But what if you did judge NFL players and Olympic athletes only on athleticism? How about comparing vertical leaps among NFL players to Olympic high jumping? The lifts done by football players tend to be the more common strength-training lifts such as the dead lift and bench press. Cartoon: We've got competition from Sky TVRarely do NFL players run more than 40 yards at a time, which is partly why times for 40-yard dashes are such common descriptors of speed. Gatlin quickly learned that it takes more than just world-class speed to make it in the NFL.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 06, 2016 07:07 UTC