Was Eric Heiden's 5 Individual Gold Medals at 1980 Lake Placid greatest Olympic performance ever?

bootlegger10

No

rgambs said:

He skated fast.
Phelps swam fast.

Sure, they both dominated hardcore, but they only did 1 thing with minor tweaks.
A single gold medal in the decathlon or all-around gymnastics is more impressive than either of their very impressive Olympic runs.

COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU.

Big Bank Hank

Yes

HesCalledDyer said:

pjhawks said:

I'd say Carl Lewis 1984 winning gold in the 100m, 200m, 4x100 relay and the Long Jump

or

the 1980 USA Men's Hockey team for beating the greatest team in the world with college players in the biggest upset in the history of sports.

The latter wasn't for a medal, though.

Carl Lewis & Jesse Owens were both real dominant

gregkitefan

No

No.
The 2018 US Mens Curling Team!!!

Big Bank Hank

Yes

gregkitefan said:

No.
The 2018 US Mens Curling Team!!!

that was pretty amazing, I stayed up until past 1 am watching, the 5 stones in the 8th leg was amazing

HesCalledDyer

No

2004 USA softball team:
Undefeated 7-game run to win the gold, allowing only 19 hits and outscoring opponents 51-1 along the way.  4 wins came by run rule and that lone run allowed occurred in the next to last inning of the gold medal game.

Big Bank Hank

Yes

HesCalledDyer said:

2004 USA softball team:
Undefeated 7-game run to win the gold, allowing only 19 hits and outscoring opponents 51-1 along the way.  4 wins came by run rule and that lone run allowed occurred in the next to last inning of the gold medal game.

people watch softball?

KC138045

No

This was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxCUHjx7U7Y

rgambs

No

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

2004 USA softball team:
Undefeated 7-game run to win the gold, allowing only 19 hits and outscoring opponents 51-1 along the way.  4 wins came by run rule and that lone run allowed occurred in the next to last inning of the gold medal game.

people watch softball?

Beats the pants off the overblown game of shuffle board they call Curling.

Big Bank Hank

Yes

rgambs said:

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

2004 USA softball team:
Undefeated 7-game run to win the gold, allowing only 19 hits and outscoring opponents 51-1 along the way.  4 wins came by run rule and that lone run allowed occurred in the next to last inning of the gold medal game.

people watch softball?

Beats the pants off the overblown game of shuffle board they call Curling.

oh wow really? sure doesn't get the ratings, in fact didn't they toss softball out of the olympics for drawing too little attention?

KC138045

No

Big Bank Hank said:

rgambs said:

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

2004 USA softball team:
Undefeated 7-game run to win the gold, allowing only 19 hits and outscoring opponents 51-1 along the way.  4 wins came by run rule and that lone run allowed occurred in the next to last inning of the gold medal game.

people watch softball?

Beats the pants off the overblown game of shuffle board they call Curling.

oh wow really? sure doesn't get the ratings, in fact didn't they toss softball out of the olympics for drawing too little attention?

They tossed because the USA kicked everyone's ass.  Too little competition.

Big Bank Hank

Yes

KC138045 said:

This was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxCUHjx7U7Y

Big Bank Hank

Yes

KC138045 said:

Big Bank Hank said:

rgambs said:

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

2004 USA softball team:
Undefeated 7-game run to win the gold, allowing only 19 hits and outscoring opponents 51-1 along the way.  4 wins came by run rule and that lone run allowed occurred in the next to last inning of the gold medal game.

people watch softball?

Beats the pants off the overblown game of shuffle board they call Curling.

oh wow really? sure doesn't get the ratings, in fact didn't they toss softball out of the olympics for drawing too little attention?

They tossed because the USA kicked everyone's ass.  Too little competition.

that there proves why it isn't the best, if the Warriors beat a high school team there is nothing awesome about that, most softball teams outside of United States totally suck

HesCalledDyer

No

Then the 1988 Yugoslavian basketball team.  They are the reason the US allowed pros to play for the national team (because we couldn't beat them with amateurs) as well as opening the door to the NBA drafting foreign-born players.  All because of their dominant Olympic performance.

