cobl04
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Me too. It would be the best Olympics ever.
Antwerp was a toilet.
Antwerp was a toilet.
Coates says Brisbane will be the next one because they have the best climate when the IOC wants to host in the future, in July.
Usain Bolt is OUT OF HIS MIND ... at least according to Bruce Jenner ... who doesn't think the Jamaican sprinter was living in reality when he called himself the greatest athlete of all time.
Jenner -- who took home the gold in the decathlon in the 1976 Olympics -- was leaving LAX this weekend when we asked him about the declaration of greatness Bolt made about himself after dominating at the Olympics last week
"He's the best sprinter," Jenner said ... adding, "He can't pole vault, he can't throw anything ... that's an athlete."
Jenner made it clear ... he believes decathletes rank the highest when deciding "most athletic" ... and when asked if Bolt would be able to compete in his sport, Bruce didn't hold back ..."He would be terrible."
Bruce Jenner -- Usain Bolt is DELUSIONAL | TMZ.com
elevated_u2_fan said:Dude... Like 3 posts up
I rate "athletes" based on their training regimens. Since elite gymnasts train 8 hours a day, 6 days a week year round since they have no "season" (and generally train this much by age 11) I rate them at/near the top. It's interesting that a child actor can't film movies on that schedule because it is considered "work".
I find gymnasts the most impressive. I am more impressed by, say, Kayla's vault than I am by how fast Bolt runs. I understand the elemental, primordial appeal of "fastest man alive" ... But watching someone push the boundaries of what is known and unknown, to find new ways and new limits of the ways in which the human body can perform in increasingly complex ways, that's thrilling to me.
I could run 100m right now, rather slowly.
I couldn't even begin to do a back handspring.
heh.
i wonder who would win in the plastic surgery olympics?
Even though I love to watch gymnastics because I'm always amazed by what the body can do, I often wonder if training 6 days a week is even worth it. Why can't they just do 5 days? Also, you hear so many stories about the young gymnasts being overtrained and mistreated by their coaches. I'm sure you've heard about what Dominique Moceanu wrote in her book. While its true that not all gymnasts suffer abuse (Dominique Dawes and her coach Kelly Hill had the ideal athlete-coach relationship in my mind), I just wonder if that much dedication is worth all the sacrifices and heartache.
But that's exactly the logic that has me more impressed with Bolt. He does what every single person on the planet (save those with serious physical disabilities) can do and he does it better than every single one of them.
Gymnasts do things that most of us have never tried and we have no way of knowing how we would be. If somebody had taught you to do a back handspring at 7, you'd probably be able to do it eventually, with varying degrees of success.
It is true that elite level gymnastics is not something that is attainable for everyone to try whereas any able-bodied person on the planet can at least try a 100m sprint. There are many skills that are not genetically possible for certain people regardless of the commitment or level of training. For example flexibility is genetic and cannot be forced. There were several skills I could not do because I have no hip flexor flexibility. I was put in stretching "machines" and had all sorts of torturous ways of working on flexibility and after doing it daily for years I gained maybe 10 degrees in my splits and no hip flexor flexibility at which point I decided to just work around the lack of flexibility. Since I was a bars specialist this wasn't an issue. Others are just born with it and don't lose it even if they never stretch.
I think it's kinda homophobic that you put the two old lesbians last