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Originally Posted by GusJohnsonGOAT
Weird person to choose making this point. I agree it's used too often, but Simone is pretty much unanimously the GOAT.
Its contagious and widespread but that doesn’t mean it’s true. Just that no one was around to remember the dominance of someone from 40/50/60 years ago.
She’s absolutely incredible and clearly the best gymnast of her generation but currently has 6 gold medals which is 3rd all time. 3 less golds and 7 less total Olympic medals than the leader. Who also went to 3 Games only. Larissa Latynina.
There’s just this infuriating race to anoint people with an ‘all time’ tag off false comparisons, almost always by people who haven’t done even 10 mins research.
Like, sure Biles has more world championship golds. But that’s because they’re held every year. When they used to be held every 4 years
Last edited by feel wrath; 08-01-2024 at 06:31 PM.