Who's the 3 greatest sports athletes?

Who's the 3 greatest sports athletes?


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Jim Brown
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Muhammad Ali
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Lionel Messi
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Deion Sanders
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Michael Jordon
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Wayne Gretzky

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Michael Phelps
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Carl Lewis
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Jim Thorpe
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Jesse Owens
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Roger Federer
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Usain Bolt
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Willie Mays
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Lebron James
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Sugar Ray Robinson

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Bo Jackson
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Tiger Woods
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Jon Jones
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Pelé
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For me its Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan and Lebron James.
 
Great individual athletes should ALWAYS rank above great team athletes. Michael Jordan was a bum until he got a better team and coach.

Lionel Messi can't win a World Cup. He wins a lot in Barca because the team can afford to buy the best talent in the world.

NFL players don't have the endurance of football players and combat athletes. NFL players spend the majority of the game sitting on the bench, and they usually don't play both defense and offense.
 
Also, all athletes who were "great" because only people from a certain race were allowed to compete, should NEVER be included.
 
Messi is the better football player but not the better athlete in his discipline. For instance CR7 is a better athlete than him. Same in boxing. I'd say that Roy Jones jr is a better athlete than Ali or Robinson even though these last are very athletic and philysically gifted.
 
Lionel Messi is better at his sport than any of the other guys were at their sport.

The pool of talent of soccer is probably as big if not bigger than the pool of talent for all these other sports combined as well.
 
Messi is the Rickson of Football
Christiano is the GSP of Football
Brady is the Kimura of CTE Football
Federer is the Rickson of Tennis
Nadal is the GSP of Tennis
Mays is the Kimura of play catch
Phelps is the Rickson of swimming
MJ is the GSP of pick-up
 
Deion used to play a baseball game at night then get on a plane and play a football game the next day that’s some GOAT athlete shit

Coulda been the goat at MW/LHW point fighter with that speed running in the cage
 
When I was a kid, my dad was an enthusiastic Jim Brown fan. I'm not sure how many even remember him nowadays.

The list is not bad, but some on it will not be recognized by many Americans, while some others won't be be appreciated by those under a certain age.
 
Wayne Gretzky. The gap between him and the 2nd best player was the biggest of anyone on this list - and by a lot.
 
All-time top 25 decathletes
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Kevin Mayer (FRA) September 15–16, 2018 Talence [24]
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Ashton Eaton (USA) August 28–29, 2015 Beijing
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Roman Šebrle (CZE) May 26–27, 2001 Götzis
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Tomáš Dvořák (CZE) July 3–4, 1999 Prague
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Dan O'Brien (USA) September 4–5, 1992 Talence
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Daley Thompson (GBR) August 8–9, 1984 Los Angeles
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Jürgen Hingsen (FRG) June 8–9, 1984 Mannheim
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Bryan Clay (USA) June 29–30, 2008 Eugene
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Erki Nool (EST) August 6–7, 2001 Edmonton
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Damian Warner (CAN) May 26–27, 2018 Götzis
 
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