re: Rate these sports professions based on athleticism; your opinion.

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Well to be fair, Eaton doesn't run 10.2 and 45 consistently, those are his PRs.

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He's run both of those times on multiple occasions, in multiple years. And without ever training specifically for either event.

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But if Russell dropped pounds, I don't see why not. His explosiveness is amazing, and I would guess that his top end speed isn't bad either.

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But I'd bet he's s ability to maintain that top end speed for an extra 70 meters further than he currently does is severely lacking. Like I said to someone else, remember Chris Rainey on a football field? Go look at his track numbers.

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I bet if Russell was a lifelong track/decathlete he would be putting up elite (maybe world class) results. Peaking/tapering and training can make athletes do amazing things in that sport.

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I could buy that in possibly 4 or 5 of the events. We have no idea about his ability to pole vault, do any of the throws, or run 1500.

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NASCAR...not a real sport...try again

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Have you ever driven a stock car?

It is absolutely physically exhausting over the length of a 500 mile race. While it may not be a a true sport. It is certainly something that requires physical stamina, hand eye coordination, muscle control....etc.

It mostly measures strength and endurance, but leaves out coordination for the most part, which is integral for any team sport involving a ball.

Other events are repetitive and some even irrelevant

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There's absolutely no way to even guess who would be better without knowing about their past sport playing history, especially with the skill sets needed for each sport.

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Which is why I said to assume for the purposes of that argument that none of them have any experience in anything other than the sport they currently play. So you're assuming Westbrook only possesses the skills that make him good at basketball and trout at baseball.

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But he doesn't fall into the world class long jumper category.

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Meh, his 8.03m jump at the olympics would've put him in Long Jump finals and had him finishing 6th overall. That's world class, imo.

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Good long jumper compared to the pitiful state of America in the event currently?

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The US is actually the best in the world at that event right now. Marquise Goodwin did choke in 2012 though.

Everything involves coordination to some extent. For those events, it's not very technical compared to what is needed in say, basketball , football, or baseball.

Ok, you can throw a javelin. But can you throw it on the run, across your body, 40 yards with accuracy?

Ok, you can run 100m fast, but can you turn your back in a full sprint and track down a ball? Or weave in and out of defenders in an open court and finish at the rim?

You think the long jump & pole vault require timing, but can you perfect the footwork, arm strength, and hand/eye a 2B needs to turn a double play? Or a WR's route in perfect sync with a QB, getting by a great CB and receiving a ball with a MLB bearing down on you?


Those track events require athleticism but just at its basic measure.

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Ok, you can throw a javelin. But can you throw it on the run, across your body, 40 yards with accuracy?

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Well for starters, javelin throwers are already on the run. Secondly, they have to throw it 80+ meters, while maintains control of their body, within the sector. And if their release is even slightly off, for any number of reasons, the javelin nose dives, or goes to high, or comes out shaking and doesn't fly as far. The ducks Peyton manning throws on a routine basis would spell failure for a javelin thrower.

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Ok, you can run 100m fast, but can you turn your back in a full sprint and track down a ball? Or weave in and out of defenders in an open court and finish at the rim?

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How many NFL or nba players can clear 10 42" hurdles in 110 meters, with other people in the same race on either side of them, while maintaining enough sPeed to cover that distance in 13 seconds?

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You think the long jump & pole vault require timing, but can you perfect the footwork, arm strength, and hand/eye a 2B needs to turn a double play? Or a WR's route in perfect sync with a QB, getting by a great CB and receiving a ball with a MLB bearing down on you?

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If you can simplify long jump and pole vault down to just timing, I can simplify your above examples to catching and throwing a ball. See how that works?

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Those track events require athleticism but just at its basic measure.

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Only because you don't understand them.

Basketball
Football
Soccer
Baseball

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The pros won't be doing that until their national trials at least, maybe not even until August for worlds.

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Not many pros will be hitting ~8.35m in August anyway.

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And where are you seeing that on Goodwin?

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My bad, wrong person. It's a Henderson, not Goodwin.

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You don't think collegiate men and women are each 3 of the top 5 200 meter runners in the world do you?

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For men they currently are. Do I think they'll finish top 5 at Worlds? Not a chance. It wouldn't suprise me to see at least one out of Dukes, Bromell, and even the juiced up (I'm convinced) De Grasse in the finals though. But sprints are a whole different animal compared to jumps when it comes to collegiates going from NCAAs, to US Champs, to Worlds in the same year.

The fact that baseball is in your top five discredits the whole OP.