Best sportsman to ever walk the Earth?

[The Lounge Lizard]

the reason why Slater isn't even top 50 is because very few people surf or care about surfing and those that do are usually drug addict slackers. Being the best surfer in the world is little more than impressive.

Are you the goose that thinks that NASCAR is a sport? Driving around in circles is such riveting stuff.

Surfing is about man versus nature. NASCAR is about Seppos having a circle jerk to whorespower.

 

[Munky]

I'd say Usain Bolt or Eliud Kipchoge.

Close to every person on the planet who can has run one hundred metres or participated in a school distance run.

Bolt is the quickest of all time and Kipchoge can run 42km in less than two hours.

No participation barrier to their sports and they are the best to ever do it.

 

[Parra]

I'll double down on this one and add "it's not even close"

I retract this - Alex Honnold. It's close.

 

[blue bags]

Ali

 

[blue bags]

Ali

Lance Armstrong would come close

 

[Mojo]

Eric the eel - swimming
John Howard - cricket
Boris Johnson - Japanese street rugby

 

[Cheese sandwich]

Mick Lewis, Bryce McGain, Cooper Johns

 

[blue bags]

Eric the eel - swimming
John Howard - cricket
Boris Johnson - Japanese street rugby

Harry Holt for swimming
Swam from Sydney beach to a Russian submarine off the coast
Undetected WOW
What a legend

 

[Twizzle]

Portsea, not Sydney

In December 1967, Holt disappeared while swimming in rough conditions at Cheviot Beach, Victoria. He was presumed dead, although his body was never recovered; his disappearance spawned a number of conspiracy theories. Holt was the third Australian prime minister to die in office. He was succeeded by Country Party leader John McEwen on an interim basis and then by John Gorton. His death was commemorated in a number of ways, among them by the establishment of the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in Melbourne.

Harold Holt - Wikipedia

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