Who is the best athlete of all time (any sport)

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27 Jun 07 23:12

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28 Jun 07 17:26

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Originally posted by Rooney Once a Blue
Arnold Palmer

LOL. Where is RedNight when you need his sporting wisdom?

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28 Jun 07 19:33

John Daly. The drunken John Daly.

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28 Jun 07 19:54

Jim Thorpe was the greatest athlete that ever lived.

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28 Jun 07 20:20

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28 Jun 07 21:13

Roger Federer must be approaching that level. Rafa Nadal too.. both rediculously fit and incredible tennis players (debatably the hardest 'television sport'😉.

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28 Jun 07 22:27

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The Blazeman: http://uk.

Edit: I'd put Jane Tomlinson up there too.

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28 Jun 07 22:52

tank abbot 😛

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01 Jul 07 10:45

Daley Thompson. (what a moustache!)

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01 Jul 07 23:05

Michael Jordan

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02 Jul 07 02:56

The sprinter, Jessie Owens.

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02 Jul 07 03:55

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Originally posted by lordhighgus
The sprinter, Jessie Owens.

I am not a big tennis fan but proably roger federer or miackel Jordon or Muhammad Ali or maybe Barry sanders

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02 Jul 07 04:35

daily thompson

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02 Jul 07 11:44

Its difficult to settle on just one athlete as being the greatest so lets name 10 greatest athletes of all time ,that way we might get a pretty good idea.

spurs73

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02 Jul 07 17:10

Originally posted by boarman
Its difficult to settle on just one athlete as being the greatest so lets name 10 greatest athletes of all time ,that way we might get a pretty good idea.

ok.... not in any particular order

1. maradona (football)
2. daily Thompson (ath)
3. Kapil Dev (cricket)
4. Zinaden Zidan (football)
5. Johan Luma (rugby union)
6.Barry Sunders (NFL)
7. B.Borge (tennis)
8. sir stephen redgrave (rowing)
9. Ben Johnson (ath)
10 Marlin Ottey (best female sprinter of all time)

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02 Jul 07 17:45

Originally posted by spurs73
ok.... not in any particular order

1. maradona (football)
2. daily Thompson (ath)
3. Kapil Dev (cricket)
4. Zinaden Zidan (football)
5. Johan Luma (rugby union)
6.Barry Sunders (NFL)
7. B.Borge (tennis)
8. sir stephen redgrave (rowing)
9. Ben Johnson (ath)
10 Marlin Ottey (best female sprinter of all time)

I have no idea how you rate athletes but to put Ben Johnson who had his world record stripped because of steriod use when you could put someone like Carl Lewis who one 9 sprinting gold metals seems questionable.