SI toughest athletes.

aka "Wild man of Borneo"

 

Was not Kasparov running against Putin recently? That's tough - could land you into some Siberian uranium mines or something..

I have already submitted my vote for the toughest guy out there.

Competitive eater? On the list? **** me with a chainsaw.

 

Kasparov was full of **** and was actually exposed. Basically he was one of those people who said "Country is being run wrong and I'm gona fix it" but when asked how you're going to do it he choked... and started getting angry and pissy at the journalist

 

My vote would got to a Tour de France cyclist, or a tri-athlete; some insane stamina sport.

 

That is pure physical endurance. Compare that to high altitude mountaineering, or solo rock climbing - where you have just as much, or more, of physical effort combined with a constant threat to your life.

 

If its true those things have the same physical requirements as say, competing (and doing well) in the Tour de France, I agree with you. Whether they do or not, I dont know.

 

Tour riders are super elite athletes, but I would not call such pure strength to be "toughness" - the topic of this thread.

Physical stress of getting up a high mountain maybe even harder then the Tour. You do it non-stop for days, there are no massages in between stages, there is little air, it is brutally cold, you are basically slowly dying. And in rock climbing - look at the little clip I posted - guy is hanging by his fingertips a mile off the ground, after going on for hours. Tour riders are spoiled prima-donnas next to this.

 

:thumbsup

 

Nah, climbers are little spoiled kids compared to hot dog eating beasts... now that **** is tough...

 

My top 3:

Lance Armstrong- cancer survivor, cycling phenom, greatest V02max recorded to date.

Fedor Em.-nuff said


Chris McCormack- Latest winner of the Hawaiin Ironman. If your not feeling me than picture a 3km swim, followed by a 180 km bike ride and a full marathon. 8 and a bit hours later you'll understand how intense these guys are.

 

Fit, yes, no questions, tough - I have seen a bunch of triathletes on 24 hours and multi-day adventure races, and many do not do that well at night and off-road.

 

I agree with what your saying in principle, but you can put those multi/24 hr adventure racers against these guys in an Ironman event and they'd get eaten up.

It comes down to what your trained for- it's not that the Ironman athletes finish their race, it's that a lot do it under 9 hrs thats special.

It's really upto what a guy trains at.

 

Right - but the topic of this thread was "toughness". It is a fuzzy thing, but we can make a guess on what it is. You put a triathlete in a curling competition and they will not do that very well - but you would not call curling as a tough sport.

I consider multi-day off-road sleep deprived run to be "tougher" then a pure endurance race - just like I consider 24-hours of Moab bike ride over sand trap to be "tougher" then a few hours of a road race stage - even as road race and triathlon may require a higher level of endurance and skills.

But it is all splitting hairs. What we can agree on is that competitive eating, or other non-contact, non-life threatening sports are probably less "tough"...

 

dear god mayweather hes ***** tiger number 1 for what strolling a golf course wow tough as nails wheres gatti or someone like sakaruba

 

ya should have said that