View Poll Results: Greatest Atheltic Accomplishment of All time
Michael Phelps Wins 8 gold medals
51
21.52%
Lance Armstrong Takes 7 consecutive tour titles
134
56.54%
Babe Ruth - 60 home runs (14% of the home runs hit that season!)
10
4.22%
Jesse Owens'4 World Records in 70 minutes
34
14.35%
PCad finishes Top 5 in a Master's race (theoretical, IIRC)
13
5.49%
George Bush completes a sentence while sounding intelligent (total fantasy)
42
17.72%
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Greatest Athletic Accomplishments of All time?
08-17-08, 12:09 PM
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True, but every time he beats his own world record he'll get tons of press and probably quite a bit of sponsor money in compensation. If he did his fastest time yeterday, he'd get the same press he did yesterday but none in the future.
08-17-08, 12:11 PM
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08-17-08, 12:33 PM
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08-17-08, 12:37 PM
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08-17-08, 12:48 PM
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What is witty? Making incessant one line internet zingers that really lay into "freds"?
The fact that you feel "attacked" means you have some deluded sense of reality and have bought into your internet persona; you aren't some elected official being challenged by some poor guy from the wrong part of town, you're just a guy who posts far too often on an internet forum.
You react to things like a junior high school bully. Oh jeez, the other forty-posts-per-day crowd isn't here to tell you how funny you are, so you get all whiny and *****y when someone calls you out for being a d-bag. Just because some of us don't give a f*ck that you have some sort of cred within this silly little non-reality world of a bike forum for being, like, so totally outrageous! and dissing people left and right doesn't mean you have to get all sobby on us.
You do realize you just responded to someone pointing out that you post too much by calling them a name, right? That, my friend, is pure wit! It's gold! What a loser that guy is, he hardly knows that I spend hours carefully constructing my subforum persona!
The fact that you feel "attacked" means you have some deluded sense of reality and have bought into your internet persona; you aren't some elected official being challenged by some poor guy from the wrong part of town, you're just a guy who posts far too often on an internet forum.
You react to things like a junior high school bully. Oh jeez, the other forty-posts-per-day crowd isn't here to tell you how funny you are, so you get all whiny and *****y when someone calls you out for being a d-bag. Just because some of us don't give a f*ck that you have some sort of cred within this silly little non-reality world of a bike forum for being, like, so totally outrageous! and dissing people left and right doesn't mean you have to get all sobby on us.
You do realize you just responded to someone pointing out that you post too much by calling them a name, right? That, my friend, is pure wit! It's gold! What a loser that guy is, he hardly knows that I spend hours carefully constructing my subforum persona!
08-17-08, 01:19 PM
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What is witty? Making incessant one line internet zingers that really lay into "freds"?
The fact that you feel "attacked" means you have some deluded sense of reality and have bought into your internet persona; you aren't some elected official being challenged by some poor guy from the wrong part of town, you're just a guy who posts far too often on an internet forum.
You react to things like a junior high school bully. Oh jeez, the other forty-posts-per-day crowd isn't here to tell you how funny you are, so you get all whiny and *****y when someone calls you out for being a d-bag. Just because some of us don't give a f*ck that you have some sort of cred within this silly little non-reality world of a bike forum for being, like, so totally outrageous! and dissing people left and right doesn't mean you have to get all sobby on us.
You do realize you just responded to someone pointing out that you post too much by calling them a name, right? That, my friend, is pure wit! It's gold! What a loser that guy is, he hardly knows that I spend hours carefully constructing my subforum persona!
The fact that you feel "attacked" means you have some deluded sense of reality and have bought into your internet persona; you aren't some elected official being challenged by some poor guy from the wrong part of town, you're just a guy who posts far too often on an internet forum.
You react to things like a junior high school bully. Oh jeez, the other forty-posts-per-day crowd isn't here to tell you how funny you are, so you get all whiny and *****y when someone calls you out for being a d-bag. Just because some of us don't give a f*ck that you have some sort of cred within this silly little non-reality world of a bike forum for being, like, so totally outrageous! and dissing people left and right doesn't mean you have to get all sobby on us.
You do realize you just responded to someone pointing out that you post too much by calling them a name, right? That, my friend, is pure wit! It's gold! What a loser that guy is, he hardly knows that I spend hours carefully constructing my subforum persona!
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08-17-08, 01:24 PM
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Phelp's accomplishment is great. However it is not the greates athletic acomplishment of all time. He's not even the greatest olympic athlete of all time.
