We all know what the best single athletic performance ever was.
What is #2?
We all know what the best single athletic performance ever was.
What is #2?
aouita chasing after cram in '85 is high up there
kip's 1'41.2 in zurich off 48.3 although number 3, easily rates as 2nd greatest over 800 & imo probably shoud be number 1
demus, when heading for 52.5 & maybe even the wr in '04, but clipped last hurdle but still recovered for a low-53 is one for the women's 400h
for tj, this one easily :
What is the first greatest? 3k record?
Maybe it's Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in a basket game (or his record with women).
Maybe Gebs 12:44 smashing of the 5000 record.
Maybe Sotomayor's 8 feet.
toro wrote:
Maybe it's Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in a basket game (or his record with women).
Maybe Gebs 12:44 smashing of the 5000 record.
Maybe Sotomayor's 8 feet.
Forgive me, but I don't understand how 12:44 is "greater" than the current record of 12:37. Even Geb ran faster than 12:44.
It took 8 years for the record to go from 12:58 to 12:55.
One race to go from 12:55 to 12:44.
Geb redefined distance running and its mental barriers in that one race.
I thought the single greatest performance was that dump on the home page today who ran a marathon with no training?!
Here is a hint for #1.
It is an Olympic event so no 3K.
It is not a current World Record.
His name was Bob.
toro wrote:
Here is a hint for #1.
It is an Olympic event so no 3K.
It is not a current World Record.
His name was Bob.
Bob Mathias winning the Olympic decathlon at 17?
toro wrote:
It took 8 years for the record to go from 12:58 to 12:55.
One race to go from 12:55 to 12:44.
Geb redefined distance running and its mental barriers in that one race.
Or showed the power of EPO.
1-A 9.69
1-B Sir Roger Bannister's sub 4 min clocking
He's insinuating that it's Beamon. Not sure that I disagree either.
toro wrote:
Here is a hint for #1.
It is an Olympic event so no 3K.
It is not a current World Record.
His name was Bob.
Bob Beamon, Long Jump, 1968 Mexico City.
Somebody want to start a new thread debating this assertion?
already addressed.
trolling on the river wrote:
Bob Beamon, Long Jump, 1968 Mexico City.
Somebody want to start a new thread debating this assertion?
Are we talking "athletics" as in strictly track and field or simply the generic form of "athletic".
Because if it's the latter, then the greatest performance ever wasn't even by a human being.
Average_Joe wrote:
Are we talking "athletics" as in strictly track and field or simply the generic form of "athletic".
Because if it's the latter, then the greatest performance ever wasn't even by a human being.
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/secretariatcom_2140_10841786
It wasn't by a damned horse either. A two week old pronghorn would have destroyed Secretariat - probably could have run the last quarter backwards and still won.
In my lifetime of being a track fan(1984 on), two performances clearly stand out by the extreme reaction of observers:
Ben Johnson 9.79
Michael Johnson 19.32
'demus, when heading for 52.5 & maybe even the wr in '04, but clipped last hurdle but still recovered for a low-53 is one for the women's 400h'
That's you all over always on about what could have been. Do you really get the idea of a hurdles race? What is the difference if a runner goes slower because of leg speed or hitting a hurdle. They are bloody low enough for the women anyway!
Best performances are subjective unless just on time. as these will all be beat (apart from the rampant roid list on the girls side) then if judged on time they will all one day seem inferior
17.63 though are you joking - he looks young but let me know when he does 18.30
toro wrote:
It took 8 years for the record to go from 12:58 to 12:55.
One race to go from 12:55 to 12:44.
Geb redefined distance running and its mental barriers in that one race.
I wouldn't rely on that. It didn't take that long to go from 12:44 to 12:37, either, but by your logic it should have taken much longer and Geb should have been a once-in-a-lifetime exception. I would reserve that for someone like Komen who puts his records out of reach of even the other super-talents today.
If you're talking about "athletics" as the British call them, then Beamon's long jump is certainly right up there. If you're talking about any human sporting achievement, I'm tempted to vote for James Buster Douglas over Mike Tyson in Tokyo.