Big Bank Hank

Yes

HesCalledDyer said:

Then the 1988 Yugoslavian basketball team.  They are the reason the US allowed pros to play for the national team (because we couldn't beat them with amateurs) as well as opening the door to the NBA drafting foreign-born players.  All because of their dominant Olympic performance.

yes that was awesome. RIP Yugoslavia

rgambs

No

Big Bank Hank said:

rgambs said:

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

2004 USA softball team:
Undefeated 7-game run to win the gold, allowing only 19 hits and outscoring opponents 51-1 along the way.  4 wins came by run rule and that lone run allowed occurred in the next to last inning of the gold medal game.

people watch softball?

Beats the pants off the overblown game of shuffle board they call Curling.

oh wow really? sure doesn't get the ratings, in fact didn't they toss softball out of the olympics for drawing too little attention?

Ratings?
BABY cares about network ratings?  LOL
I'm joshing ya.

Really though, it's a point worth making.
NBC chooses what people watch and their coverage greatly increases the appeal of sports like curling.  It looks like fun to play, but it's not exciting to watch when you compare it to freestyle board events.
In fact, many people think curling was only added in '98 to counter the growing popularity of the extreme sports.  The theory goes, they added a nice traditional (boring) game for the stodgy old farts and they had NBC ram it down people's throats until they convinced them to like it.
I buy that theory easy enough.
It's easy to see how they push certain sports to the forefront in coverage, it's extreme sometimes.

HesCalledDyer

No

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Then the 1988 Yugoslavian basketball team.  They are the reason the US allowed pros to play for the national team (because we couldn't beat them with amateurs) as well as opening the door to the NBA drafting foreign-born players.  All because of their dominant Olympic performance.

yes that was awesome. RIP Yugoslavia

Indeed.  RIP Drazen Petrovic as well.  Dude had the potential to be as good as Jordan.
We had a foreign exchange student from Croatia during the Yugoslav civil war and fall of communism. HUGE Petrovic fan.  HAAAAAATED Vlade Divac bc of the flag thing at '90 Worlds.  But I became a Drazen fan bc of him.  And I could go along with disliking Vlade just because I couldn't stand the Lakers.  Petrovic had a special talent that doesn't come along often, especially at the same time another special talent is dominating the sport. When he died, you'd have thought this kid's big brother died. He took it pretty tough.

Big Bank Hank

Yes

HesCalledDyer said:

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Then the 1988 Yugoslavian basketball team.  They are the reason the US allowed pros to play for the national team (because we couldn't beat them with amateurs) as well as opening the door to the NBA drafting foreign-born players.  All because of their dominant Olympic performance.

yes that was awesome. RIP Yugoslavia

Indeed.  RIP Drazen Petrovic as well.  Dude had the potential to be as good as Jordan.
We had a foreign exchange student from Croatia during the Yugoslav civil war and fall of communism. HUGE Petrovic fan.  HAAAAAATED Vlade Divac bc of the flag thing at '90 Worlds.  But I became a Drazen fan bc of him.  And I could go along with disliking Vlade just because I couldn't stand the Lakers.  Petrovic had a special talent that doesn't come along often, especially at the same time another special talent is dominating the sport. When he died, you'd have thought this kid's big brother died. He took it pretty tough.

There was a great ESPN 30 for 30 where Vlade went back to visit Drazen's family it's very emotional 

HesCalledDyer

No

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Big Bank Hank said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Then the 1988 Yugoslavian basketball team.  They are the reason the US allowed pros to play for the national team (because we couldn't beat them with amateurs) as well as opening the door to the NBA drafting foreign-born players.  All because of their dominant Olympic performance.

yes that was awesome. RIP Yugoslavia

Indeed.  RIP Drazen Petrovic as well.  Dude had the potential to be as good as Jordan.
We had a foreign exchange student from Croatia during the Yugoslav civil war and fall of communism. HUGE Petrovic fan.  HAAAAAATED Vlade Divac bc of the flag thing at '90 Worlds.  But I became a Drazen fan bc of him.  And I could go along with disliking Vlade just because I couldn't stand the Lakers.  Petrovic had a special talent that doesn't come along often, especially at the same time another special talent is dominating the sport. When he died, you'd have thought this kid's big brother died. He took it pretty tough.

There was a great ESPN 30 for 30 where Vlade went back to visit Drazen's family it's very emotional 

Once Brothers.  It's probably my favorite of the 30 for 30's.

Given to...

Yes

He's my knee doctor.  Has a nice little trophy case in his office in Park City.

Degeneratefk

https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU