So Bolt is Retiring

[shivfan]

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Gay wasn't around because he tested positive for a banned substance.

You are missing the point of my question.

More woulda, coulda, shoulda....you're missing the point that any discussion about Gay is pointless simply because he failed a drug test.
:roll:
Basically, what you're saying is, what if Gay wasn't caught getting an unfair advantage, what would've happened? A totally pointless discussion...he failed a drug test, and it's time to move on, and look at other potential challengers to Bolt.

'Bolt said Thursday: "I am definitely reconsidering. I think my fans especially have really voiced their concern about me retiring." Pointing to commercial motives, Bolt says the fans "think I should carry on and so do my sponsors. I have discussed it with my coach and he says it is possible." The Jamaican says he is looking to extend his career by a year after the 2016 Olympics, meaning he could leave the sport after the 2017 world championships in London.'

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/Bo ... ement-plan

That means I may have a chance of seeing him at the World Champs in London...hurray!

[KDFINE]

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Any golden age of boxing may be long gone, but for Elluke to write that Sugar Ray can't be considered as one of the best of all time because he wasn't a heavyweight is ludicrous!

[eiluke]

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Michael Jordan: best basketballer (maybe even after LeBron retireing)
Pele: best soccer player (maybe ever, but at least in his era)
Tiger Woods: best golfer (maybe ever)
...

On the other hand, would anybody say that Steffen Beck (22.10.70) has been the best shot putter ever?
I doubt - though with 18,90m (19.07.98 Winnenden) at just 84 kg, he is the best shot putter ever in relation to his weight!

My point is, that Sugar Ray hasn't been the best boxer in the world at any time, he always would have would have lost a fight against the reigning heavy weight world champion.

Best ever is always a question of competitors. Or would anybody declare Steffi Graf as the best tennis professional ever, because she had won the golden Grand Slam in 1988?

[Vielleicht]

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My point is, that Sugar Ray hasn't been the best boxer in the world at any time, he always would have would have lost a fight against the reigning heavy weight world champion.

Best ever is always a question of competitors. Or would anybody declare Steffi Graf as the best tennis professional ever, because she had won the golden Grand Slam in 1988?

Based on your logic, no, because she always would have lost a match against many male tennis player.

[leoesharkey]

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You can't compare a national sport like Basketball or Baseball or NFL to a global sport like Soccer or Track and Field. Bolt is a global superstar, Michael Jordan is unknown and unappreciated outside the US. Muhammed Ali was probably the most famous man on earth in his prime. You have to take those that play local sports out of the equation, Donald Bradman in unknown outside five or six nations, Pele is and was a global superstar ala Ali and Bold.

[ZELLGADISS]

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Baseball is few known out USA(perhaps Cuba and few more), but basketball NBA?sorry but no.
Michael Jordan is very known in the world :wink:

[berkeley]

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there are probably more cricket fans in the world today than tennis fans?

I suspect y'awl theoreticals are counting total populations of all these over-populated poor countries, whose denizens can hardly sit around for hours watching boring Cricket matches. Nor can they actually play w/ anything more than slabs of wood--which is not to degrade the hard-working, long suffering poor (I was in the first Peace Corps group, in Colombia), only to point out how misleading supposed popularity can be: I'd bet plenty that the % of Pop. who attend Soccer/Futbol matches is much higher than the likes of Cricket--which I doubt many all those so-called Fans actually understand, much less identify with.

You are quite wrong about that. I'm not a cricket fan at all, but from my experience visiting India, almost everyone there is a huge fan and understands the game. The many whose economic circumstances preclude access to TV still watch local games, and all the kids play on dirt patches with rocks and sticks. Their relationship with the game is very much like that with soccer in most other poor regions of the world. It's one of the few accessible distractions from the struggle to survive.