By that token,
Marty Post wrote: >An average athlete can hit a baseball at say maybe 50 miles per hour, but >certainly not 90-95 mph. And one can argue that those are two completely different acts. >An average athlete can ride a bicycle up a down some >difficult hills, but could never do so at speeds and terrain found on the >Tour de France. Riding down a winding 10% grade - and riding down a winding 10% grade in the middle of an peloton, with a wheel 2 feet in front of yours, and another person that close behind you - are again completely different acts - as different as straight poling a vault and bending the pole. >But consider pole vaulting. Not only are 15-16 foot heights unapproachable, >it's hard to imagine even a recreational athlete getting a few feet over the >bar with anything ressembling proper pole vault technique. By that token, they didn't even list the act that I've long considered the most difficult in sports - the various tumbling feats done by woman gymnasts on the balance beam. How someone can even LEARN to do a back flip and land on a beam barely the width of my foot is beyond me. Phil