When you consider the relative ease of winning mulitiple medals in swimming (because of the ability to enter multiple strokes, in track they don't have the 100 meter backward, and the number of relay events.) there are a number of Olympians with much better credentials for Greatest Olympian ever.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,6214465.story
When you consider the relative ease of winning mulitiple medals in swimming (because of the ability to enter multiple strokes, in track they don't have the 100 meter backward, and the number of relay events.) there are a number of Olympians with much better credentials for Greatest Olympian ever.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,6214465.story
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08-17-08, 01:28 PM
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What is witty? Making incessant one line internet zingers that really lay into "freds"?
The fact that you feel "attacked" means you have some deluded sense of reality and have bought into your internet persona; you aren't some elected official being challenged by some poor guy from the wrong part of town, you're just a guy who posts far too often on an internet forum.
You react to things like a junior high school bully. Oh jeez, the other forty-posts-per-day crowd isn't here to tell you how funny you are, so you get all whiny and *****y when someone calls you out for being a d-bag. Just because some of us don't give a f*ck that you have some sort of cred within this silly little non-reality world of a bike forum for being, like, so totally outrageous! and dissing people left and right doesn't mean you have to get all sobby on us.
You do realize you just responded to someone pointing out that you post too much by calling them a name, right? That, my friend, is pure wit! It's gold! What a loser that guy is, he hardly knows that I spend hours carefully constructing my subforum persona!
The fact that you feel "attacked" means you have some deluded sense of reality and have bought into your internet persona; you aren't some elected official being challenged by some poor guy from the wrong part of town, you're just a guy who posts far too often on an internet forum.
You react to things like a junior high school bully. Oh jeez, the other forty-posts-per-day crowd isn't here to tell you how funny you are, so you get all whiny and *****y when someone calls you out for being a d-bag. Just because some of us don't give a f*ck that you have some sort of cred within this silly little non-reality world of a bike forum for being, like, so totally outrageous! and dissing people left and right doesn't mean you have to get all sobby on us.
You do realize you just responded to someone pointing out that you post too much by calling them a name, right? That, my friend, is pure wit! It's gold! What a loser that guy is, he hardly knows that I spend hours carefully constructing my subforum persona!
Just put him on your ignore list. I did long ago and it has made my BF experience somewhat more enjoyable.About Bolt showboating, I think it is just his youth. The guy's 21, running at his first Olympics, been running the 100m for a year, looks right and sees that he is so far ahead of his competition that it isn't even funny. Brash maybe, but that kid can run.
I would not be surprised to find out he isn't clean.
08-17-08, 01:31 PM
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Brilliant post and amazing instincts about this Botto D-bag. His response to your post with all the laughing and cheers is like when a boxer gets hit hard and smiles, you know it hurt. LOL
I call them litte quips that he makes that I guess makes him feel like he is more intelligent or superior to others. He's too cool for any lengthy responses. I envision some lonely middle aged guy living by himself with his identity coming from his love for cycling. The only "friends" he has are those in his cycling club and his answering machine never gets more than a 1/4 full of messages unless he doesn't erase his own calls to remind him to pick up milk.
My guess is that he is "living abroad" kinda like Roman Polanski does. Living in exile isn't the only thing they probably have in common.
I call them litte quips that he makes that I guess makes him feel like he is more intelligent or superior to others. He's too cool for any lengthy responses. I envision some lonely middle aged guy living by himself with his identity coming from his love for cycling. The only "friends" he has are those in his cycling club and his answering machine never gets more than a 1/4 full of messages unless he doesn't erase his own calls to remind him to pick up milk.
My guess is that he is "living abroad" kinda like Roman Polanski does. Living in exile isn't the only thing they probably have in common.
What is witty? Making incessant one line internet zingers that really lay into "freds"?
The fact that you feel "attacked" means you have some deluded sense of reality and have bought into your internet persona; you aren't some elected official being challenged by some poor guy from the wrong part of town, you're just a guy who posts far too often on an internet forum.
You react to things like a junior high school bully. Oh jeez, the other forty-posts-per-day crowd isn't here to tell you how funny you are, so you get all whiny and *****y when someone calls you out for being a d-bag. Just because some of us don't give a f*ck that you have some sort of cred within this silly little non-reality world of a bike forum for being, like, so totally outrageous! and dissing people left and right doesn't mean you have to get all sobby on us.
You do realize you just responded to someone pointing out that you post too much by calling them a name, right? That, my friend, is pure wit! It's gold! What a loser that guy is, he hardly knows that I spend hours carefully constructing my subforum persona!
The fact that you feel "attacked" means you have some deluded sense of reality and have bought into your internet persona; you aren't some elected official being challenged by some poor guy from the wrong part of town, you're just a guy who posts far too often on an internet forum.
