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Greatest Sportspersons/athletes of All Time

capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

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Comparing athletes across various sports isn't always the clearest task to do. Many parameters had been used in the past by various individuals, none with really great success. But anyways, who do you guys consider, like the Top 10-15 athletes/sportspersons of all time? Mine would probably be like (no particular order):

1. Don Bradman
2. Aleksandr Karelin
3. Lionel Messi
4. Wayne Gretzky
5. Gaius Appuleius Diocles
6. Muhammad Ali
7. Michael Phelps
8. Michael Jordan
9. Usain Bolt
10. Jesse Owens
11. Roger Federer
12. Babe Ruth
13. Hakuho Sho
14. Dhyan Chand
15. Tiger Woods

Tried to include athletes every major sports, but wasn't able to include American/Australian football and Rugby due to my vastly limited knowledge on them (aka, no existent knowledge, have heard of Tom Brady). Also no one from Ping Pong, badminton and gymnastics.... Would like to know about the GOATs in them.
 
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capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

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nightprowler10 said:
As much as I hate to say it, you have to include the 39 year old dunking on fools in the NBA right now.
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LeBron James? So he has surpassed MJ?

Sorry, this Indian ass knows **** about Basketball too.... Have a friend who played nationals and he is a big fan of MJ. He's basically my primary source of knowledge and the reason I watched the few NBA games I did.
 
capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

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nightprowler10 said:
Nah, but he should be in the list for greatest athletes. I would also include Bill Russell (the guy in my avvie) and especially Wilt Chamberlain, but not sure how many people even know those names.
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I know Chamberlain (Like heard of him) but not Russell. I mean, like including 4 Basketball players in like 15 Greatest athletes.... Don't you think it's flattering a single sport too much? Like for that sole reason I haven't even picked Pelè, Maradona and Di Stefano.
 
nightprowler10

nightprowler10

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Fair. I'm really just throwing names out for consideration. I'd say Wilt and Lebron make sense because they were/are incredibly gifted physically to the point they could be considered great sportsmen as well as athletes. Kareem is another that I didn't mention for consideration.

Outside of basketball, I'd consider Jahangir Khan.
 
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Ali TT

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If we're having a tennis player, it's BJK, Martina or Serena, not Fed, who wasn't even the best of his generation.
 
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