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Old 07-26-2005, 01:38 PM
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Default Greatest athlete of all-time

Posted By: Glenn

I'm not really qualified to comment on the greatest athletes of all-time, but I think Lygdamus, the pankration champion at the original Olympic games would have to be up there. In the past 100 years I'd say Thorpe was the best male athlete and Didrickson the best female athlete. After that it's tough, but in my lifetime I'd go with Bo Jackson, Lance Armstrong, Jackie Joyner-Kersey; maybe Dan O'Brien, Michael Vick, Magnus ver Magnusson, whoever holds the record in the Badlands ultra-marathon, and possibly this young man from the village of Petite Soufriere on the island of Dominica (that's me at the top of the photo):

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