Paris 2024 Olympics Thread - 11th August (pg 430)

mexico1970 said:
People used to refer to darts players as athletes back in the day, athletes or the definition of athletes has shifted over the years and if he's just in the conversation because he played in the Olympics I am not having it.

He was top of the tennis tree for 41 weeks overall (Pretty impressive) but not exactly mind blowing.
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Yeah but consider his competition, those 3 might go down as best 1 2 & 3 to ever play the game , he’s given them all plenty of tough games over the years, they all talk highly of him as well

I’m not evening thinking about anything he’s done in the olympics as I agree winning tennis gold doesn’t mean you’re the best at your sport
 
bluemc1 said:
Not sure you know
He’s got to be the greatest British tennis player 3 majors and 20 years at the top so you’d have to rank him against the best of British in remaining sports

For me despite how brilliant they are at what they do I couldn’t personally name a Golfer, F1 Driver, Darts player, snooker player and a few more as the greatest athlete

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I’ve just realised that wouldn’t work as you could think 4/5 athletes from the same sport are still better than him


Still think he’s in with a shout of making the top 10 though
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He is incredible, and he’s done it from a normal family in a sport that’s completely upper middle class at the highest level. Not arguing that he’s the best but top 10 easily. To be world number 1 for nearly a year when he was against Djokovic Federer and Nadal was amazing
 
jazzy said:
There are ZERO people assigned thier sex at birth , all eggs have X chromosomes the sperm has either an X or Y chromosome so for the vast majority are either XX or XY . Some have extra Y or X very few just have X & no Y (XO)
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Assigned sex is literally just what gets put on your birth certificate. Nothing to do with genetics.
 
bluemc1 said:
Yeah but consider his competition, those 3 might go down as best 1 2 & 3 to ever play the game , he’s given them all plenty of tough games over the years, they all talk highly of him as well
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Where do you think he is in the overall tennis World.
He was unfortunate not to have won more due to being around at the same time as Nadal, Federer and Djokovic but you could make that same argument for those 3 as well.
There are only 4 players to have won all 4 slam events but I think he is behind Borg, McEnroe Sampras and a few others.
 
bluemc1 said:
Yeah but consider his competition, those 3 might go down as best 1 2 & 3 to ever play the game , he’s given them all plenty of tough games over the years, they all talk highly of him as well

I’m not evening thinking about anything he’s done in the olympics as I agree winning tennis gold doesn’t mean you’re the best at your sport
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I struggle with the elevating of sportsman because he/she is the flavour of the day mate.

The media always have a new beau lined up, for example Mbappe will go down as the best football player ever when he's not even in the top 20 in reality, smoking mirrors.
 
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