On Oct 12, 6:10*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> On 10/12/2012 7:48 AM, Rupert wrote:
>
> > On Oct 12, 4:17 pm, "The Undead Edward M. Kennedy" > wrote:
> >> None of them, unfortunately, will actually admit to their existence on
> >> the usenet.
>
> >> --Tedward
>
> > It would be very easy for you to verify the existence of many world-
> > class vegan athletes if you wished to. Google is your friend.
>
> Ha ha ha ha ha! *It would be very easy for *you* simply to list the
> names of 50-100 of them, if there really were "quite a few" such who are
> *currently* "world-class" athletes who are also "vegan". *I *did*
> attempt to Google such a list, and as I already posted, a) most of them
> are not "vegan" but rather some degree of vegetarian, and b) most of
> them weren't even vegetarian during their years as active "world-class"
> athletes.
>
> Your claim is bullshit.

http://kaleuniversity.org/3888-famou...n-bodybuilders

"Dave Scott (six-time winner
of Hawaii's Ironman Triathlon), Sixto Linares (world record
holder for the 24-hour triathlon), Edwin Moses (400 meter hurdler
undefeated in international competition for eight straight years),
Paavo Nurmi (twenty world records and nine Olympic medals),
Andreas Cahling (1980 Mr. International title in body building), and
Ridgely Abele (U.S. Karate Association World Champion)." But
admittedly I'm not sure how many of these are vegan. They are
vegetarian.

You're just quibbling. You know that there have been plenty of world-
class vegan athletes. I've certainly named at least two.