IMAGINARY SUMMER OLYMPICS - Poll #31 - Gymnastics Artistic - Men's Parallel Bars; Wrestling Freestyle - Men's Super Heavyweight; Modern Pentathlon - Women's Individual; Fencing - Men's Individual Foil; Cycling Track - Men's Sprint

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Poll #31.

 

These are olympic champions in certain events.

Imagine that all these champions are on the top of their game at the very same moment in time.

Who would have won gold?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_gymnastics_(men)#Parallel_bars

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_freestyle_wrestling#Super_heavyweight

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_modern_pentathlon#Women's_individual

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_fencing_(men)#Foil,_individual

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_cycling_(men)#Sprint,_individual

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Not everyone knows much about all the sports & events, certainly I don't, so I am very interested in what people - who surely follow some sports more than me - think: who should win in this poll.

 

@thiago_simoes what you think about gymnastics here?

 

@MHSN any thoughts on wrestling, if you don't mind?

 

@phelps as a fencing fan - among 100+ other sports :-))) - is always here, thank you very much for that, always nice to read! what are your thoughts again? and maybe @Vektor would like to add his choice as well...  or all the others. I'm sorry if I forgot someone.

 

maybe we have someone who knows more about modern pentathlon here as well... :-)

 

waiting for your words of wisdom, all your votes and comments.

 

Bye!

 

[rafalgorka 1,517]

But don’t get me wrong - of course EVERYONE is invited to vote here!

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

A hard call... Parallel bars is my least favorite event in gymnastics. I'll go with Verniayev although he's not the most daring gymnast in the world. 

[Jinzha 702]

Difficult choice for the track cycling mens sprint between Hoy, Kenny and Lavreysen. The latter is super dominant at the moment, but the others have a greater legacy built up already.

[phelps 7,670]

Artistic Gymnastics, men's Parallel Bars...not an easy choice, because I don't follow the sport closely and because this is one of the events that I don't like more than others (only the Floor exercise is more boring to me)...

I go with  Li Xiaopeng, mainly because he's the only gymnast to win the event twice in this Century...

 

Wrestling, Freestyle, men's Superheavyweights...here I go with  Bruce Baumgartner because Taymazov is just a cheater, even if on the mat he looked really great and I used to be his fan...

 

Modern Pentathlon, women's Individual...no brainer,  Laura Asadauskaite is surely the strongest and most complete pentathlete among all those who had the privilege of winning an Olympig gold medal...

 

Fencing, men's Individual Foil...always considering that's almost impossible (and unfair) to compare such different ages, I have no doubt that  Nedo Nadi is on top of the list...

 

Cycling Track, men's Individual Sprint...trying not to be biased, I have to pick  Daniel Morelon, most likely the GOAT of this discipline...

mention of honor for the great Lutz Hesslich, but he has somehow to pay the prize for the system he grew up in...

for what concerns the modern specialists, I just can't pick them because they're only power, they can only put themselves in front of the race and push hard, they just can't show any trick, any "magic" on the track (I know it's mainly the modern rules' fault, but still)...

the last guy on that list that could show something unusual was Ryan Bailey, but frankly I've never liked the Australian (very dirty) style of racing and I have more than one concern on them being clean in the other sense (remember the Michelin man Steven Pate?)

[rafalgorka 1,517]

@phelps thanks for your comment! But your votes are not here yet.

[phelps 7,670]

5 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

@phelps thanks for your comment! But your votes are not here yet.

I just missed to click on "Vote!" 

 

I'm gonna fix it immediately...

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Voting in this one ends on Monday.

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Results

 

GYMNASTICS ARTISTIC - Men's Paralllel Bars

 

1. Li Xiaopeng CHN

2. Oleg Vernyayev UKR (T)

3. Sawao Kato JPN (T)

 

WRESTLING FREESTYLE - Men's Super Heavyweight

 

1. Bruce Baumgartner USA

2. Gable Steveson USA *

3. Komeil Ghasemi IRI

3. David Gobejishvili GEO

 

MODERN PENTATHLON - Women's Individual

 

1. Laura Asadauskaite LTU

2. Zsuzsanna Voros HUN (T)

3. Kate French GBR (T)

 

FENCING - Men's Individual Foil

 

1. Nedo Nadi ITA

2. Daniele Garozzo ITA (T)

3. Ramon Fonst CUB (T)

 

CYCLING TRACK - Men's Sprint

 

1. Jason Kenny GBR

2. Chris Hoy GBR

3. Harrie Lavreysen NED

 

Thanks for voting!