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Rating the rankings | A column by Len Johnson
Regular readers will know that this column loves the annual rankings lists.
If there’s one thing better than watching a year’s athletics unfold around the world, it’s reading about how respected observers of the sport rate the way things have gone. Whether it is done by popular vote or detailed analysis and discussion by expert panels, there is a fascination in exercises which rank athletes in order of merit.
At which point you need to consider a corollary: if there’s a second thing better than watching a year’s athletics unfold it is to pick apart and discuss – did someone say argue about? – the lists produced by popular or expert deliberations.