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Eight of Australia's biggest sporting heroes go head-to-head in Rexona Australia's Greatest Athlete

They basically go through challenges like Cricket hitting, driving in Golf, Chipping in Golf, 40 metre beach sprint, mini Ironman challenge, basketball etc

Greatest Athelete site

Who's in it?

Billy Slater - Rugby League
Andrew Symonds - Cricket
Ky Hurst - Ironman
Lote Tuqiri - Rugby Union
Jamie Whincup - V8 Supercars
Joel Griffths - Soccer
Steve Hooker - Atheletics
Brett Deledio - AFL

Details are on the website for when the next show is on including videos of previous episodes (most shows need to do this!)

Its been pretty interesting and fun I think, some fun moments include Joel Griffths effort in the golf driving challenge (worth watching i think!)

The AFL and league guys would pwn them as an allround athlete.

yer, ive been watching this;

caught it by accident, but im pretty interested to see who is gonna win

obviosuly soccer and ironman are for uncos, coz they arent in the hunt

should be a good battle between hooker and slater;

whincup did suprisingly well early!

billy would probably be the fastest runner there, and probably most agile

pole volter != all round athlete

Yeah, my money would be on Slater with Deledio not far behind.

Its terrible.
Not as bad as Monster House.

Hmm.. interesting that golf is included. It's definitely more about individual skill, technique and practice than your athleticism.

What i mean is if you were looking at say the subset of soccer players... you would expect to see the majority of players have similar skill levels in things like basketball, swimming, running, etc. With golf i think the results would be really random and erratic since it basically would come down to how much golf the individual has played.

This sounds pretty good.

Related (if you haven't seen it already);
http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html

last edited by Phooks at 23:20:55 24/Feb/09

I have enjoyed the show so far and primarily because all the guys seem to be just having fun with it and not taking it to seriously. I'd have to say Slatter is a pretty unbackable favourite to win and one of those kinds of guys that can pretty much turn his hand to anything, just an all round good sportsman.

Jamie Whincup has been a suprise packet and fun to watch. I have also really enjoyed seeing the friendly banter between the guys like when whats his name tossed a banana at Roy while he was in the nets for the cricket challenge.

hahaha v8 supercar driver... no chance

nah, hes not, but he did suprisingly well

he whipped a heap of them in the ironman challenge (only beaten by ky hurst and billy slater)

i think he won the golf challenge also:

and hooker is fast and strong and doing consistantly well;

slater is miles in front, hooker is the only one that will catch him

although hes not much of a driver, the weekend just past they did the v8 buggies challenge, that was pretty awesome

and the 40m beach sprint, which slater won by a tiny amount (over hooker)

i'd put my money on ky hurst as best all around
wouldn't be too often you'd see slater swimming 4k's

ky hurst is miles behind:

hes been useless at everything except for ironman (which won on the swimming leg) and he got second in the v8 buggy

Symonds will win.

symonds is also miles behind;
but he did win the cricket challenge with 6 x 6s (it didnt look too hard to do)

symonds = slow runner and can barely swim

wasnt much of a driver either;

symonds is also miles behind;
but he did win the cricket challenge with 6 x 6s (it didnt look too hard to do)

symonds = slow runner and can barely swim

wasnt much of a driver either;

He'll hit the lead with the fishing challenge for sure...

Personally I'd like to see the Rexona Greatest Mathlete Australia

Also, where's Trog for the thread topic typown?

No cycling, no skiing, no ice-hockey, no basketball, no discus, no archery, no rings.
Games seem to mostly consist of those where large burly men can grab each other and wrestle each other to the ground.

Edit: Sorry, I lie - basketball is in there.

last edited by Raven at 13:30:58 25/Feb/09

Games seem to mostly consist of those where large burly men can grab each other and wrestle each other to the ground.

Yeah :/... because that describes the challenged they've done eg golf, cricket, iron men and race car driving to name only a few :/

haha

haha wtf Raven?

Have you guys seen that they've got all the episodes to watch in HD on the site?

http://www.greatestathlete.com.au/

A tone of funny pics from the show here too http://www.flickr.com/photos/rexonamen/

Go Slater!

good work raven

Billy Slater - Rugby League
...
Ky Hurst - Ironman
Lote Tuqiri - Rugby Union
...
Joel Griffths - Soccer
...
Brett Deledio - AFL

Do I need to spell it out to you?

People aren't interested in girls sports like cycling and ice hockey.

no discus, no archery, no rings

Seriously? Puh-lease.

what is the point of having an greatest australian athlete competition in sports that only 0.01% of australians do like archery?

well f*** it while we are at it, why aren't they doing an american football challenge, ice skating and bobsled?

last edited by paveway at 15:11:31 02/Mar/09

I agree with Paveway.

Slater is way out in front atm. I'll be surprised if anybody catches him.

I agree with Paveway. Slater is way out in front atm. I'll be surprised if anybody catches him.

Well, you called it - Billy won by an absolute mile. Whincup came second though, impressed the hell out of me... didn't expect him to keep it up the whole way through. Show gave an addy for s2 news and stuff... hopefully they let us have some input as to who is in and what they do - http://www.facebook.com/rexonamen

I want shotput.

I hope Billy can make it back next year to defend his title. Some of the others can say at home, like Joel Griffiths, he can definitely stay at home.

last edited by Triamks at 22:01:16 22/Mar/09

when was the final ep on?

i went to watch it saturday arvo and funniest home video was on :(

thanks heaps for the spoiler warning ragg

You can watch full episode on the official website which really helps if you missed an episode.

They also reply on Nine HD on Wednesday nights at 10:30pm.

Good series I really enjoyed it, symonds and his s*** stirring is hella funny no wonder he gets into so much trouble.

Go whincupp coming second, shows that he obviously is someone who is obviously realy competetive, and that It must be damm hard driving a v8 supercar, especialy on the big races. I think most people wouldnt be able to handle doing an endurance race, like the clipsal 500 over the weakend.

oh the manfest got spoiled!