When he's healthy, it is Shaq no question in my opinion.
While other athletes have their moments, when Shaq is healthy he can dominate a game like no one else in the NBA.
Currently, no one in football can be named the most dominant player in all of sports, many players make an impact, but even those that make incredible individual plays like Julius Peppers do not do it on a consistant enough basis.
Federer has done very well in tennis, but it can also be argued that it was against sub-par competition, as the talent in male tennis has been dropping over the past few years.
Woods has fallen off his pace for a while and has not been able to hold of Lefty or Vijay, so he's out.
Schumacher would not be where he is without team Ferrari, if he was on another team he would not be nearly as dominant, and probably would not have all of his championships.
Which leads back to Shaq, no matter what his team, as long as he is healthy enough to play, he will drag his team to the top of the list of NBA Championship contenders and will give them an extremely good chance of winning it all. No other big man in the sport for quite a while has been able to do that for his team.
As for Lance Armstrong, it's winning the exact same event for 7 years that seems to be tailor made for him. He just stays near the top in order to take the lead in the mountains where he has a biological advantage (as discussed in a Discovery Channel special) and overall just does the same thing. So what? The Tour de France is not the only cycling event in the world, yet it's the only one we ever hear Lance winning. Yet since the Tour de France gives advantages to Lance he's able win 7 in a row and be crowned an international hero. It seems more equivilent to old school Nebraska football playing the best Division III school out there. The DIII school will have a chance in the beginning, but eventually Nebraska would just beat them into submission, running the ball up the gut and allowing the DIII team to do nothing on offense.
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