The TEN Best and the TEN “ GREATEST” Olympians of all time

The TEN  Best and the TEN “ GREATEST” Olympians of all time  

The  Tokyo Olympic Games would start .The opening ceremony holds quiet a suspence whether will the games start on a perfect note and the footing.It is because the CORONA WARFARE has gripped the nations and it seems that many will turn up if the games are held in it’s scheduled time, unprepared and that might hurt the performance of the athletes.

The Olympics provides and it  promises to provide another sporting feast of spectacular deeds, record-breaking feats and high drama.

Here, taking the help of many statistics, history, facts and the records, and also taking all the help from the  Press Association Sport, I  looks back over more than 100 exactly 124 years, and many researches done in these 124 years  of Olympic history and I identify arguably the 10 greatest Olympians.

Here are my writings on the TEN ever GREATEST Olympians of all the time

1 ) . Carl Lewis

United States, athletics

A phenomenal all-round athlete who took the Olympics by storm, Lewis announced his Games arrival at Los Angeles 32 years ago, where he won four gold medals (100 metres, 200m, long jump and 4x100m relay). In Seoul four years later, he captured 100m after the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was disqualified for having consumed drugs to win that Gold,  and long jump gold, plus 200m silver, while further long jump golds followed in 1992 and 1996, plus another relay gold. Few could disagree and  contest  that he is one of the GREATEST  the greatest Olympian of all time.

2). Nadia Comaneci

Romania, gymnastics

Comaneci took the sporting world by storm,  and aged just 14, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics she created a weather of MIRACLES and MIRACLES to the disbelief of the eye’s.

During the team competition, her performance on the uneven bars gained her a perfect score of 10, the first time such a mark had been awarded in Olympic history.

 Her mark was initially displayed as 1.00, with the scoreboard unable to cope, but it was soon rectified and the enormity of her feat began to sink in.

Comaneci won three golds at Montreal, then two more in Moscow four years later.

 3 ) . Michael Phelps

United States, swimming

 Perhaps this entire UNIVERSE would be finished but NOT and NEVER the achievement of Michael Phelp

Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in the Games’ history, collecting a staggering 22 medals. Remarkably, 18 of those were gold, with six won at Athens 2004, eight more in Beijing four years later and then another four at London 2012. The collection is made up of two silver and two bronze and he could feature in Rio after coming out of retirement and meeting qualifying standards.

His record and his achievement of bagging the EIGHT GOLD MEDAL in ONE Olympics is the RECORD of the HIGHEST GOLD MEDALS  to have been won by any athlete in a single summer game of the Olympics and it overhauled the record of mark Spitzs who had won SEVEN in the 1972 Olympics

Take it- MY WORDS.His accumulation of the 22 medals in the OLYMPICS a number will NEVER be broken at anytime in the days to come by any athletes in the Olympics games

 4 ). Larisa Semyonovna Latynina, (born December 27, 1934, Kherson, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.), Soviet gymnast who was the first woman athlete to win nine rpt NINE  Olympic gold medals and was one of the most decorated competitors in the history of the Games.

At the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia, Latynina, who was educated at the Kiev State Institute of Physical Culture, won the women’s competition in the combined exercises, the vault, and the floor exercise (in which she tied for first place).

At the 1960 Olympics in Rome she again placed first in the combined and the floor exercise, and in Tokyo in 1964 she captured her third consecutive gold medal in the floor exercise.

Latynina also won gold medals as a member of the Soviet Union’s six-member women’s gymnastics team in 1956, 1960, and 1964. In addition, she was awarded five silver and four bronze medals in those three Games.

Her record of 18 career Olympic medals stood until 2012, when it was surpassed by American swimmer Michael Phelps. After she retired from competition, Latynina was a teacher and national senior coach and was active in the planning of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

 5 ) .Jesse Owens

United States, athletics

The Olympic 1936 at Berlin was famoius for Jessie Owens and Major Dhyanchand . It was Owens who RAZED the entire WORLD by not only his act of winning FOUR GOLD MEDALS but to defy Adolf Hitler of NOT accepting the medals by him in the prize ceremony and not saying to I BOW when the Germans would award those medals in the prize ceremony when they would say – HAIL HITLER. Owens made it very clear- I WILL NEVER SAY  “ I BOW TO THEE “ ie Adolf Hitler

If Adolf Hitler was challenged in this manner by Jessie Owens then it was Major Dhyanchand who spanned a MAGIS of ARTISTIC HOCKEY to MESMERISE the entire world to win the Hockey Gold for India and REFUSING to accept the OFFDER from Hitler to join his Army as a FIELD MARSHSAL

Dhaynchand was THREE  OLYMPIC GOLD by then but was aged 32 however Owens was aged only 23.

