that it would win the men’s basketball competition. That’s our event. We have to win it. If we sent, say, a track star, we’d run the risk that Germany would send Dirk Nowitzki or Spain would send Marc or Pau Gasol. And our track star would lose at basketball to them, and we’d all be sad.

LeBron would certainly win the 1-on-1 basketball event. It would be the best sporting event you’d ever seen. At some point, he’d probably play another NBA player, like Nicolas Batum, and that would be interesting, since we never really see NBA players go as hard as they can in 1-on-1. But more importantly, we’d get to see LeBron James dunking on archers and rowers and field hockey players. Maybe he’d take it easy, but after weeks and months of playing everybody else’s sport, I’m guessing he’d go full throttle, just swatting the hell out of a Malaysian badminton champion and a Dutch cyclist. It would be amazing to watch.

On the down side: We’d have to watch Skip Bayless skewering LeBron for not being clutch enough to win at sailing, which would be the worst TV program ever.

Serena is the best women’s tennis player in the world, and right now it isn’t very close. She is better at every facet of tennis than everybody else. Serena is quick, she has ridiculous coordination that allows her to hit precise shots others can’t and oooooooooooooooh boy, is she powerful. She doesn’t just beat opponents, she demolishes with her strength. She is an American hero, a crusher of souls.

She’s a really amazing all-around athlete. Like LeBron, she’d be a competitor in a lot of events. But, my goodness, that power. I can’t remember the last time I saw an athlete in any sport who is so much stronger than everybody else in his or her sport. I have a funny feeling it’d be fun to watch Serena put her incredible athleticism to the test in sports besides tennis.

There are just sooooooooooo many swimming medals. Freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, medleys. This is how Phelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time. For three Olympics, he’s won medals in freestyle, butterfly and medleys, racking up 22 golds. And he’d be able to rack up medals in the one-person Olympics too.

I considered adding Katie Ledecky, the most dominant women’s swimmer in the world, but she specializes in freestyle. She’d max out at four or five medals in the One-Person Olympics. Phelps, even at 31, would be a contender for about 10, considering most nations wouldn’t be sending their best swimmers.

Plus, Phelps is a freakish 6’4 guy. Maybe he’d be able to use his ridiculous athleticism outside of the water, too.

Look, Simone Biles would not win a single medal outside of gymnastics. She is 4’9 and 109 pounds. She is not going to win at weightlifting. Or shot put. I assume it’s even helpful to have long arms in table tennis, and she doesn’t.

But she’s the best gymnast in the world. She’s the best all-around gymnast, she’s the best on the floor exercise, she’s the best on the balance beam, she’s one of the best at the vault and she’s not bad at the uneven bars, even if it’s not her best event.

Like with Phelps, she’d have the opportunity to rack up the medals. While Ledecky or Eaton might only be able to win in their respective events, Biles is coming home with four or five medals. And that’s the point of the One-Person Olympics.

Watch her! If you have ever doubted the athleticism of gymnastics athletes, watch Biles. The explosiveness, strength, coordination and, of course, flexibility required to do the things Biles does is absolutely off the charts. I might be fine punting on the rest of the events if we get to watch her totally wreck shop in gymnastics.

Eaton, in case you don’t know, is the best decathlete in the world. In fact, he’s probably the best decathlete of all time. He hasn’t lost in major competition since 2011, and he has broken his own world record for most points in a decathlon. The decathlon supposedly awards the world’s best athlete, and Eaton dominates the sport like nobody ever has.

Is Eaton actually the world’s best all-around athlete? To be honest, I doubt it. I suspect the world’s best athlete plays in the NBA, NFL or an international soccer or rugby league. Those leagues pay a lot of money and are intensely popular, so the person who is the world’s best overall athlete probably participates in one of them.

But it would still be cool to send somebody who excels in such a purely Olympic event. The decathlon has been a way of finding the best since ancient Greece, and it would only make sense to send the best person ever to participate in decathlon to try to win as many medals as possible.

Whether he would win a lot of golds, I’m not sure. He’d probably get beaten by specialists in various sports. He wouldn’t outrow a rower, beat a tennis player in tennis. Even though he throws the javelin farther than any other decathletes, he would get outthrown by an actual champion javelin thrower, so if another country sent a top-notch javelin guy, Eaton would be out of luck.

But his combination of strength, speed, explosiveness and coordination would make him a contender across the board. He’d probably win gold in decathlon and put up a string of silvers and bronzes in other events.

Gray is a female heavyweight wrestler, and she’s the best in the world. She’s a back-to-back world champion, and at last year’s world championships in Las Vegas, she outscored her opponents 49-4. She’s won her last 38 matches, winning the finals of the Olympic trials in just 65 seconds.

A lot of Gray’s brilliance is impeccable technique. But against the strongest competition in the world -- literally, they are the strongest weight class -- she absolutely dominates.

Remember what I said about how in the One-Person Olympics, weight classes would be eliminated? That completely changes the type of athlete you’re sending. You’re looking for someone with sheer power to obliterate the competition in all of the strength events. Gray would win at wrestling, and she’d outpower many of her opponents in other combat sports like boxing. Plus, other events like weightlifting and field events based on throwing things far, she would have a shot.

Look, Dwayne is not an Olympic athlete. But maybe this isn’t about the sports. Maybe this is about having somebody we can all cheer for, seeing them take on tasks, and attempt to conquer them.

And Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will conquer them.

I can think of nobody else I would rather cheer for.