when it comes to judging whether or not an athlete is the best most people would
say it's how many medals they've won or the records they've set well that can't
be far from the truth as the athletes on today's list are so talented and so devious
in their chosen sport that the rules have to be changed to accommodate their insane skills
Here are 8 Black Athletes so good they change the rules [Music]
number eight Surya Bonale
the Olympic Committee banned one of the most
amazing moves a skater can ever pull off the backflip
however Terry Kubicka was the first ever in the history of ice skating to do a backflip
but then the judges at the time decided it wasn't a real backflip because he landed
on both feet then came Surya Bonali a young beautiful black woman who grew up
watching Terry she decided Well if Terry landed on both feet I might just as well
pull it off with just a foot and so she did Impossible by performing the perfect backflip.
But before you get so excited for her in 1971 backflips were banned you see the
reason for the band was that skaters could not successfully land the flip on a foot and by all
means Surya knew the move was illegal but went for it anyway to prove a point [Music]
despite these amazing displays Surya never received gold
number 7 Shaquille O'Neal
shag is not only a gentle giant but one of the greatest basketball players of all time
Shaq was so good that the opposing teams had to develop strategies to neutralize him on
the courts Shaq was such an anomaly that even the NBA had to adjust the rules because of him
While others had broken backboards before Shaq managed to destroy the whole construction of
the basket twice you see in his prime Shaq was an absolute beast of a man coming in
at a whooping seven and one and weighed 324 pounds he was closer to the weight of a sumo
wrestler than any other baller out there it's no wonder that shark developed a reputation
for shattering and destroying back boards to Pieces eventually the NBA got so tired
of cleaning up broken shards of backboards so they had to implement a rule penalizing
teams that broke them number six Simone Biles
Simone biles is the most successful gymnast in
the world known for extreme precision and core strength
she is so good nope scrub that she is so perfect judges had to change the way they score certain
moves like the double-double Dismount which is now just known as the BILES move the reasoning
for awarding low scores for this move is because they were too dangerous and
complex their intention was to discourage other athletes from even giving it a try failure to
execute this move perfectly could result in an injury or even death as a result of
this decision many of Simone's moves had their points values lowered to put it simply Simon
was on a level judges believe other athletes might die by just trying to get to her level
number five Bob Gibson
Bob Gibson was a terrific MLB pitcher his talent is unquestionable as he won two World Series
while being an All-Star nine times however his most extraordinary moment came when he had a
23-9 overall record including a 15 straight game and what's more impressive was his 112
era a record that is practically impossible to break the MLB reacted immediately the
lowered the Mount Hight to only 10 inches from the previous 15. this wasn't all the
Strike Zone's height was also skilled down while Gibson was never explicitly named
the only player who caused these changes they are widely known as the Gibson Rules
Tiger Woods
At his prime Tyga was near Unstoppable he probably had arms made of steel as a single
swing so the ball flying several yards meanwhile other golfers had to train harder using clubs
with oversized heads to match or even approach the distance tiger was hitting for this reason
many courses across the world attempted to Tiger proof their fields and the idea was to make their
courses longer with a holes placed further apart so tiger wouldn't find it easy now whoever came
up with this idea must be a genius except the plan in itself was a dumb idea do you see the
problem? by making their calls tiger proof they ended up making them much harder for everyone else
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by many estimates Tiger single-handedly made golf harder sport to get into because now to
play professionally you have to be able to compete on larger courses thanks tiger
number three Serena Williams
throughout her career Serena battered criticism racism and grief he played while pregnant and
returned to the sport right after childbirth she changed the idea of how a tennis champion should
look dress and act tennis clothing was boring it didn't look like I'm here to kick ass it
was more of I'm here to get my ass whooped but Serena doesn't give a sh she once wore a black
catsuit which got a lot of people talking Serena is no chance the only woman to be extremely good
at tennis we have these other guys but nobody functionally changed women's tennis like she did
and nobody made the Next Generation believe they had a chance to be as great as Serena
number two Muhammad Ali
there has never been a boxer like Ali Ali became the first boxer ever to have
turned weigh-ins into a boxing spectacle where things could easily get off hand
before the advent of Ali athletes would just walk up the scales and off they
go but Ali turned this casual activity into a public spectacle where he would
insult opponents in order to shatter their confidence right before a fight
number one Pele
who was a betterfootballer Pele or Maradona well we don't have to fight over who the title
goes to but one thing is for sure if we're gonna name a footballer who has influenced
the game massively Pele is the man we won't go into stats here but for starters Pele was one
of the main reasons why football became sorry I mean soccer became a popular sport in the
USA in some countries they would want to touch him and some they wanted to kiss him in others
they even kissed the very ground he worked on while Pele retired after playing football
for 22 years his name became synonymous to football and became an iconic symbol among
black people all around the world now which of these people is your favorite athlete of
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