Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:
This is absolutely comical. JJK is still the greatest female track athlete of all time - she has claim to the greatest female athlete ever (alongside the likes of Serena) - irrespective of sport. It's actually kind of embarrassing that readers of Athletics Weekly, one would assume that would have more specific knowledge of track and field voted this way when Sports Illustrated voted her the greatest female athlete of the entire 20th century - and this is a publication with no specific sport bias (perhaps an American bias, but it's clear there is an anti-American one at play here)
I disagree regarding the bias. I'd bet that most Brits think higher of the US than of Ethiopia.
For the most part, this is a track over field opinion, maybe based on preferences/importance/depth, as IamSam already pointed out.