You react to things like a junior high school bully. Oh jeez, the other forty-posts-per-day crowd isn't here to tell you how funny you are, so you get all whiny and *****y when someone calls you out for being a d-bag. Just because some of us don't give a f*ck that you have some sort of cred within this silly little non-reality world of a bike forum for being, like, so totally outrageous! and dissing people left and right doesn't mean you have to get all sobby on us.
You do realize you just responded to someone pointing out that you post too much by calling them a name, right? That, my friend, is pure wit! It's gold! What a loser that guy is, he hardly knows that I spend hours carefully constructing my subforum persona!
08-17-08, 01:47 PM
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Phelp's accomplishment is great. However it is not the greates athletic acomplishment of all time. He's not even the greatest olympic athlete of all time.
When you consider the relative ease of winning mulitiple medals in swimming (because of the ability to enter multiple strokes, in track they don't have the 100 meter backward, and the number of relay events.) there are a number of Olympians with much better credentials for Greatest Olympian ever.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,6214465.story
When you consider the relative ease of winning mulitiple medals in swimming (because of the ability to enter multiple strokes, in track they don't have the 100 meter backward, and the number of relay events.) there are a number of Olympians with much better credentials for Greatest Olympian ever.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,6214465.story
Damn, that thing is sooo biased. It may be valid, but it's approached in a piss-poor manner.For instance:
It mentions the physical forgivingness of swimming, but my mediocre career was cut short by a shoulder injury - so it's no cake walk. It also mentions his lack of the number of Olympics, but the kid's no newbie. This is his third, correct? The first when he was 15? He didn't just show up last week. The guys been undefeated in certain events at major competitions for 7 years!
The breadth of Phelps events is amazing too. From 100m free (Amer. Record) to the 400IM, the diversity in training that it takes to succeed in all those events is insane (and he beat single-event specialists). Which, of course, also underscores the impressiveness of Carl Lewis' and Jim Thorpe's feats.
Bicycling-wise, it's the lack of diversity that hurts Lance. He focused on one event (granted, for a total of over 14,000 miles w/out a major mishap!) for those seven years. It's that diversity that makes Merckx so amazing.
08-17-08, 02:14 PM
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Near enough impossible to compare across sports but i'll give my opinion. LA's 7 consecutive TDF wins is amazing. 7 years in a row he won the most prestigous event in his sport. But, this was seven years in his prime (apart from the cancer!). Steve Redgrave (English Rower), won 5 gold medals in consecutive games. Now a mere 5 medals pales in the likes of Phelps (who is incredible), but to do be at the pinnacle of your sport for 20 years is something truly great.
08-17-08, 02:19 PM
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Keep pissing on botto, he loves it. He is kinky that way. I should know.
08-17-08, 03:22 PM
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Single or lifetime athletic accomplishment?? I'll limit this to Olympic track and field.
Single...Bob Beamon's 29'2.5" long jump in 1968. Until then no one had ever jumped 28'. He became the first person to jump 28' and 29' in one leap.
Lifetime...Edwin Moses. Between 1977 and 1987 he was undefeated in 400 meter hurdle finals, winning 122 consecutive races and setting 4 world records.
Single...Bob Beamon's 29'2.5" long jump in 1968. Until then no one had ever jumped 28'. He became the first person to jump 28' and 29' in one leap.
Lifetime...Edwin Moses. Between 1977 and 1987 he was undefeated in 400 meter hurdle finals, winning 122 consecutive races and setting 4 world records.
I'd go with Javier Sotomayor of Cuba who set the world record in the high jump at 8' 1/2" in 1993 - and it has yet to be equalled, 15 yrs. later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IclEQA48IOEFor overall best athlete, you have to go with the Babe. In addition to the best hitter ever, he was one of the best pitchers. The skill set needed for those activities is probably the toughest in all of sport.
08-17-08, 03:26 PM
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It's got to be Wilt Chamberlain. Not for the 100 point NBA game, but for the 20,000 career women.
08-17-08, 03:31 PM
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Phelps is certainly amazing. He spoke at our club team annual banquet prior to last Olympics. And his Olympics teammate Cullen Jones - his club coach was my daughter's arch enemy. Cullen was (and still is) a great kid from a great family. My daughter and Rebecca Soni (Gold, Silver, Silver) were half of a club record medley relay team back when my daughter still had shoulders. 
08-17-08, 03:42 PM
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You can't deny Phelps accomplishment as great, but sorry, the sport of swimming is followed by too few (most pay absolutely no attention to it except every Olympics) and has too many events that can be x-competed with to really make this achievement a competitor for "greatest athletic achievement of all time". Michael Jordon's almost single-handedly winning six NBA championships (probably would have been eight without his foray into baseball, a gutsy move in itself) would probably be tops in my books.
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