Sunday, January 26, 2003

To my mind this is one of the sports stories of the year, and yet I haven't even seen it mentioned, let alone played up, on Sportscenter.

The key part of the story, to my mind, is that at the age of 46--the age when George Blanda retired, from placekicking, and everyone called him a timeless wonder--Martina Navratilova has not only won a Grand Slam tennis title but has completed a mind-boggling career Grand Slam. She has now won at least singles, doubles, and mixed doubles title at every Grand Slam tournament. She has won 57 overall slam titles, and she won her first one, the French mixed doubles, in 1974!!!!! Twenty-nine years later, she's a champion again, reminding us that she is the greatest female athlete--and possibly just the greatest athlete--of our lifetime.

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