Track and Field News: Carl Lewis is the greatest t&f athlete ever. Haile G #2. #3 Usain Bolt, #4 Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson? The Grand Slam Track guy? He ran?

USC alum Tosh won 9 major maras

Sounds about right to me. (Pseudoephedrine? Who gives a F).

Doper, and proven. Haile, Usain, Johnson not proven dopers.

Ya ya, especially Edwin Moses 🤓

Maybe. Still doesn't eliminate the reality he was the most well known and popular athlete in track and field when track and field was at it's most relevant as a global sport.

With respect to HG, UB and MJ - "not proven" dopers? You really want to die on that hill?

It was more than that. That was just from one test before the ‘88 games. Read all the material and interviews available with Dr. Hexum. Lewis was a walking chemical factory, steroids, stimulants, you name it. At one of the Pepsi meets back in the 80s at UCLA I was right next to Lewis for a few minutes and the amount of acne covering his body was actually disturbing. I was definitely not the only one who noticed either.

People, it's LITERALLY just a tabulation of all-time rankings points, year by year, event by event. There's no judgment (in the big picture), no GOAT assumptions. Obviously, longevity and multiple events helps ... Lewis and Geb are always going to have more rankings points than Bubka or Mondo. Doesn't necessarily mean they're greater.

I love lists like that ... just don't make it mean more than it means.

Carl Lewis hit a jump at Milrose when it was still in the Garden, unsure of the year, that went 30’.

He fouled by a toe, people who were there, my brother (his college teammate at Houston) describe it as ‘a man defying gravity’.

I saw Carl run the 100 at the Pre meet in 1982. Early season, pedestrian time, but still he was magnificent. The crowd went APESHlT -- OK, so he was a better long jumper than a sprinter. But the dude had charisma. What a performance.

I guess Salazar paced Centro Sr. to an AR 5000 in the same meet. Not a bad day.

Come every one knows Usain Bolt is the Greatest track athlete. Triple Triple. No one will ever do that.

Flojo

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Dan Obrien

We should include relays/XC/hurdles/road/field