Best Athletes in the world

said it already on the first page, but adventure racers at least deserve a better look from most of yous kids.

from thegearjunkie.com:

"Adventure racing is a sport characterized by its long and sleepless multidisciplinary race courses, and Primal Quest, which was created in 2002, is the largest and longest race of all. This year’s course, which began in central Utah and finished 417 miles later near the town of Moab, included trekking, kayaking, mountaineering, canyoneering, riverboarding, horseback riding, orienteering, mountain biking, and multiple rope climbs and rappels. Each discipline made up a course within a course, some segments requiring 30 hours of race time or more for each team to complete.

Racers go nonstop at Primal Quest, pushing their bodies for days and nights on end. Gear, food and water are carried in backpacks. A map and compass are the racers’ sole guides to mandatory course checkpoints that form a vague route through the desolation. Sleep is purely optional."
 
oh, i found the race disciplines. crazy.

Race start: 6AM, Sunday, June 25, 2006

Leg 1: Horseback riding, 23 miles

Leg 2: Desert trekking, 23 miles

Leg 3: Mountain biking, 54 miles

Leg 4: Whitewater swim, 8 miles

Leg 5: Paddling, 35 miles

Leg 6: Canyoneering, 27 miles

Leg 7: Paddling, 45 miles

Leg 8: Canyoneering, 33 miles

Leg 9: Mountain biking, 20 miles

Leg 10: Ropes, 300-foot rappel

Leg 11: Mountain biking, 46 miles

Leg 12: Mountain trekking, 38 miles

Leg 13: Mountain biking, 42 miles

Leg 14: Mountain trekking, 9 miles

Leg 15: Ropes, 500-foot ascends, rappels, zipline

Leg 16: Paddling, 2 miles

Finish Line (first-place team): 5:45AM, Saturday, July 1, 2006
 
rugby doesnt stop and start, NFL is gnarl and they get hit hard as fuck but rugby is gnar and a more constant beating try playing it and youll understand we dont have cups either hahaha or "jockstraps" There both preety gnarley sports though but there no wear near as hard as surfing, skatting, or skiing or moto x
 
rowing puts in a pretty good run for the money in a single sport type deal. and would win as far as team sports go.
 
Formula F1 and rally car racing is soooooooooooo much harder then racing around the same ring for 400 laps. nascar is gay
 
^ yeah, i'm not going to say flat out that rowing is the hardest/most demanding sport in the world, but i will say that it produces incredible atheletes. 

rowing requires precise technique and perfect synchronicity and a race basically requires you to sprint all out for 6-8 minutes,  nonstop, with no mistakes because you cannot let down the rest of your boat. it's kind of like the ultimate team sport. plus it works just about every muscle in your body. there are rowers who have crossed over to other sports like nordic or cycling and done extremely well because they are in such amazing shape from rowing.

but i think it's difficult to label one type of athelete as "the best" because different sports require different skills -- both gymnasts and cyclists are amazing atheletes, but completely different because their sports demand completely different skills. 
 
he's right. pple are talking how skating is the most tech, ironman requires the most endurance, football the most strength, motocross or something extreme requiring the most balls. but put all those together and uve got professional fighters, they are strong, quick, agile, have a shit load of endurance, there is a huge technical aspect to it, and they sure do have a set or ballz
 
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