I have long maintained that the single greatest athletic feat I've ever seen was Michael Johnson destroying the world record in the 200m at the 1996 Olympics. Usain "Lightning" Bolt did quite a number on the 100m a few days ago, but he says his best event is the 200. This morning, I stumbled across this chart. Rather than link to it and help kill his bandwitch, I've pasted it in here. This chart shows the twenty fastest 200m marks of all time. Each row represents a hundredth of a second. Eyeballing the chart would suggest that the cutting edge of human achievement in ...
ESPN posted a feature last night that ranks the top 10 athletic feats. You can read the whole list for yourself, but #1 was Bob Beamon shattering the world record in the long jump at the '68 Olympics. I won't disagree with that, but a few of the others that made the list are "iffy". Mike Vick breaking a long run to win a game in overtime? Sure, it was a great play, probably the best that year. But in the top 10 of all-time? No way. The biggest oversight I saw was Michael Johnson. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, not only did he become the first person to win both the 200m and 400m, he completely destroyed the ...