Sbeefyk1 wrote:
why?no wrote:
a great athlete is versatile. bolt can just run fast for a few seconds. what else can he do?
He plays soccer, cricket, and does the long jump that I know of.
He is definitely in the discussion. I would say, however, that Bo Jackson is the greatest athlete of all time. In my opinion.
Thorpe competed against zero black people. Kind of like saying Ty Coob was the best baseball player. Totally discounting a large sect of society.
Bo Jackson would have annual aged Thorpe at just about anything. Dude ran 1000 yards in 8 games without an NFL training camp and holds the record for runs of 90 yards or more ( second is 2). Only played like an equivalent of 2.5 years.
He's not the greatest at diving, for sure. As someone else pointed out, skinny people like many Chinese are better at that for not splashing. I can't see Bolt not splashing.
swimmer wrote:
nah. phelps is better at swimming than he is at running. but there are more important things than being able to run or swim fast.
This guy is the greatest athlete
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Black Lives Matter wrote:
This guy is the greatest athlete
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Bolt is only the best athlete every four years. In other years, most people don't give a crap about olympics sports. After the olympics, people will turn their attention back to soccer, tennis, golf, etc.
why?no wrote:
a great athlete is versatile. bolt can just run fast for a few seconds. what else can he do?
swimmer wrote:
nah. phelps is better at swimming than he is at running. but there are more important things than being able to run or swim fast.
I would destroy him at Table Tennis. It wouldn't even be close.
No, I'm a distance runner
Haille Gebresallie, Kennesia Bekele, Jim Ryun, Jim Peters, the guy who beat Bekele and El G in 5K., El G, Daniel Komen,
Wilt is the GOAT.
Jim Thorpe
ck3237 wrote:
No, I'm a distance runner
Haille Gebresallie, Kennesia Bekele, Jim Ryun, Jim Peters, the guy who beat Bekele and El G in 5K., El G, Daniel Komen,
He's in the discussion, along with Jordan, Gretzky, Jim Brown -- people who are just head & shoulders above others in their sport. Big a T&F fan as I am, I can't think of any other T&F athletes who were just so much better than their competitors, especially not over a such long period. Maybe Nurmi.
Other people have brought up Bo Jackson, who was amazing but had his career(s) cut way too short to put him in the discussion.
Tom Brady should be in the convo
hehe
Seriously, Ashton Eaton has to be in the convo.
1955 wrote:
He's in the discussion, along with Jordan, Gretzky, Jim Brown -- people who are just head & shoulders above others in their sport. Big a T&F fan as I am, I can't think of any other T&F athletes who were just so much better than their competitors, especially not over a such long period. Maybe Nurmi.
Other people have brought up Bo Jackson, who was amazing but had his career(s) cut way too short to put him in the discussion.
Phelps = Overrated wrote:
swimmer wrote:
nah. phelps is better at swimming than he is at running. but there are more important things than being able to run or swim fast.
Nowhere near, Phelps doesn't even have the freestyle world records, which is the king event.
It's easy to recover from swims and most of his medals are relays, in which he wasn't even the quickest of quartet.
OJ's friend wrote:
OJ SImpson is the greatest.
Throwing, catching, running, hiding, stabbing, evading, riding in a car, robbing, banging, , wearing gloves, acting, being on tv, a bunch of stuff
