Power that lasts.......

[KarmaDope]

Going back many, many years here, but W.G. Grace should be in this list.

Using anyone for cricket but Bradman is a reach IMO, slightly different criteria but Bradman is arguably statistically the most dominant sportsman to ever exist.

Can argue a case for Bradman but it wasn't just about stats, it was longevity and Grace played first-class cricket for 45ish years!

[EvilPie]

If it's Brits you want then Dorian Yates dominated body building winning Mr Olympia from 1991 to 1997.

Others have won it more times such as Ronnie Coleman who won it 8 years in succession after Dorian.

You could argue that Dorian was the more impressive as he was never beaten once he made it to the top. It was retirement that lead him to relinquish his throne.

[MANTIS01]

When I was manager at Segaworld Dorian Yates used to come in on a regular basis to play Mortal Kombat. He used to wear these baggy clown pants and waddle like a duck due to the immense friction between his thighs (thought he looked a bit ridic tbh...but kept those thoughts to myself).

Think Giggs is a good recent one

[MintTrav]

Babe Didrikson Zaharias - the greatest female athlete ever.

Athletics
Won six events at the AAU Championships and won the team event even though she was the only person on her team.

Four World Records the same day - 80m Hurdles, High Jump, Javelin & Baseball Throw.

Olympics:  Javelin - Gold. 80m Hurdles - Gold. High Jump - Silver.

Basketball
All-American Basketball player, winning the AAU Championship.

Golf
Pro Golfer, winning 10 Majors and over 80 tournaments in total. Grand Slam of all 3 Women's Majors in 1950.

First woman to play PGA. It was sixty years before some other women qualified for PGA events, but she is still the only one ever to make the cut, which she did numerous times. Apart from her first year as a Pro, she made the cut in every PGA she played.

Previously, she won 17 straight amateur golf tournaments (including the US and British titles), which no-one has ever achieved since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Didrikson_Zaharias

[GreekStein]

If it's Brits you want then Dorian Yates dominated body building winning Mr Olympia from 1991 to 1997.

Others have won it more times such as Ronnie Coleman who won it 8 years in succession after Dorian.

You could argue that Dorian was the more impressive as he was never beaten once he made it to the top. It was retirement that lead him to relinquish his throne.

known for having the best back in bodybuilding..

[tikay]

Babe Didrikson Zaharias - the greatest female athlete ever.

Athletics
Won six events at the AAU Championships and won the team event even though she was the only person on her team.

Four World Records the same day - 80m Hurdles, High Jump, Javelin & Baseball Throw.

Olympics:  Javelin - Gold. 80m Hurdles - Gold. High Jump - Silver.

Basketball
All-American Basketball player, winning the AAU Championship.

Golf
Pro Golfer, winning 10 Majors and over 80 tournaments in total. Grand Slam of all 3 Women's Majors in 1950.

First woman to play PGA. It was sixty years before some other women qualified for PGA events, but she is still the only one ever to make the cut, which she did numerous times. Apart from her first year as a Pro, she made the cut in every PGA she played.

Previously, she won 17 straight amateur golf tournaments (including the US and British titles), which no-one has ever achieved since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Didrikson_Zaharias

Incred.

Think she has to be in the list.

[kinboshi]

Babe Didrikson Zaharias - the greatest female athlete ever.

Athletics
Won six events at the AAU Championships and won the team event even though she was the only person on her team.

Four World Records the same day - 80m Hurdles, High Jump, Javelin & Baseball Throw.

Olympics:  Javelin - Gold. 80m Hurdles - Gold. High Jump - Silver.

Basketball
All-American Basketball player, winning the AAU Championship.

Golf
Pro Golfer, winning 10 Majors and over 80 tournaments in total. Grand Slam of all 3 Women's Majors in 1950.

First woman to play PGA. It was sixty years before some other women qualified for PGA events, but she is still the only one ever to make the cut, which she did numerous times. Apart from her first year as a Pro, she made the cut in every PGA she played.

Previously, she won 17 straight amateur golf tournaments (including the US and British titles), which no-one has ever achieved since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Didrikson_Zaharias

Incred.

Think she has to be in the list.

I bet she couldn't put a Rowntree's Fruit Pastille in her mouth without chewing it

[tikay]

If it's Brits you want then Dorian Yates dominated body building winning Mr Olympia from 1991 to 1997.

Others have won it more times such as Ronnie Coleman who won it 8 years in succession after Dorian.

You could argue that Dorian was the more impressive as he was never beaten once he made it to the top. It was retirement that lead him to relinquish his throne.

Mr Olympia? What?

I had to go googling. It does exist, look.....



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Olympia

So it must be true.

....and from that, I found Ronnie Coleman.....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Coleman

....and so must he be real.


But then I found this photo of him. Deffo can't be real, can it? Two Weetabix, or three?

[Marky147]

Haha, that's a fake pic for sure... He is most definitely real though

[david3103]

Bodybuilder pictures inevitably raise the question " WHY?"

[kinboshi]

Bodybuilder pictures inevitably raise the question " WHY?"

With some of them, the answer to 'how' is a lot of training and a lot of steroids I'd guess!  Not sure on the 'why' though

[tikay]

Haha, that's a fake pic for sure... He is most definitely real though

Definitely a fake? Bugger!

You sure, there are dozens of similar photos of him.

I sort of wanted it to be real.

[david3103]

Haha, that's a fake pic for sure... He is most definitely real though

Definitely a fake? Bugger!

You sure, there are dozens of similar photos of him.

I sort of wanted it to be real.

Again, "WHY?"

[tikay]

Haha, that's a fake pic for sure... He is most definitely real though

Definitely a fake? Bugger!

You sure, there are dozens of similar photos of him.

I sort of wanted it to be real.

Again, "WHY?"

To make the point!

It is no different to poker, where so many take the game too seriously. (As I see it, anyway). Outsiders LAUGH at poker players (95% of whom lose money), and we laugh at those (to us) grotesquesly muscled bodies.

Each to their own.....

Anyway, lets not derail the thread too much (my bad), but happy to discuss it on a new thread, or my Diary.

[Tal]

Phil Taylor used to do a bit of bodybuilding.

(In before the inevitable)

Funny how these threads end up back where they started.