I'm not comparing her to men's players rather than comparing the competition of who they have played. Roger has had the most prolific men's tennis career ever playing during his best years against the likes of Nadal and Djokovic. That's like if Tiger, Nicklaus, and Palmer all played at the same time. And for the record I believe Serena in her prime could compete against and beat a lot of the men's players.
Yeah this is part of what makes it so hard to choose a top athlete. Depending on your sports and skills the demands are different, the training is different, the length of career is different, and the potential to even be seen as dominant (in team sports versus single competition) is totally different. Biles and Williams are definitely top athletes but it's foolish to me to try and decide the absolute top.
He's not even close to the best rock climber in the world. Just has the biggest balls.
Afaik men and women do different gymnastic events.
They openly said that they could beat any man outside of the top 200. The dude played golf in the morning and was smoking cigarettes and drinking beer between sets. I think that things balanced themselves out that day.
I went to them one time (2012), clearly Biles is big, I'll Google it
The biggest difference for me is how large is the margin for the error for each athlete? For Serena, if she has a bad set then she has an opportunity to recover and has done so repeatedly in her career. If Simone has a bad routine, well there goes her gold medal. She almost always has to be perfect on the biggest stages and so far has done so nearly every single time, and for a longer period of time than other historically dominant gymnasts.
Ah, maybe you just steer well clear of the gymnastics of then.
I was going to say Messi as well. He's one of my favorite athletes
Still doesn't make him the best climber in the world. He's simply daring and most climbers, while completely able to do what he did, don't feel the need to risk death. He's not even in the same conversation as the best climbers who are able to climb things he wouldn't even attempt.
That's because she didn't play on every tournament because she really didn't need to
It's not even an arm of the sport. No one does it because fear of death. It's like claiming the guy who jumped out of a plane with no parachute, landing into a net, is the best and most dominant athlete in the world. What he did is insane, just like what Alex did. But it's not elite level of anything. El Capitan has been climbed by hundreds of people (if not more). Any of the world's best could easily do it faster.. they just use safety equipment and safety equipment is not a measurement of elite athleticism and dominance.
2 decades of making you cry
and Michael Schumacher
