no CHN & KOR at Rudi's era. no need to blame CHN, coz it's a politicial reason to prohibited CHN to participate. just for info, OG 92 was the first time for South Africa to play in OG, after 20 yrs of issolation from IOC, due to the apartheid act. IOC and any other sports federations was not fair to CHN & South Africa. IOC should banned USA also in OG 04, coz USA forced Iraq. if LD lived in Rudi's era, no doubt, HE CAN DO IT!
Well...look at all his posts....basically he just said that All chinese are the BEST!!! period...if LD said that..just take it...why we have to question if he said that sincerely, etc..if we do that..I guess we will not believe whoever say, right? I just do not think it is fair to accuse LD that..hm..it is so strange that you said that...blah..blah.....I will be in Macau soon..I will ask some chinese officials..
If Alan Kopp is of this era, he is likely to beat LD. If Yang Yang is of this era, LD will lose to him.
IF... a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you? lol... all of a sudden, a LD die-hard fan bashes comments here... why are you so fumed by other people's comments? are you new to this forum? i mean, why do you need to get mad over some old issues of who's the best badminton player... for many of the forumers, a threads like these are close to nonsense...
very nice one cooler! finally, this thread has become quiet (or maybe not that hot or loud)... wheew...
there is no right answer to this thread since 'best' is in the eyes of beholder. best talents, skills are mostly subjective. best record of tournament winnings can still be subjective because everybody see different importance attached to each tournament. best number of tournament success, i would say lin dan.
Agree with you best is in the eyes of the beholder...cannot compare past champions from different eras...but from a one game standpoint, JZH in my opinion, demonstrated the best performance I have ever seen...one game and he demonstrated all the technicals, smashes, deception, etc...playing as though he has another pair of eyes to keep track of where Joko was on the court. If not for one mistake, he would have white washed a world champion in the final of AE, never happens ever in history of AE. But if you talk about domination, Rudy gotta be the one, during his hey days, he was unbeatable, then there was no CHN, KOR was nowhere, all Rudy had to worry was Punch, Tan Aik Huang, Sven Pri, some guys from England and even Canada (Paulson) and those were his main opponents year in year out. Nowadays, with the army of CHN MS, INA, KOR, DEN, MAS and IND coming up, and 21-point unpredictable system, 8 AE would not occur again, at least not in my lifetime.
they aren't in the same generation. but recently, LD had already won it 3 times in the "FULL COMPETITION ERA".
Yes, that's right. a total of 26 titles; 24 titles from 24 official tourneys, the rest from unofficial tourneys (invitational World Cup). no one player can't achieve it, even the heroes from the past!
LD has not won Olympics yet..TH did.....even Asian games LD need to win Olympics, Asian games and Asian Championship..... TH needs to win All England....so who is better??? forget head to head...who collected more pretigious titles..One Olympic titles is more than WC or any SS series...
For sure, noone player / pair that never lost during his carrier. the duo G from CHN also ever lost. ZJH also ever lost. but how many times they can beat ZJH? otherwise, how many times ZJH beat them? u can count it.
it's simply,taufik has change the way people look at badminton.to make badminton like tennis we need more players like taufik,who really can entertaint the audience.neutral audience doesn't care what country you come from.taufik often " WOW" every eyes who watch him play,even if he lose... i really dont care. I love badminton and the way he play really make me satisfied. no wonder lin dan said "Taufik is the best Player In The World"
Some funny observations here: (1) LD never wins tournaments which are held every 4 years such as Olympic Games & Asian Games. (2) LD never wins tournaments which are held every 2 years such as World Championship. He only started winning after the WC has been changed to an annual event. （3） Obviously, TH knows when to win & win big. Note: Dong Jiong, u sound like 2cents!
so Ji XP > Xia, Dong J, Sun J, CH & LD??? if Anup Sridhar won the next year OG's gold, AS > LD? if Firdasari won, she is better than Xie XF, Ye ZY, Gong RN, Mia Audina & Camilla Martin? where is the logic? one OG's gold is enough to justify which one is better?
