Gotta the 2008 men's final at Wimbledon
Two absolute legends at their peak going at it. Without doubt the greatest sporting event I've ever seen
Me getting an erection after 13 pints of Guinness.
Perhaps might be a bit kneejerk, but the patriots superbowl 51 win was unbelievable
1985 world snooker final has to be up there.
18 million people watching well into the early hours.
Sadly there are no characters in the sport anymore!
Lipnitskia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUa4bjtmhY
This:
https://youtu.be/sKRh9U59zSk
That young American female swimmer at the Rio olympics, can't remember her name but she destroyed everything
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Yeah Wimbledon 2008. Unreal match.
Does witnessing the Haka count if it was the New Zealand Maoris and not the full New Zealand 15?
my golf was pretty good today
shot gross 70 (7 under handicap) with four birdies
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Europes comeback win in the Ryder Cup 2012 is up there with the best.
Leicester City last season winning the league.
The 2003 Rugby World Cup final was something else. I don't follow the sport at all but was aware that England were at their peak and that they were playing in Australia, where I'd been on a gap year and just got back from. Really wanted them to win, we ended up down the pub and it was full of regulars, between us we managed to figure out what was going on, really nail biting stuff at the end.
Might be a little bit historic for some you? But for me, you really can't beat the story of the Jamaican Bobsleigh team in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
The ex-sprinter who was told that he wasn't good enough. The embarrassment of qualifying for the finals, only to be disqualified before it had even began. Having their ban revoked, only to finish last in the first heat.
All contributed to why the story truly turns amazing though. The reason they were so poor is because they were trying to imitate other Olympians, they weren't being themselves. The turn around once they decided to Bobsleigh "Jamaican" was incredible.
I honestly thought that they would go on to break the world Bobsleigh record until that blade fell off.
Imagine it, you're on course for a surprise world record and the sled disintegrates beneath you at break neck speed. Nobody dies. It's the stuff films are made of.
I will never forget seeing them carry theat sled over the finish line to a standing ovation. Most inspirational moment of my life.
It's the stuff films are made of.
............
One was made of it. It was called Cool Runnings.
I suspect you already know that, mind.
Personally, the little known story of Gordan bombay is quite a turnaround.
After being pulled over for drunk driving, attorney Gordon Bombay is sentenced to community service, coaching hockey. There, he meets the "District 5" peewee hockey team, perennial losers who finish at the bottom of the league standings year after year. They are shut out every game and lose by at least five goals.
The players learn Bombay was once a player for the Hawks, an elite team in the same league, but left hockey because of the embarrassment that followed after a failed attempt at a penalty shot at the end of regulation, causing them to lose in overtime, costing them a peewee championship. With the help of Coach Bombay, and a desperately needed infusion of cash and equipment, the players learn the fundamentals of the sport. Soon enough, the District 5 team (now christened the "Ducks", after Bombay's employer, start winning games and manage to make the playoffs, reaching the finals and adding new player Adam Banks, an ex-Hawk who is a talented player and an asset for the Ducks. Bombay faces the Hawks, the team he grew up playing for, still led by Jack Reilly, the same coach Bombay played for. Fittingly, the Ducks win the title game on a penalty shot by Bombay's protégé, Charlie Conway.
Uplifting stuff.
comment by Baz tard (U19119)
posted 7 minutes ago
Personally, the little known story of Gordan bombay is quite a turnaround.
After being pulled over for drunk driving, attorney Gordon Bombay is sentenced to community service, coaching hockey. There, he meets the "District 5" peewee hockey team, perennial losers who finish at the bottom of the league standings year after year. They are shut out every game and lose by at least five goals.
The players learn Bombay was once a player for the Hawks, an elite team in the same league, but left hockey because of the embarrassment that followed after a failed attempt at a penalty shot at the end of regulation, causing them to lose in overtime, costing them a peewee championship. With the help of Coach Bombay, and a desperately needed infusion of cash and equipment, the players learn the fundamentals of the sport. Soon enough, the District 5 team (now christened the "Ducks", after Bombay's employer, start winning games and manage to make the playoffs, reaching the finals and adding new player Adam Banks, an ex-Hawk who is a talented player and an asset for the Ducks. Bombay faces the Hawks, the team he grew up playing for, still led by Jack Reilly, the same coach Bombay played for. Fittingly, the Ducks win the title game on a penalty shot by Bombay's protégé, Charlie Conway.
Uplifting stuff.
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Was that turned into that movie with Keanu Reaves in it?
Michael van Gerwen against Barney in the SF of the World Championship last year was incredible.
MvG averaged over 114. Barney averaged around 109.5 (one of the best ever averages in a major tournament) and got blown out 6-2.
might have been. Dont see any movies being made about the 2003 Ashes, that's how inspirational it was.
Mind, I don't think people want to go to the cinema for 762 days straight, so a real time movie of the Ashes probably wouldn't be a commercial success.,
Personally Ali beating Brian London. London was a bit of a toughie and no mean boxer, but Ali handled him like a baby.
On TV Ken Buchanan vs Duran (I think) jn New York, an exhibition of skill and guts, but still lost. As far as I'm concerned Buchanan was up there with the best British boxers.
Chelsea winning the CL in 2012.
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 22 seconds ago
Chelsea winning the CL in 2012.
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with a 'shoe in' manager & then doing jerry in their own back yard....I gotta agree
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posted on 7/3/17
Gotta the 2008 men's final at Wimbledon
Two absolute legends at their peak going at it. Without doubt the greatest sporting event I've ever seen
posted on 7/3/17
Me getting an erection after 13 pints of Guinness.
posted on 7/3/17
Perhaps might be a bit kneejerk, but the patriots superbowl 51 win was unbelievable
posted on 7/3/17
1985 world snooker final has to be up there.
