who is better...
Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan) won five Olympic golds back in the twenties; he never lost a race. Never lost a race.
Stay with me....
Today, female swimmers have demolished all of his best times. It's been that way for a long while.
This is fun, you know, could Mohammad Ali beat Batman in a street fight, but whatever the sport, you can't compare one moment in time to another.
Are today's athletes better conditioned, of course. I don't particularly like the way baseball is played today, but the one constant remains: score one more run than the other guys and if you gotta change your approach, so be it.
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