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Old 21-06-2007, 04:43 AM   #1 (permalink)
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50 greatest sportsmen of all time
http://www.lonelythinker.com/rankings553.html
  1. Pele - Soccer
  2. Jim Thorpe - Football, Track and Field
  3. Muhammad Ali - Boxing
  4. Jessie Owens - Track and Field
  5. Michael Jordan - Basketball
  6. Carl Lewis - Track and Field
  7. Jack Nicklaus - Golf
  8. Wayne Gretzky - Ice Hockey
  9. Jean-Claude Killy - Skiing
  10. Garfield Sobers - Cricket
  11. Garrincha - Soccer
  12. Hank Aaron - Baseball
  13. Miguel Indurain - Cycling
  14. Aryton Senna - Motor Racing
  15. Johan Cruyff - Soccer
  16. Pete Sampras - Tennis
  17. Diego Maradona - Soccer
  18. Paavo Nurmi - Track and Field
  19. Rod Laver - Tennis
  20. Jahanghir Khan - Squash
  21. Tiger Woods - Golf
  22. Wilt Chamberlain - Basketball
  23. Babe Ruth - Baseball
  24. Jim Brown - Football
  25. Lasse Viren - Track and Field
  26. Mark Spitz - Swimming
  27. Willie Mays - Baseball
  28. Bobby Orr - Ice Hockey
  29. Sugar Ray Leonard - Boxing
  30. Stanley Matthews - Soccer
  31. Donald Bradman - Cricket
  32. Eddie Merckx - Cycling
  33. Sergei Bubka - Pole Vaulting
  34. Johnny Weismuller - Swimming
  35. Bjorn Borg - Tennis
  36. Viktor Barna - Table Tennis
  37. Greg Louganis - Diving
  38. Jerry Rice - Football
  39. Bernard Hinault - Cycling
  40. Henry Armstrong - Boxing
  41. Geoff Hunt - Squash
  42. Ferenc Puskas - Soccer
  43. Joe Montana - Football
  44. Juan Manuel Fangio - Motor Racing
  45. Ty Cobb - Baseball
  46. Willie Shoemaker - Horse Racing
  47. Gareth Edwards - Rugby
  48. Imran Khan - Cricket
  49. Dale Earnhardt - NASCAR
  50. Matt Biondi - Swimming

An old list but still worth checking.
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Old 21-06-2007, 05:08 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 21-06-2007, 05:23 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 21-06-2007, 05:32 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Some notable omissions I feel
Lance Armstrong
Ian Thorpe
Lou Gehrig
Jessie Owens
Grant Hackett
John Eales
Schumaker
Arnold Palmer
just to name a few off the top of my head
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Some notable omissions I feel
Lance Armstrong
Ian Thorpe
Lou Gehrig
Jessie Owens
Grant Hackett
John Eales
Schumaker
Arnold Palmer
just to name a few off the top of my head
Jessie Owens is in there mate. #4
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Dodgy list IMO. There have been 30 sportsmen greater than Bradman? Hmm.
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Old 21-06-2007, 05:44 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Dodgy list IMO. There have been 30 sportsmen greater than Bradman? Hmm.
**** Bradman, where's Chris Greenacre?
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Earnhardt should be higher imo and also where are the American Football players???
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Some notable omissions I feel
Lance Armstrong
Ian Thorpe
Lou Gehrig
Jessie Owens
Grant Hackett
John Eales
Schumaker
Arnold Palmer
just to name a few off the top of my head
Think the list might have been made before Armstrong's fifth TdF, it's dated 2002.

Very dodgy list on outside the US stuff though. Virén on the list but not Zátopek, Jonathan Edwards or Al Oerter? Indurain ahead of Merckx (Indurain only won time trials, which helped him win overall)? Not too familiar with the squash but surely snooker or Aussie rules carries at least equal prestige? And where are the footballers post-1975 (Maradona aside?) - Platini, Romario, even Zidane ought to have been on in 2002.
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#2, #24, #38, #43...
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Cue Fraz to open this thread and post "Where's Shoaib"?
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Mr PG Brock. One of the finest.

Dunno about him making an all-time top 50 list, but he sure as hell should be up there in the next 50.
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Mr PG Brock. One of the finest.

Dunno about him making an all-time top 50 list, but he sure as hell should be up there in the next 50.
Come on mate ..even a parochial Aussie like me Brocky was the best in OZ but in a top 50 of all time ..I don't think so.
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