Greatest runner of all time ?

[Lungzyn]

The greatest runner of all time is Ben Richards.

I guess its easier to run fast when people are trying to kill you :dunno:

 

[Rod Hugo]

It's like the other fastest people on earth dont belong on the same track as him.

Tyson Gay runs a 9.71!!! and got smoked. I dont know who was 2nd in the 200m because they were not even on the screen.

If he's juicing, so is everyone else. The rest of the world sucks at juicing.

 

[TheKeyWestWanderer]

If your talking sprinting?

It has to be the Cheetah

 

[sproing99]

Lasse Virren (sp ?)

 

[marquis2]

Records are broken for a variety of reasons.Times are better now because of better equipment, track surfaces and training.Put Ursain Bolt in to 1936 shoes on a 1936 diet and get him to run on a 1936 surface and look at the times he attains.That's why it's difficult to pick an all time best.

 

[Eric Lindros]

As long as we are talking about short distance running and not counting longer distance runners I say it's Bolt.

I go by three criteria.

1. Total speed and quickness
2. How much greater they were compared to contemporary competition. Also taking into account that hundredths of second let alone tenths of a second better mean more now than they did even back a few decades ago.
3. Longevity at being near the best and especially the best.
4. They are good at more than one race and can do at least two of the 100, 200, and 400 meter races.

Bolt already beats everybody else like Lewis, Johnson, and Owns, in the first two criteria, and in a few years baring injury, quitting, or some other strange breakdown will have enough to almost equal everybody else in the third. He also has world records in the 100 and 200 meters. He's tenths of a second, TENTHS, better than anybody else on the planet. To put that into perspective he's probably better than whoever comes up second in a race than the second place person is better than the 10,000th best sprinter in the world. If he ever improves on his start out of the gate he might even get significantly better still, so even now it’s not like he already tapped out as far as ability.

True words.:thumbsup:

 

[clogselfe]

Bolt

 

[JB88]

I'd vote Haile Gebreselassie or Paul Tergat. Respect to Usain Bolt as well, but there's a big difference between 100 meters and 26.2 miles.

 

[jasonk282]

Mexican Diharrea, fastest thing on earth

 

[GregCentauro]

Forrest Gump

 

[JordanRules]

Carl Lewis

 

[nightwanker]

The Flash
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=336605

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

"Bullet" Bob Hayes or Jim Thorpe.

 

[marquis2]

Point is-how good would Owens be with modern equipment on modern tracks with a modern diet and modern training? The track surfaces and shoes alone make a significant difference.

 

[Jagger69]

Secretariat

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Abebe Bikila. Mortarforker won gold in the marathon at the 1960 Olympics farkin' BAREFOOT! Secretariat is a nice choice, too. But if you open up that bag of worms, you'd better mention Seabiscuit.

 

[lurkingdirk]

I gotta go with Edwin Moses. The length of time he dominated will not be beat.

indeed. moses revolutionized the sport with technique adaptations and amazing talent.

plus, he parted the red sea and all.

 

[sexdog121]

Usain Bolt

 

[Baill Inneraora]

75 Years Ago Today

At the Western Conference Championships in the crack whore town called Ann Arbor*(Back then the Big 10 was called the Western Conference)

Jess Owens, form The Ohio State University, broke four World Records in a span of 45 minutes.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/more/05/24/owens.record.day/index.html?eref=sihp#ixzz0owkVpRu3

* I added the crack whore town part.

 

[luis1972]

Usain Bolt