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The most outrageously talented and skilful sports person in your opinion.

Insofar as you can lets ignore what constitutes a sport. And ignore most titles won/records set etc. Outrageously gifted is not in my opinion as the best winner. For me Ronnie O'sullivan must be in  with a shout, along with Roger Federer 

 

Usain B, must be up there as what Panda says in Alex Higgins, who was about 20 years ahead of his time.

@ Kimmy Michael J another excellent shout.

 

No one has mentioned Tiger. W?

Jean-Luc Van Den Heede.  In his 70’s and destroying the opposition who are mainly half his age in a solo round the world sailing race using only 1960’s technology.

Tom Brady. He once said I know I'm not the biggest quarterback, or the fastest, or have the strongest arm. But I've been in eight Superbowls and won five of them.

To him its all mental, studying and reading the game better than anyone and knowing that you have to stay super fit as the years go by.

David Gower, just pure innate skill and ability, a joy to watch even for a cricket novice like me.

Makalele, not showy or even a goal scorer, but you know a player is good when a position on the field is named after him forevermore.  My favourite quote about him was from Joe Cole, himself a fantastic natural talent, who was talking about that back to back champions Chelsea team and said,"Maka, that guy could find a pass to me when I was anywhere.  Sometimes I wasn't even sure where I was on the pitch and suddenly the ball had dropped to my feet, that was how good Maka was, he knew where I wasn't even if I didn't know myself!"

 

Emil Zatopek

Emil Zátopek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɛmɪl ˈzaːtopɛk] (About this sound listen); 19 September 1922 – 22 November 2000) was a Czechoslovak long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life.[1] He was nicknamed the "Czech Locomotive".

In 1954, Zátopek was the first runner to break the 29-minute barrier in the 10,000 metres. Three years earlier in 1951, he had broken the hour for running 20 km. He was considered one of the greatest runners of the 20th century and was also known for his brutally tough training methods. He was the originator of interval training and hypoventilation training.[2]

In February 2013, the editors at Runner's World Magazine selected him as the Greatest Runner of All Time.[3] He is the only person to win the 5,000 metres (24 July, 1952), 10,000 metres (20 July, 1952) and Marathon (27 July, 1952), in the same Olympic Games.[4][5][6]

 

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I'm going to pick my m7 womble (real name Dave)

played england u 19s rugby, turned down an apprenticeship at Reading footie cos he needed to work, surfed and skateboarded at int comp level (re surfing he went to ant int comp only 3 months after he picked a board up).  scratch golfer too.

 

w**ker

Some interesting conflations of 'hard work, application and commitment' with 'talent'. 

On that basis, there's an NFL player who's basically never dropped a catch. Routinely makes freakish catches look easy. Probably someone like him.

In my world, Federer or Jeff Wilson (international rugby and cricket).

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