Random Acts of Thought

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The Thoughtful Ape is a primate who is honestly interested in understanding the world he lives in. He is particularly interested in cognitive biases and the limits of intuition. Like most of his species he is both vain and opinionated but is interested in understanding what is true despite these faults. The Thoughtfuls Ape's opinions change and evolve with time. What is posted here reflects his opinion at the date at which it was written.

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Seven straight Tour de France titles

Lance Armstrongs seven straight Tour De France titles have to go down among the alltime great athletic achievements... It started making me think of other great individual streaks that are comparable. Here are a few.

1) Joe Dimaggio (Baseball) His 56 game hitting streak of 1941 has to be the most amazing individuals streak in sports history. This is statistically SO amazing that math it remains a subject of discussion among math professors to this day

2) Wayne Gretsky Seven straight Scoring titles... eight straight Hart Ross (Hockeys version of the Most Valuable Player) titles between 1980-1987.

3) Don Budge. (Tennis) Winner of six consecutive Grand slam events between '37 and '38

3) Tiger Woods (Golf) Won all four of golfs majors in a row between 2000 and 2001, the only man to ever do this.

4) Barry Bonds. (Baseball) Three straight MVPS. No one else has won more than three over an entire career. He has six.

posted by thoughtfulape | 11:46 PM

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