Which sport has the best all around athletes?

Ice hockey because those athletes have all of this:

Strength, stamina, speed, agility, and they are incredibly tough based on the visciousness of the hitting.

Before you argue a different sport has better athletes, picture the athletes of that sport playing the sport on ice with skates on, and think if you can make the argument. Example:
Hockey players do everything a soccor player does, but are stronger, tougher (hitting) and play on ice. If full contact hitting was allowed in soccor, and they played on ice, there would be a contest. Otherwise, no. Also, if you have never skated you cant understand how hard it is to do that while pushing a puck - going forward - sideways backwards extremely fast - all the while trying to or trying not to be killed.

Originally posted by impatient
Ice hockey because those athletes have all of this:

Strength, stamina, speed, agility, and they are incredibly tough based on the visciousness of the hitting.

Before you argue a different sport has better athletes, picture the athletes of that sport playing the sport on ice with skates on, and think if you can make the argument. Example:
Hockey pl ...[text shortened]... ward - sideways backwards extremely fast - all the while trying to or trying not to be killed.

Originally posted by shavixmir
yeah... think of ice-hockey players walking a tight-rope...

Originally posted by Merk
If you call that a sport.

Originally posted by impatient
Ice hockey because those athletes have all of this:

Strength, stamina, speed, agility, and they are incredibly tough based on the visciousness of the hitting.

Before you argue a different sport has better athletes, picture the athletes of that sport playing the sport on ice with skates on, and think if you can make the argument. Example:
Hockey pl ...[text shortened]... ward - sideways backwards extremely fast - all the while trying to or trying not to be killed.

Originally posted by impatient
Ice hockey because those athletes have all of this:

Strength, stamina, speed, agility, and they are incredibly tough based on the visciousness of the hitting.

Before you argue a different sport has better athletes, picture the athletes of that sport playing the sport on ice with skates on, and think if you can make the argument. Example:
Hockey pl ...[text shortened]... ward - sideways backwards extremely fast - all the while trying to or trying not to be killed.

Originally posted by Nordlys
Take it to the Sports forum, spanky.

i wish i had a working [Thread Closed] button too

water polo might be second.
swimming i say is better.

its not stamina or strength skating on ice its balance and thats not athletic but trying to kill people on ice is athletic, i'd like to say AFL has better athletes but i have to say in NFL there pretty much aloud to bite each other 100 yards away from the ball

Probably those guys that compete in the decathlon.

ESPN thought Ice Hockey came second only to Boxing
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

Hurling, it's like ice hockey, but without protective gear on most of the players and the ball (sliotar) flies around the place and is caught in bare hands. And the hurley generally has a rusty strip of metal nailed into the end of it, even in the national games.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/theme/sport/sport_hurling.htm
Remember, generally, they don't have ANY protection on. Sometimes a helmet, but generally not.
Requires all the athletisism of Ice-hockey, with a touch of insane hatred for your own health and safety. The closest approximation of war in peacetime I've ever heard of.

Despite what former University of Miami tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. says, sport is a poor substitute for war. I'd say members of the U.S. military are some of the best conditioned people in the world.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Despite what former University of Miami tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. says, sport is a poor substitute for war. I'd say members of the U.S. military are some of the best conditioned people in the world.