Rob Eastaway
speaker
207 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard 3 Jun
Rob Eastaway’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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To identify the world's greatest, why not look at which sportsman has managed to spend the longest amount of time as world number one?
Tiger Woods managed to be top of the golf rankings for over ten years before his recent fall from grace.
By this measure, though, there's a British sportsman who pips Tiger for the title.
Phil the Power Taylor has had an almost unbroken position as world number one in darts since 1998.
And yes, darts is now officially a sport.
We can of course let the market decide.
On this score, the world's greatest sportsman at the moment could be Alex Rodriguez.
He's paid around $30 million a year, and that's before all the product endorsements.
In case you're wondering, he plays baseball.
But can he really be called the world's greatest when his name barely registers in public consciousness outside his own country?
Of course, greatness also depends on many things that are hard to measure, such as charisma, style and an ability to hit the headlines.
With all this complex and sometimes conflicting data, perhaps we should put our trust in the wisdom of crowds.
Despite the diverse and often ill-informed opinion of the public, put enough people together and they often manage to come up with the right answer.
And if we ask the crowd who is the greatest sportsman, I think I know who will come out top.
Sachin Tendulkar.
Why?
He would win by sheer weight of population.
There are over a billion people in India who have little sporting interest other than cricket.
And a billion people can't be wrong, can they?
This is a picture of a crate of bottles you can just have between yourself and yourself.
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