Top Tens - Track and Field

Sports Illustrated has come out with a top ten list for track and field. Tim Layden has formulated this. Layden makes the point that this is not just a list of the best, but those whose performances were do thrilling.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tim_layden/06/25/track.thrilllist/?eref=sihpT1

Here is the list:

1) Carl Lewis

2) Florence Griffith-Joyner

3) Bob Beamon

4) Sergey Bubka

5) Jesse Owens

6) Emil Zatopek

7) Usain Bolt

8) Marion Jones

9) Jan Zelezny

10) Steve Prefontaine

That is quite a list. I have to take exception to Marion Jones. Yes she was amazing to watch, which is what Leyden writes, but it was manufactured for the most part, and I have difficulty with cheaters in a top ten list. I even hold my breath over Usain Bolt. I am hoping it does not come out he also took drugs.

How you can have a list and not include Jackie Joyner-Kerse is just wrong to me. She was the greatest woman athlete of a generation if not of all time with her Heptathalon ability, she was the top of athleticism. I say take off Jones, and add Jackie.

Charlie