Roger Kingdom vs Edwin Moses

So Brownie says Roger Kingdom was far superior...

Lets see, reasearching both:
Roger Kigdom - 110m hurdles
Edwin Moses - 400m Hurdles
Hmmm... This is like comparing Apples to Pears. Kind of the same, but not at all.

Both held world records
Both won 2 gold medals in Olympics (arguably, Edwin would have probably won a 3rd if the US hadn't boycotted 1980 Moscow, as he broke his own world record that same summer of 1980.) (He won bronze in 1988, so he has 3 to Kingdom's 2)

Roger broke the magical 13 sec barrier, but his world record only lasted 4 years. Roger's record was broken by Colin Jackson, and THAT record stood for 13 years.
Edwin ran a 47.02 world record breaking his own record a 3rd time. That record that stood for 12 years. (Incidentally, that's the time on my autograph)

Edwin ran and WON, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO consecutive races during an almost TEN year streak.
Roger Kingdom... not so much.



More about my idol childhood idol I got to meet... (from wikipedia)
"His trademark technique was to take 13 steps between all the hurdles (or even 12 between some hurdles), pulling away in the second half of the race as his rivals changed stride pattern. That summer, he qualified for the US team for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Though it was his first international meet, Moses won the gold medal and set a world record of 47.64 seconds.

After breaking his own world record the following year, Moses lost to Germany's Harald Schmid on 26 August 1977 in Berlin, his fourth defeat in the 400-meter hurdles. Beginning the next week, when he beat Schmid by 15 meters in Düsseldorf, Moses did not lose another race for nine years, nine months and nine days.

By the time American Danny Harris beat Moses in Madrid on June 4, 1987, Moses had won 122 consecutive races (107 of those were finals), set the world record two more times, won three World Cup titles, won two World Championships, and earned his second Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles, where he was selected to take the Olympic Oath. After losing to Harris, he won 10 more races in a row, then finished third in the final 400-meter race of his career at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. "

Furthermore, Mr Brownie, a topic dear to your heart is doping in sports. Check out what Edwin has been up to.
"As a sports administrator, Moses is best known for his skillful and courageous directives in the development of policies against the use of performance-enhancing drugs. He recognized the disastrous effects that rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes could cast upon the sport of track and field. He also feared that continued, unchecked steroid abuse would eventually dismantle the fabric of international sports. In 1983, Moses decided to make the first major public challenge in the assault against performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Moses and other dedicated track and field athletes became pioneers in the development, administration, and implementation of the sports world's most stringent random in-competition drug testing systems.

Between 1983 and 1989, as an athlete member of The Athletics Congress, Edwin continually monitored the progress and the results of the in-competition random testing program. Although immersed in both national and international sports committee work by 1986, he found time to prepare himself for a bronze medal performance at the 1988 Seoul, Korea, Olympic Games.

In December 1988, convinced that a small minority of athletes had developed sophisticated methods to escape normal in-competition testing procedures, Mr. Moses, armed with the support of athletes, physicians, and expert scientists worldwide, created and designed amateur sports' first random out-of-competition drug testing program.

With the assistance of some of the United States' best legal scholars, and overwhelming support from The Athletic Congress, Moses and his colleagues successfully legislated and began actual testing under the unprecedented program. Edwin successfully guided the new testing program through its infancy, and the program continues to operate successfully. Many believe the deterrent effect of the out-of-competition testing program has significantly contributed to a decrease in the use of steroids in sports.

As a result of his dedication to the concept of fair play and strict drug control, he was nominated to serve as a member of the prestigious International Olympic Committee Medical Commission chaired by Prince Alexandre de Merode of Belgium."

Roger Kingdom was good, but he was no Edwin Moses. You lose. However, I'll share my idol with you if you like. He's big enough for both of us.

P.S. Edwin also holds a bronze medal in Bobsledding from the World Championships in 1980.