July 24, 200719 yr I know this will be subjective, but what would be harder to do? Beat Roger Federer in a tennis match Beat Wladimir Klitschko in a boxing match Beat Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France Beat Tiger Woods in 18 holes of golf Beat Jeff Gordon at Daytona Beat Joey Chestnut in a hot dog eating contest Beat Garry Kasparov in chess Beat Walter Ray Williams in bowling Beat Payton Manning in an accuracy contest at the pro bowl I think beating Roger Federer would be the toughest. I know for a fact I wouldnt even be able to get a point from him, unless he double faulted.
July 24, 200719 yr As sad as this is, probably the hot dog eating contest. I'm athletic enough that I could hopefully get something off of the other guys....not much but maybe something.
July 24, 200719 yr Author Actually, I think the chess one would be one of the toughest. You would be making your move and the guy would be thinking 10 moves ahead of you. In all the others, the weather or injury can play a factor. Those dont happen in chess.
July 24, 200719 yr Actually, I think the chess one would be one of the toughest. You would be making your move and the guy would be thinking 10 moves ahead of you. In all the others, the weather or injury can play a factor. Those dont happen in chess. You know I didn't even see chess on there at first. I take my vote back and say chess.
July 24, 200719 yr Gotta go with Lance Armstrong. The Tour de France is the longest event, the other ones you might have a chance to get lucky and score a few points, and at least finish. But the Tour De France? I don't think any of us could ride a bike for three weeks and thousands of miles.
July 24, 200719 yr Author Gotta go with Lance Armstrong. The Tour de France is the longest event, the other ones you might have a chance to get lucky and score a few points, and at least finish. But the Tour De France? I don't think any of us could ride a bike for three weeks and thousands of miles. I thought about picking that, but there are too many factors. Armstrongs bike could break, he could get a flat tire, crash, hit by a car, etc... However actually finishing the event would be the toughest. The boxing one would be tough, but there is a chance that I somehow get a lucky punch. I narrowed it down to chess and tennis. Then I realized that in the tennis match I would need to get lucky basically every point to win.
July 24, 200719 yr i doubt any one in these forums can beat any of them but i think all of those have several people who can beat them on a good day...whereas joey chesnut only has one real competitor
July 24, 200719 yr Considering you're talking about the whole Tour, you just can't beat Lance no matter how many times you try.
July 24, 200719 yr i would lose all of them but ill go with the tour as i would probably collapse going up the first mountain
July 24, 200719 yr I'd lose all of it.......the hotdog thing wouldn't work for me. I've never eaten more than 2 hotdogs in a day.
July 24, 200719 yr Author Can I use a bat in the boxing match? It would be easier to take the bat to Lance Armstrong.
July 24, 200719 yr The thing is, on all the other ones, there's something to bail you out. Federer could get a cramp, one lucky punch could end the boxing match, the hotdog guy could choke and so on and so on. With the Tour, there's no way any of us could ever finish it. When the event beats you, as well as your competition, that's it.
July 24, 200719 yr Actually the Tour would be one of the things on here I'd have the biggest (relative of course) chance with.
July 24, 200719 yr Author The thing is, on all the other ones, there's something to bail you out. Federer could get a cramp, one lucky punch could end the boxing match, the hotdog guy could choke and so on and so on. With the Tour, there's no way any of us could ever finish it. When the event beats you, as well as your competition, that's it. Yes, but you have to figure more can go wrong in the tour de france for lance armstrong than for any of the other events. He could cramp up, pop a tire, fall of a cliff, get hit by a car, slip in the rain, etc... Federer could get a cramp and probably still ace most people. The reason I picked tennis is even if you get two lucky back to back points, its still only 30-0 in 1 game. If you somehow get the remaining two points its only 1-0 in the set, best of 5 sets. So you would need to get lucky about 80 times. In some of the others, you would only need to get lucky once to win. Joey Chestnut would be in my top three. You figure there is only one other person in the world who even comes close to him. I believe he ate 18 hot dogs in the first 2 minutes. I think if you sat most of us down in an untimed event, we would have trouble eating 18. Then multiply that by 3 and you have his total. The chess event was #2 on my list. There really arent any outside factors or sports injuries that can happen in this senario. Kasparav is the same guy who beat the computer (that knew every move) in chess.
July 24, 200719 yr The thing is, on all the other ones, there's something to bail you out. Federer could get a cramp, one lucky punch could end the boxing match, the hotdog guy could choke and so on and so on. With the Tour, there's no way any of us could ever finish it. When the event beats you, as well as your competition, that's it. Yes, but you have to figure more can go wrong in the tour de france for lance armstrong than for any of the other events. He could cramp up, pop a tire, fall of a cliff, get hit by a car, slip in the rain, etc... Federer could get a cramp and probably still ace most people. The reason I picked tennis is even if you get two lucky back to back points, its still only 30-0 in 1 game. If you somehow get the remaining two points its only 1-0 in the set, best of 5 sets. So you would need to get lucky about 80 times. In some of the others, you would only need to get lucky once to win. Joey Chestnut would be in my top three. You figure there is only one other person in the world who even comes close to him. I believe he ate 18 hot dogs in the first 2 minutes. I think if you sat most of us down in an untimed event, we would have trouble eating 18. Then multiply that by 3 and you have his total. The chess event was #2 on my list. There really arent any outside factors or sports injuries that can happen in this senario. Kasparav is the same guy who beat the computer (that knew every move) in chess. Right, but who's to say that wouldn't happen to you either. I think winning any of these contests would be near impossible, but the tour is the only venue that fights back.
July 24, 200719 yr The thing is, on all the other ones, there's something to bail you out. Federer could get a cramp, one lucky punch could end the boxing match, the hotdog guy could choke and so on and so on. With the Tour, there's no way any of us could ever finish it. When the event beats you, as well as your competition, that's it. Yes, but you have to figure more can go wrong in the tour de france for lance armstrong than for any of the other events. He could cramp up, pop a tire, fall of a cliff, get hit by a car, slip in the rain, etc... Federer could get a cramp and probably still ace most people. The reason I picked tennis is even if you get two lucky back to back points, its still only 30-0 in 1 game. If you somehow get the remaining two points its only 1-0 in the set, best of 5 sets. So you would need to get lucky about 80 times. In some of the others, you would only need to get lucky once to win. Joey Chestnut would be in my top three. You figure there is only one other person in the world who even comes close to him. I believe he ate 18 hot dogs in the first 2 minutes. I think if you sat most of us down in an untimed event, we would have trouble eating 18. Then multiply that by 3 and you have his total. The chess event was #2 on my list. There really arent any outside factors or sports injuries that can happen in this senario. Kasparav is the same guy who beat the computer (that knew every move) in chess. Kasparav may suffer a stroke. Then you can school his vegetable ass.
July 24, 200719 yr either the eating contest or boxing but eating isn't really a sport. I think boxing just because Klitschko knows how to take punches so any punch you throw wont knock him down and If he hits you 3 times your gonna go down.
July 24, 200719 yr Actually the Tour would be one of the things on here I'd have the biggest (relative of course) chance with. Same. That's still the hardest.
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