Brinkley wins!

[Kev]

So. Canada basically has Bute and a bunch of Ice hockey, baseball, basketball, and Olympic field event winners on its roster. Ooh and the mighty wrestling...someone or other.

Still pretty meaningless, most of those sports have no meaning in the real world. No offense but to make a list of these kinds of people is a bit sad.

Sport is just an entertainment so based on that, nothing is important. However, the goal was to show Bilbo that we had top notch athletes in many fields areas and no matter what you might think about these sports, most of them are quite practiced around the globe. You know MIles, there are other sports than football that are widely practiced and when you can have top guys in so many disciplines, it should say something I could have add Judo legend Nicolas Gill to the list too.

and you failed miserably!

Having to claim Lennox Lewis is a real lowpoint. A Jamaican man, born in London who won a medal for Canada over 20 years ago and then fought for Britain everafter is your example of a current Canadian great.

Sorry but skaters don't really count. You are part of that Northern icebelt just below the Artic circle along with Iceland, Finland, Northern Russia etc, of course you will have good skaters and skiers etc. I imagine some of the world's greatest sledgers come from Canada too, but that only equates to Brits listing a string of snooker and darts playing greats to highlight our international sporting talent.

What I got from the names put forward so far, was that in your entire country's history you've had one guy who could run pretty fast.

I googled him. Unsurpsingly he was also born elsewhere and only moved to Canada at the age of 13. Oh, and his world record, was not 20, but 15 years ago.

Impressive.

I take it back, Belguim surpasses Canada. At least they have Brussells.