Amazing Top Athletes Today?
 

Here is a start list ( not in any order ) , feel free to add to it.... Top Athletes with special skills and playing still now?

1) Tiger Woods
2) Kobe Bryant
3) Lance Armstrong
4) Oscar De La Hoya
5) David Beckham

Rafael Nadal should be creeping into that list in the coming years. The guy is singlehandedly stopping all conversations about Federer being the best tennis player ever - because in all likelyhood he may take that title when all's said and done. The dude's a monster!

Michael Phelps kills plus he hits the bong on the weekends.

Super human.

Not sure if I would put Tiger Woods at the top. He's great at golf and golf is hard, but I consider it like playing pool or something.

Also, at golf everyone gets really quite before you swing. Other sports, the guys have to deal with the insane roar of the crowd when the game is on the line. Imagine if a baseball player asked the crowd to be quite before he took a 3-2 pitch in the bottom of the ninth in the World Series.

+1
Rafa is monster ..

I remeber 10 - 15 years ago that list would be much more impressive.

Beckham
Rooney
Van Der Sar
Owen
Cristiano Ronaldo
Kaka

Not in that order...

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Beckham?

Owen?

Van Der Sar?

Rooney?

I can't stop laughing. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Calzaghe > De La Hoya

Fernando Alonso is missing from that list too.

I don't think I would put De La Hoya in that group today.

Larry Fitzgerald
Adrian Peterson
Leonel Messi
Lebron James
Kobe Bryant
Tiger Woods
Christiano Ronaldo
Lance Armstrong (Presuming he comes out of retirement)
Manny Pacquiao
Shawn White (competition snowboarding and skate)
Travis White (backcountry snowboarding)
Terje Haakonsen (Amazing snowboarder)
Kelly Slater (9x surfing champ and going for 10)
Tony Hawk
Danny Way (BALLS bigger then all of us)
Travis Pastrana (Double Back Flip on a MotoX, basejumper, rally car, and all around nut)
Roger Federer
Laird Hamilton

some good ones here that would be on my list too. micheal phelps, lebron james, kaka, nadal

to which i add... Serena Williams and Mia Hamm. Although not recent, she was an amazing US soccer player who broke the all time international scoring record for both men and women in 1999. she was FIFA player of the year in 2001 and 2002.

Good list Poppy. I'll add:

Travis Rice (watch That's it That's all)
Hugo Harrison (skier)
Shane McConkey
Seth Morrison
GSP
Anderson Silva
Fedor

Double post.

not a single hockey player on these lists??

You fat asses should get out of the house and play some sports instead of sitting around making lists. Just sayin'.

Kim Kardashian...cause that ass is kickin! :)

looking at her ass I'd say she plays very little sports.

Its not the size of her ass that makes me doubt she plays sports...its the fact that she is a spoiled little bitch. That does not change the fact that her ass is fantastic though.

Anyone with names of those long distance runners from Kenya and Ethiopia who run like those wolves I see on National Geographic Channel chasing their preys till they drop dead out of exhaustion and eat them alive?

LeBron James and Dwight Howard.

Tony Hawk
LeBron James
Kevin Garnett
Ichiro Suzuki

I can't beleive George St-Pierre haven't been named in yet.

Your kidding right? wow...i dont agree with you....he is born with golf skills, cant practice enough to be like him....

I think Oscar got laid on his a bit much his last few fights to be on this list. :2 cents:

you are pretty stupid.

No Alexander Ovechkin? unreal

They are 2 for the list for sure !!

Fedor Emelianenko, end of list

By far the best list :thumbsup

GSP / Brock Lesnar / Anderson Silva .
MMA Fighters are all around the best athletes in the world.

yes, i gotta agree with you on this.....

I agree.Rafa is a great athlete.I was just wondering why isn't he in that list