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Yes I read about this! I think it was around the time that they wanted him to go more in the direction of 200/400m than 100/200m. To be honest he looks more like a 400m runner and with a bad sprint technique you could understand why his coach wanted him to head in the direction of the longer...

This is a valid point and of course in a lot of sports the testing regime is much more relaxed than it is in cycling or athletics. Its expensive to implement a drugs testing regime and many sports focus on in-competition testing whereas most drug taking is actually done during periods of...

When you look in to this a bit more I don't think this really gives the whole story. Bolt spent most of is early career focusing on 200m and not the 100m. He was an exceptional 200m runner for his age, as a 16 year old he was running the same times as Micheal Johnson was at 20 years old! As a...

There are very few of those though, that reached the top in multiple sports. Although you get the feeling that certain sportsmen would be good at anything, Usain Bolt was a decent Cricketer and could play football to a decent standard apparently. Using the same train of thought, in Cricket...

Sorry I meant to type 'in' England'! The only tests he played outside of Australia where in England. I am not saying that he wasn't a great sportsman, and streaks ahead of those of his time, but thats very different to saying he's the best sportsman of all time. You cant compare someone of that...

I didn't know the professional game started so early! The point remains valid though that he only played England so the international game wasn't well developed at the time. Very different to the game of cricket nowadays and other global sports in the modern era.

I don't think you can include anything that happened more than 50 years ago in the discussion as the world and sport was such a different place. Bradman played all of his cricket in only 2 countries, England and Australia. All of his international cricket was against England, he never faced spin...

The best footballers, Maradona, Pele, Messi have to be up there because there has to be some weight added to the popularity of the sport worldwide. Some of the names mentioned on here like Redgrave and Bubka were dominant in sports that in comparison to football one man and a dog participate in...