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BobbyK
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I am not quite sure.
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Other people might have a different view but the winner of the Olympic (or World Championships) Decathlon has always been considered the best athlete in the world. Each athlete must sprint for 100 meters, long jump, heave a 16-pound shotput, high jump and run 400 meters -- all in that very order -- on the first day. On the second day the athlete runs a 110 meter hurdle race over 42 inch barriers, hurls the discus, pole vaults, tosses a javelin and, at the end of the contest, races over 1500 meters, virtually a mile. http://www.decathlonusa.org/nature.html http://www.decathlonusa.org/history.html http://www2.jsonline.com/sports/oly/dan801.html Jim Thorpe, the football star and Olympic legend whom Sweden's King Gustav V called "the greatest athlete in the world" after he won the 1912 Olympic Decathlon, was named, in 1950, by the Associated Press the greatest football player and greatest all-round athlete for the first 50 years of this century. http://www.alphacdc.com/necona/jimthorp.html http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1992/4/1992_4_93.shtml
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I agree with Henry H. The best athlete in the world would be the last Olympic Decathlon gold medalist, or the last person to win the event at the World Championships. Other possibilities that are often considered are dominant performers in their field, such as Roger Federer [tennis] (until recently) and Tiger Woods [golf].
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Stereotypically - track and field, I'd think.
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Pentathalon competitors.
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I heard those geezers who play aussie rules football are in amazing shape, although I am not sure.
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I have always admired the Biatholon athletes. Cross country skiing is so difficult and really takes all sorts of strengths and abilities and then to e able to calm down your heart and mind and shoot perfectly, it's amazing to me. But then again, when you see the strengths, balance, endurance, flexibilities of the elite studying at the Shaolin Temple, the Buddhist martial artists, well, they can run up cliff walls, and stand on two fingers and bend anyway possible and do it for days on end.
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Whomever downrated my answer, will you please tell me why? Show a little courage and at least tell me what was wrong with my answer, please.
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Any athlete that can acomplish something an average fit man can't.Long distance runners(50km), Long distance swimmers(25km), Both, Climbing mount everest etc.
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Decathletes have to be the best all round athletes in the world.
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