原创2024-03-13 07:00·眼见客愁
"GOAT" means the first person in history.
If he can be recognized as the first person in history in the sports he is engaged in, then his strength must be unparalleled in the world, and his honor must be dazzling, surpassing all his predecessors and opponents of the same era, and his comprehensive ability and influence must be unprecedented, touching the limits of human beings, so that the younger generations have almost no possibility of surpassing.
Today, we will take a look at the seven "GOATs" in world sports, and as a sports fan, we have to say that it is an honor and luck to be able to witness their legendary road.
1. Athletics GOAT: "Lightning" Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt, born in 1986, is a Jamaican sprinter and sprint superstar who has single-handedly turned the world sprinting landscape into a "one-man show".
Usain Bolt has dominated three Olympic cycles, starting with the 2008 Beijing Olympics and winning three consecutive titles in the 100m and 200m in 2016.
In these 12 long years, Bolt won 19 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze, ranking first in history. He won 140 races and broke the world record eight times in his career, including six in the 100m and two in the 200m.
Bolt is currently the world record holder in the 100m and 200m (9.58 seconds, 19.19 seconds), both of which were set at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.
In addition, Bolt has won the Laureus World Sports Award for Male Athlete of the Year four times ('09, '10, '13, '17).
Throughout his career, with 0 doping uses, 0 doping test violations, and 0 doping scandals, he is the perfect combination of talent and speed, the ceiling of human athletics.
After 13 years, the current sprinters still don't see any possibility of getting close to Usain Bolt.
Second, the swimming GOAT: "Flying Fish" Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps (born 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer.
Although the 19-year-old Phelps won 6 gold medals at the 04 Athens Olympics, his real fame was in the 08 Beijing Olympics.
In that Olympic Games, Phelps won 8 gold medals in 9 days and broke the world record 7 times, setting a new record for the highest gold medal won by a single person in the Olympic Games, and at the same time creating an unprecedented swimming myth.
In the next 12 London Olympics and 16 Rio Olympics, although Phelps's form declined, he was still able to win gold medals, and participated in 4 Olympic Games, Phelps won a total of 23 gold medals.
For those who came after him, this record was as unattainable as Mount Everest.
3. Basketball GOAT: Michael Jordan
Jordan, born in New York, USA in 1963, was a basketball superstar who swept the world in the 90s of the last century, and almost became the spokesperson of basketball.
There was a saying that described Jordan like this: "If Chamberlain is an angel sent by God, then Jordan is God himself".
Jordan spent a total of 15 years in the NBA, leading the Chicago Bulls to 6 NBA championships, Jordan won a total of 5 regular season MVPs (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998), 6 Finals MVPs (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998), 3 All-Star MVPs (1988, 1996, 1998), and a total of 14 MVPs.
In addition, Jordan also won 10 scoring titles, scored first in the Finals, and scored a total of 32,295 points in his career in only 15 seasons, and the first-ranked Abdul-Jabbar scored a total of 38,387 points, but it took 20 seasons.
After Jordan, the league gave birth to countless "Jordan successors", all of whom are superstar-level figures, but all of them have hard injuries, and they have only approached Joe's gang leader in one aspect.
For example, Kobe Bryant, who lacks dominance and only has a regular season MVP, Maddy, who has a similar style of play but is plagued by injuries and has a vacuum of team honors, and James, who has a slightly rough technique and has lost too many times in the finals.
After Jordan's retirement, his number 23 jersey also became the most popular jersey. In the eyes of fans, Jordan is not only a myth, but also a totem and belief in basketball.
Fourth, badminton GOAT: "Super Dan" Lin Dan
Lin Dan, born in Longyan City, Fujian Province in 1983, is a Chinese badminton men's singles player.
How brilliant is Lin Dan's career? Two-time Olympic Men's Singles Champion, five-time World Championships Men's Singles Champion, six-time Thomas Cup Champion, five-time Sudirman Cup Champion, and six-time All England Champion. In 2014, he achieved a double "Grand Slam" and won a total of 66 titles in his career, including 20 world titles.
In the popular "Lin Li War" that year, Lin Dan and Li Zongwei, Lin Dan had an absolute advantage, the two sides played against each other 40 times, Lin Dan won 28 wins and 12 losses, and the number of champions crushed Li Zongwei, which made Li Zongwei's feat of occupying the first place in the world ranking for a long time a laughing stock.
