Champion of the Decade 2000-2009 In Italy

Edited by ZenSpeed, 30 December 2009 - 09:05.

Well, probably the #1 is hardly unexpected, given the the poll was done by Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport. But Schumi is already losing ground in their preferences....

Valentino Rossi (motociclismo) 41.0%
Roger Federer (tennis) 14.4%
Usain Bolt (atletica leggera) 8.4%
Michael Schumacher (automobilismo) 7.1%
Italian Football Team (calcio) 6.7%
Kobe Bryant (basket) 4.7%
Michael Phelps (nuoto) 4.0%
Valentina Vezzali (scherma) 3.3%
Federica Pellegrini (nuoto) 3.3%
Lance Armstrong (ciclismo) 3.2%
Yelena Isinbayeva (atletica leggera) 2.4%
Tiger Woods (golf) 1.6%

Edited by P123, 30 December 2009 - 09:12.

Edited by lafitek, 30 December 2009 - 09:21.

Italians never prefered Schumacher as the best in F1

Corriere...

http://www.corriere....;idSondaggio=96

Chi è il pilota di Formula1 più grande di tutti i tempi?



Ayrton Senna 67.4%
Alain Prost 17.8%
Michael Schumacher 13.7%
Juan Manuel Fangio 1.1%

Edited by aditya-now, 30 December 2009 - 09:45.

Rossi would probably have come out on top anyway, but that's the definition of 'fickle'!

Rossi would probably have come out on top anyway, but that's the definition of 'fickle'!

More interesting is where Tiger Woods is. You'd think going the Berlusconi route would be popular in Italy.

Never heard of Valentina Vezzali, but wikipeding her shows she has one heck of a record. Not as good as Birgit Fischer's though. I am glad this is an Italian poll as had Becky Adlington been included as one of the top ten sporting champions of the decade it would have been derided as little Englanderesque. And she is twice as successful as Pellegrini.

Edited by Simon Says, 30 December 2009 - 09:33.

He actually is a very nice, approachable dude with no arrogance

Agree, Rossi's carreer is just insane. He deserves #1, but it's a shame Moto GP style went to 250 cc bikes. It sure was funny how Rossi beat Stoner sometimes with his overpowered Ducatti ( this year wasn't so bad, but in the past the Ducati had a 30 km/h top speed advantage )

I"m suprised Lance Armstrong is very low too, I'd put him a bit higher in the list imo.

I"m suprised Lance Armstrong is very low too, I'd put him a bit higher in the list imo. Tiger woods probably dropped down alot because of his cheating

If we could properly believe in Armstrong, yes...

the greatest Gravel player of all time,

Well, probably the #1 is hardly unexpected, given the the poll was done by Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport. But Schumi is already losing ground in their preferences....

If we could properly believe in Usain Bolt, as well....

In contrast to the Americans we do not ignore that he has to be called Epo Lance as they found Epo in his 99' drug test, after the French devepolped the new test. Game over Lance

. It sure was funny how Rossi beat Stoner sometimes with his overpowered Ducatti ( this year wasn't so bad, but in the past the Ducati had a 30 km/h top speed advantage )

Italians never prefered Schumacher as the best in F1

Corriere...

http://www.corriere....;idSondaggio=96

Chi è il pilota di Formula1 più grande di tutti i tempi?



Ayrton Senna 67.4%
Alain Prost 17.8%
Michael Schumacher 13.7%
Juan Manuel Fangio 1.1%

Agree, Rossi's carreer is just insane. He deserves #1, but it's a shame Moto GP style went to 250 cc bikes. It sure was funny how Rossi beat Stoner sometimes with his overpowered Ducatti ( this year wasn't so bad, but in the past the Ducati had a 30 km/h top speed advantage )

Edited by Aloisioitaly, 30 December 2009 - 12:27.

Find those percentages difficult to believe when you consider people such as Gilles, Ascari and Mario (Italian) and how popular they were/are. While I'm sure highly appreciated, Senna never drove a Ferrari, MS bought Ferrari back from the dead and they were pretty fond of Mansell too - somethings not right there.

Two words: Internet poll.