18 million people watching well into the early hours.
Sadly there are no characters in the sport anymore!
posted on 7/3/17
Lipnitskia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUa4bjtmhY
posted on 7/3/17
This:
https://youtu.be/sKRh9U59zSk
posted on 7/3/17
That young American female swimmer at the Rio olympics, can't remember her name but she destroyed everything
posted on 7/3/17
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posted on 7/3/17
2005 ashes
posted on 7/3/17
Yeah Wimbledon 2008. Unreal match.
posted on 7/3/17
Does witnessing the Haka count if it was the New Zealand Maoris and not the full New Zealand 15?
posted on 7/3/17
my golf was pretty good today
shot gross 70 (7 under handicap) with four birdies
posted on 7/3/17
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posted on 7/3/17
Europes comeback win in the Ryder Cup 2012 is up there with the best.
Leicester City last season winning the league.
posted on 7/3/17
The 2003 Rugby World Cup final was something else. I don't follow the sport at all but was aware that England were at their peak and that they were playing in Australia, where I'd been on a gap year and just got back from. Really wanted them to win, we ended up down the pub and it was full of regulars, between us we managed to figure out what was going on, really nail biting stuff at the end.
posted on 7/3/17
Might be a little bit historic for some you? But for me, you really can't beat the story of the Jamaican Bobsleigh team in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
The ex-sprinter who was told that he wasn't good enough. The embarrassment of qualifying for the finals, only to be disqualified before it had even began. Having their ban revoked, only to finish last in the first heat.
All contributed to why the story truly turns amazing though. The reason they were so poor is because they were trying to imitate other Olympians, they weren't being themselves. The turn around once they decided to Bobsleigh "Jamaican" was incredible.
I honestly thought that they would go on to break the world Bobsleigh record until that blade fell off.
Imagine it, you're on course for a surprise world record and the sled disintegrates beneath you at break neck speed. Nobody dies. It's the stuff films are made of.
I will never forget seeing them carry theat sled over the finish line to a standing ovation. Most inspirational moment of my life.
posted on 7/3/17
Ron
posted on 7/3/17
It's the stuff films are made of.
............
One was made of it. It was called Cool Runnings.
I suspect you already know that, mind.
posted on 7/3/17
Personally, the little known story of Gordan bombay is quite a turnaround.
After being pulled over for drunk driving, attorney Gordon Bombay is sentenced to community service, coaching hockey. There, he meets the "District 5" peewee hockey team, perennial losers who finish at the bottom of the league standings year after year. They are shut out every game and lose by at least five goals.
The players learn Bombay was once a player for the Hawks, an elite team in the same league, but left hockey because of the embarrassment that followed after a failed attempt at a penalty shot at the end of regulation, causing them to lose in overtime, costing them a peewee championship. With the help of Coach Bombay, and a desperately needed infusion of cash and equipment, the players learn the fundamentals of the sport. Soon enough, the District 5 team (now christened the "Ducks", after Bombay's employer, start winning games and manage to make the playoffs, reaching the finals and adding new player Adam Banks, an ex-Hawk who is a talented player and an asset for the Ducks. Bombay faces the Hawks, the team he grew up playing for, still led by Jack Reilly, the same coach Bombay played for. Fittingly, the Ducks win the title game on a penalty shot by Bombay's protégé, Charlie Conway.
Uplifting stuff.
posted on 7/3/17
comment by Baz tard (U19119)
posted 7 minutes ago
Personally, the little known story of Gordan bombay is quite a turnaround.
After being pulled over for drunk driving, attorney Gordon Bombay is sentenced to community service, coaching hockey. There, he meets the "District 5" peewee hockey team, perennial losers who finish at the bottom of the league standings year after year. They are shut out every game and lose by at least five goals.
The players learn Bombay was once a player for the Hawks, an elite team in the same league, but left hockey because of the embarrassment that followed after a failed attempt at a penalty shot at the end of regulation, causing them to lose in overtime, costing them a peewee championship. With the help of Coach Bombay, and a desperately needed infusion of cash and equipment, the players learn the fundamentals of the sport. Soon enough, the District 5 team (now christened the "Ducks", after Bombay's employer, start winning games and manage to make the playoffs, reaching the finals and adding new player Adam Banks, an ex-Hawk who is a talented player and an asset for the Ducks. Bombay faces the Hawks, the team he grew up playing for, still led by Jack Reilly, the same coach Bombay played for. Fittingly, the Ducks win the title game on a penalty shot by Bombay's protégé, Charlie Conway.
Uplifting stuff.
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Was that turned into that movie with Keanu Reaves in it?
posted on 7/3/17
Michael van Gerwen against Barney in the SF of the World Championship last year was incredible.
MvG averaged over 114. Barney averaged around 109.5 (one of the best ever averages in a major tournament) and got blown out 6-2.
posted on 7/3/17
might have been. Dont see any movies being made about the 2003 Ashes, that's how inspirational it was.
Mind, I don't think people want to go to the cinema for 762 days straight, so a real time movie of the Ashes probably wouldn't be a commercial success.,
posted on 7/3/17
Personally Ali beating Brian London. London was a bit of a toughie and no mean boxer, but Ali handled him like a baby.
On TV Ken Buchanan vs Duran (I think) jn New York, an exhibition of skill and guts, but still lost. As far as I'm concerned Buchanan was up there with the best British boxers.
posted on 7/3/17
Chelsea winning the CL in 2012.
posted on 7/3/17
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 22 seconds ago
Chelsea winning the CL in 2012.
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with a 'shoe in' manager & then doing jerry in their own back yard....I gotta agree
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