agree, though it's rather fun to thrash out what "most dominant" should mean.
It means Wilt.
agree, though it's rather fun to thrash out what "most dominant" should mean.
Would you put Wilt Chamberlain above Michael Jordan? If we are using 'most well-known everywhere' as the criterion.
Michael Jordan
Usain Bolt
Wayne Gretzky
Jack Nicklaus
Reggie White
Martina Navratilova
Muhammad Ali.
20,000 women? In how many years? Say 40 years, that's 500 a year... that's nearly two a day! Nah!
That suggests Navratilova or Graf before Serena Williams. So there's lots of ammo for every side; it's far from being "because I say so."
I'm not sure we can do it with racehorses, can we? There's 3 horses I can name off the top of my head that every British person would know the name of. But they never raced abroad. So 'most dominant' is going to be totally restricted to what country we are in. Which kind of defeats the point.
Always and forever: Red Rum.
For those who might not know both secretariat and Phar Lap were mutations, A gene that has been traced back to Eclipse was responsible for occasionally horses having hearts twice or larger the size of normal. Though I am biased ( my grandfatherr was the barber at parliment house and was fired for refusing to take a picture of Phar Lap down ) I think undoubtedly one of the greatest sporting achievements of all time was secrtetariats win in the Belmont stakes, I beliene he broke the then world records for 10- furlongs- 11-furlongs -12 -furlongs and the track record for 13 furlongs ( a furlong past the wining post when he had been pulled up ) in that single run.
Wot, no rugby?
You guys seem to be concentrating an awful lot on American sports.
Rugby - there's a case for Gareth Edwards, but I think an even better one for the late All Black, Jonah Lomu.