Stoner has been the only one able to win riding Ducati. Capirossi, Melandri, Hayden... did they achieve anything?
Look at the manufacturer championship stats in the last few years, and you will get the answer: Stoner is a hell of a driver, far superior to his team mates than Valentino himself. Sometimes Ducati looked the best bike, but it was due to Stoner impressive talent.
Taht said, i still rate Valentino higher than Casey.

So what was it then when Rossi's Honda's and previous Aprillia's blew the other bikes off for power?

Edited by Simon Says, 30 December 2009 - 14:26.

Kobe Bryant's result amazes me.. didnt think he would be so high.

He left Honda, cause he was bored with it and Biaggi saying all the time that he was only winning because he was riding a Honda. So he switched bikes with Biaggi and he still won while others had a much better bike than him

edit: The power advantage between Ducati and Yamaha at some point was way too big. Honda was never that much faster than anyone else down the straight. It almost looked as if Yahama and Honda were standing still on the straights, they couldn't even slipstream passed the Ducati's

You will learn one day that power alone means nothing. Caparossi is a 3 times world champion and he couldn´t beat Rossi on the Duc. Melandri a 1 time W/C and neither could he. Dito Hayden.
When he rode the Honda, Stoner simply didn´t get on with the Michelin front tyre, which resulted ih him crashing a bit to often. Also, don´t forget he was a rookie on a customer Honda, but still managed to put the bike on pole in his very first GP in the big class. If that failed to impress you, then nothing will.

Edited by Simon Says, 30 December 2009 - 15:26.

You will learn one day that power alone means nothing. Caparossi is a 3 times world champion and he couldn´t beat Rossi on the Duc. Melandri a 1 time W/C and neither could he. Dito Hayden.
When he rode the Honda, Stoner simply didn´t get on with the Michelin front tyre, which resulted ih him crashing a bit to often. Also, don´t forget he was a rookie on a customer Honda, but still managed to put the bike on pole in his very first GP in the big class. If that failed to impress you, then nothing will.

Edited by Risil, 30 December 2009 - 16:31.

I"m suprised Lance Armstrong is very low too, I'd put him a bit higher in the list imo. Tiger woods probably dropped down alot because of his cheating

Edited by ZenSpeed, 30 December 2009 - 19:40.

Approachable, maybe. With no arrogance? Disputable. I have always found him extremely arrogant.

In contrast to the Americans we do not ignore that he has to be called Epo Lance as they found Epo in his 99' drug test, after the French devepolped the new test. Game over Lance

What, no Zidane?

As far as i am concerned, Roger Federer is the best of the decade. Besides, he is considered the best tennis player ever by the best tennis players ever... Laver, Samparas, Agassi, Borg, McEnroe, and so on...

What's not to believe in with Bolt.... its just he's the first 6ft + guy to figure out how to make his body work for him over 100m. When the other tall guys copy his technique what he had done will seem normal.

Also he lives and trains in Jamaica ...not exactly a place known for developing hi-tech undetectable steroids.

Kobe grew up in Italy for a bit and speaks Italian. That may have warmed the public to him.

Except that the so called evidence the French people found in a lab was rejected as evidence, it was impossible to proof that they were from Armstrong. Why didn't they find EPO during his 7 years of domination with the new tests if he was using it?

It was found in 2005, which was reported by L'Équipe. L'Équipe refers to an analysis of samples from 1999, which they could link to Armstrong. They were positive for erythropoietin, which could not be detected at that time (1999).

It was found in 2005, which was reported by L'Équipe. L'Équipe refers to an analysis of samples from 1999, which they could link to Armstrong. They were positive for erythropoietin, which could not be detected at that time (1999).

Edited by Simon Says, 30 December 2009 - 20:31.

The sample was Lance's, just they didn;t have the technology to detect it when they originally took it. Years later they were able to determine from the same sample that he cheated. But it was too late to do anything about it. It's like finding out today that Renault cheated in singapore, you can't take away the WDC title from Lewis. What's done is done, but Lance was artificially enhanced, that was obvious then, it's proven today

Edited by Simon Says, 30 December 2009 - 20:48.