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The athlete of the decade is Usain Bolt. His personal best is 9.58!

i dont like the suggestions that you have
i dont even know who Marian Hossa is
im voting for albert pujols he has won 3 mvps and has been selected to the all star game 8 times

usain bolt may be the athlete of the olympics maybe not the decade

a-rod is tied with albert pujols

he was also selected athlete of the decade by espn

why is a rod there there are better choices in baseball but whatever the best athlete if the decade i think would be albert pujols. he played for nine or ten years and he hasnt batted below .314 and there still are other amazing stats too.

Ya Albert Pujols is probably the player of the decade.


For football I think it could be Troy Polamalu.

you dont have to do what i said and albert pujols maybe the baseball player of the decade but troy polumalu

I'd have to say Albert Pujols,just a great athlete and he has preatty good stats.

Usain Bolt. He killed the rest and basically took a break before the finish line.

Usain Bolt wasnt even the athlete of the olympics!Michael Phelps was.

I thought Tiger Woods was athlete of the decade, before we found out about his, ummm... you know.

Aside from the Bolt and Phelps I think Federer and Nadal deserve a mention they are both such dominant forces in tennis. If this thread was sportsman rather than athlete I would have mentioned Schumacher again just for sheer domination. eeerrrrrr.... who else :? James Cracknell for golds at Athens and Sydney as well as rowing the atlantic.

I can't do a thread like this without making a list of footballers which is hard because there aren't many that have performed consistently across the whole decade. Zidane and Henry were amazing at the start of the decade but haven't lasted; C. Ronaldo and Messi etc. just weren't around at the start of the decade. I think the people that have been great for a decade (bearing in mind I dind't start watching football till the 2005-06 season) are Gerrard, Giggs (begrudgingly), Casillas, Lampard. I'm sure their more but I'm being kinda anglo-centric here.

I'd say Usain Bolt. Beat the world record with his shoes untied. On a diet consisting solely of chicken nuggets.

dear god..... people plz

football: payten manning..... duhhh

baseball: pujols

basketbal: kobe. i hate him but give the man some respect hes FREAKING good
hockey: who the hell thinks hoosa is the best hockey player of the decade????? people patrick roy. r u stupid?

golf: tiger, need i say more?

boxing: manny pacquiao

MMA: urijah faber

track and field: usain bolt

swimming: michael phellps duh

gymnastics mens: yang wei

gymnastics girls: nastia lucan

soccer/futball: christiano reynaldo

thats all i really think of for now