The Olympics were not held in 1940 and 1944 or else Owens could have been the FIRST to win 10 Olympic medals perhaps – ALL GOLD but Dhyanchand DEFINITELY would have added TWO MORE GOLDS to swell his tally to FIVE GOLDS on an INDIVIDUAL BASIS

However Dhyanchand’s THREE GOLD IN THREE OLYMPICS, CONSECUTIVELY makes him the GREATEST EVER INDIAN SPORTSMAN but the HONOUR                 “ WRONGLY ”  was passed onto Sachin Tendulkar when he was CONFRERRED the BHARAT RATNA, COURTESTY BARKING ELEMENTS like Boria Majumdar, Rajdeep  Sardesai,  and a HOST of the PARROT CHATTERS of the world of IDIOT BOX, and the party RULED by the Italian Pasta and controlled by Mr Manmohan Singh

The 1936 Olympics will forever be remembered as the Games when Owens broke down boundaries for black athletes. In the face of Adolf Hitler’s intimidating claims of ‘Aryan Supremacy’, Owens won gold medals in the 100m, 200m, sprint relay and long jump. A year earlier, he had set five world records in one day – and equalled a sixth – while his world long jump record lasted for more than 25 years.

 6 ) . Mark Spitz

United States, swimming

Spitz is a nine-time Olympic champion and former world record holder in seven different events.

He won seven golds in one Games – Munich 1972 – which was a record held until Michael Phelps broke it 36 years later.

Spitz set world records in all of his Munich Olympics events and was the Olympic movement’s most decorated swimmer until Phelps appeared on the scene.

Spitz was world swimmer of the year three times in four years from 1968 to 1972.

7 ) . Major Dhyanchand

GOLD- 1928, 1932, 1936

No other Indian sportsman did ever send a feeling of “ BUZZ” on the field the way this GREAT “ MAGICIAN “ of Indian hockey did it right from the time when he played his FIRST Olympics at Amsterdam, Holland in 1928 to the last in Berlin in 1936

He was holding the world  record for the MOST GOLD MEDALS in the Olympics .It was THREE IN THREE when Jessie owens took it over to make FOUR GOLDS in one single edition of Olympics in 1936

The FIRST GOLD MEDAL in 1928 was achieved when INDIA scored 35 goals in the SEVEN OLYMPICS matches it played without CONCEDING EVEN ONE .While he ended his OLYMPIC HOCKEY CAREER there were ONLY THREE goals conceded thereafter by the Indian team, Japan and USA hitting one each in 1932 and Germany netting ONE in the finals of 1936

From 1928 when he won that FIRST GOLD in the OLYMPICS for India , till the African sojoun of India in 1948 when he was aged 44 and when he decided to do away with hockey India lost ONLY TWO GAMES to it’s opponent and what was more- HE ENDED SCORING  “ 1024 ”  goals in HOCKEY for INDIA and for all the other club team that he represented them during his entire hockey career . 

HE IS THE FIRST LIVING HUMAN BEING WHO SCORED MORE THAN 1000 GOALS IN A FIELD BALL GAME IN THE UNIVERSE TO BE FOLLOWED BY KING PELE AND ROMARIO THE TWO OTHER GREATS OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL

With that kind of such a SURMOUNTABLE achievement the GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   decided to confer and conferred the BHARAT RATNA to Sachin Tendulkar whose 65% of the centuries that he has scored out of the 200 saw India losing the international TEST MATCHES that he played against his cricketing opponent.

REALLY- MERA BHARAT MAHAN

Usain Bolt

Jamaica, athletics

The “Lightning Bolt” struck spectacularly at the Beijing Olympics and London 2012, winning a double gold medal treble of 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles.

A charismatic sportsman with an enormous worldwide following, Bolt also holds the 100m and 200m world records he in his entire career won 23 GOLD MEDALS all included in the Olympics and the WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS  and will be considered as the BEST EVER TRACK ATHLETE THAT WAS EVER BORN IN THIS  WORLD

IT IS VERY UNLIKELY THAT HIS TALLY OF 23 GOLDS WILL EVER BE BROKEN AT ANYTIME BY ANYBODY IN THE DAYS TO COME .

Teofilo Stevenson

Cuba, boxing

One of only three boxers in Olympic history to win three gold medals – Hungarian Laszlo Papp and Stevenson’s fellow Cuban Felix Savon are the others – Stevenson dominated the heavyweight division as he triumphed in 1972, 1976 and 1980.

He also won three world championship amateur titles over a 12-year period and is arguably the most famous Cuban sportsman of all time.

Bob Beamon

United States, athletics

Long jumper Beamon achieved what remains among the greatest Olympic performances, leaping an astonishing 29 feet, 2.5 inches at Mexico City in 1968  ie 8.90 metres to win gold.

 It was more than a foot clear of any other previously recorded jump as Beamon almost leapt out of the Mexico long jump pit.

His world record lasted for 23 years until it was broken by his fellow American Mike Powell.

  

This summarises the entire story TRUE with all the facts and the stratistics as well as the history in short about the TEN GREATEST ALL TIME OLYMPIANS THAT THE WORLS COULD EVER SEE AND COULD PRODUCE

Regards

Shyamal Bhattacharjee