{"id":925569,"date":"2026-10-12T15:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925569\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:54:16","slug":"open-thread-october-12-2026-who-is-the-best-athlete-youve-seen-compete-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925569\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread, October 12, 2026: Who is the best athlete you\u2019ve seen compete in person?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s your open thread for Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I\u2019ll always be a GSP stan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s birthday today. That inspired my question today. My answer is probably either Roy Halliday (pictured up top) or Alan Shearer. As far as favorite athlete, then\u2019s Gianfranco Zola. As a Toronto sports fan, I also got to see the NBA champ Raptors plenty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Reaction videos are my one of my guilty pleasures. I\u2019ve watched a lot of them reacting to this Larry Bird compilation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I don\u2019t usually use this quiz format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s your open thread for Monday. I\u2019ll always be a GSP stan. It\u2019s Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s birthday today. That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,244365,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-925569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daily-mania","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}