History
ESPN
identified 10 skills that go into athleticism:
endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve,
durability, hand-eye coordination and analytic aptitude then
asked a panel of experts to assign a number from 1 to 10 to
the demands that 60 different sports makes of each of those
10 skills. By totaling and averaging the responses of the
panel ESPN arrived at a degree of difficulty number for all
60 sports on a 1 to 100 scale. That number places the difficulty
of performing each sport in context with the other sports
that were rated. The top 10 sports in terms of degree of difficulty
were determined to be: boxing, ice hockey, football, basketball,
wrestling, martial arts, tennis, gymnastics baseball and soccer.
The Rick Anderson Worlds Best Athlete International Skills
Competition Selection Committee then picked a skill from each
of the top 10 most difficult sports and created a decathlon
style multi-sport tournament whereby individuals compete in
all 10 events that represent 10 different skills that are
common to the performance of the 10 most difficult sports
in the world. Competitors are rated on a scale of 1 to 1000
for each event and the person who achieves the highest overall
point total is crowned the Worlds Best Athlete.
The
Worlds Best Athlete International Skills Competition was founded
by Rick Anderson and his son Christian-Tyler Anderson, as
a Canadian multi-sport tournament dedicated to the promotion
of sports throughout the world. The first tournament will
be held in the summer of 2005 in one of the most beautiful
places on earth, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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