In addition to his achievements, Lin Dan's appearance is also easy to attract fans. He himself is handsome and handsome, and after winning, he likes to salute the military and thank the audience, coupled with his well-proportioned figure and masculine, the image of an iron-clad man jumps on the screen, and he has almost become a spokesperson for positive energy.
It's just that later, the successful Lin Dan fell, and his unruly love with the eighteenth-tier little female star Zhao Yaqi was exposed by the media, and the image of a good man collapsed instantly.
Although it collapsed, it is almost impossible for the badminton industry to find a player comparable to Lin Dan.
Fifth, table tennis GOAT: "Hexagonal Warrior" Ma Long
Ma Long, born in Anshan City, Liaoning Province in 1988, is a player of the Chinese men's table tennis team.
Ma Long is the first super Grand Slam male player to win the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, Asian Games, Asian Championships, Asian Cup, Tour Finals, and National Games singles championships, and has won it twice, known as the "Double Grand Slam".
In 2016, Japan's TV Tokyo used a six-dimensional radar chart to analyze the technical characteristics of major table tennis players, that is, strength, speed, skill, serve, defense, and experience in six aspects.
Since then, Malone has been known as the "Hexagonal Warrior".
"Hexagonal warrior" has gradually become an adjective on the Internet, describing a person's terrifying strength, flawless technology and shortcomings.
In his 20-year career, Ma Long has won 27 world championships, including 5 Olympic gold medals, and 143 large and small championships.
Under the premise that Chinese table tennis is full of talents, and any one of them is a world champion, Ma Long's achievements and dominance at his peak are unprecedented in the field of table tennis.
Sixth, tennis GOAT: "Little German" Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic, born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1987, is a tennis player and one of the "Big Three" in tennis.
Djokovic is the youngest of the Big Three, but also the strongest tennis superstar, his skills have almost no shortcomings, strong psychological quality, good at fierce battles, over 35 years old but there is no sign of deterioration, in Federer has retired, Nadal can only rely on clay to survive, Djokovic becomes the first person in the history of tennis is only a matter of time.
As of February 2023, Djokovic has won 93 ATP singles titles, including 24 Grand Slams, 38 Masters Series and six year-end finals, and has been ranked No. 1 in a career for 361 weeks.
The other two of the Big Three, Federer, who has 20 Grand Slams, has retired, Nadal, who has 22 Grand Slams, is almost constantly injured, and only Djokovic is still writing a new legend. At this rate, the number of Deyo Grand Slams after retirement could exceed 30, which is a terrifying achievement.
On the way to the first person in history and lock the younger generations to catch up with him, Deyo is soaring.
Seventh, football GOAT: "The third generation of football king" Lionel Messi
Messi, born in 1987 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, is an Argentine footballer and striker, currently playing for the Miami Club of the United States Professional League, living a semi-retired life.
Childe Messi, an Argentine, his full name is Leo Andrés Messi, the word flea, and the people in the rivers and lakes are called "Coal Boss" and "Mei Qilang".
This gentleman's virtue is like the sky, his skills are like gods, it is like the sun, and his hope is like a cloud; his fame is all over the world without arrogance, and he is not obscene with his daily progress; he is full of public and loyalty, and he can be able to do it in one, and he is immortal in one. He is the chosen son of football and the ultimate template for players, always representing the fairness and justice of football, the glory and dream of sports.
On December 18, 2022, after Messi led Argentina to win the World Cup, the word "Messi" has become synonymous with all the beauty and perfection in the history of human civilization.
So far, Messi has won a total of 43 team honors. At the club level, Messi has won 4 Champions League titles, 10 La Liga titles, 7 Copa del Rey titles, 3 Club World Cup titles, 3 UEFA Super Cup titles, 8 Spanish Super Cup titles, one Ligue 1 title and 1 French Super Cup title.
At the national team level, Messi won 1 World Youth Championship, 1 Olympic Championship, 1 Copa America Championship, 1 European and American Cup Championship, and 1 World Cup Championship.
In personal honors, Messi has won 8 Golden Ball Awards, 8 World Footballer of the Year, 3 European Best Players, 6 European Golden Boot Awards, 7 La Liga Golden Boot Awards, 2 Laureus Awards, and 2 World Cup Golden Ball Awards......
It's too difficult to list all of Messi's dazzling honors, because there are too many, and you will get intensive phobia after watching it for a long time.
In terms of goals, Messi's career total has reached 825 goals and 362 assists. In addition, Messi also has the miracle of 91 goals and 24 assists in a natural year.
With Messi's current form, all the goal and assist records in world football will be engraved with Messi's name, and we are witnessing history every step he takes on the pitch.