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Originally Posted by BigGov
Basketball, Hockey, Football, Baseball, all are sports which involve players playing against other players, the same goes Soccer (Futbol), Rugby, Cricket. To a point, even darts and billiards. Cycling is a person against the clock. The emphasis on why Armstrong is not as dominant is because he races against the clock in the same event every year on virtually the same course with relatively no change in anything.
Shaq has to compete head to head with other atheletes, and throughout his career he has proven his dominance in taking every team he has been on to the NBA Finals. This includes playing against countless NBA greats, Hakeem, Ewing, Mutumbo (back in the original finger waving days), and new guys like Yao. He has to play directly against these people, not get from point A to point B faster than them every year. Gretzkey would be a very fine choice if it was this was posted 10 years ago. And Jordan should win outright if this topic was made 10 years ago.
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Actually, they did change the set up of the Tour, trying to "Lance proof" it.
Didn't work.
It's a purer measure of an athlete's ability to compete against a defined objective - a clock, a speed, a distance, a weight - than it is to compete against other athletes in a physical confrontation. If a b-ball player, for instance like Shaq, scores 60 points in a game, is it because he was so very "on" that night? Or is it because the opposing team didn't show up? Maybe that was the night Yao got introduced to Jack Daniels, y'know?