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Awesome to see this still going!
More please!
Steve Caballero, Jean-Michel Bayle, Kenny Roberts, Stu Thomsen.
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Ricky Carmichael
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Flair & Smokers special
French footballer
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Italian cyclist
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English cricket
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Infallible at his peak, unbeaten for 9 years, 9 months and 9 days, 122 races
Ed Moses = Awesome
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Jeremy McGrath, without and err, with, me......
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Some of you have funny ideas what a sporting legend is - lots of people who are/were quite good at their sport who didn't ever transcend it being pictured here.
I would add Kenny Stuart or Helen Diamantides or perhaps Yvette Hague as legends in minor sports
Not really that convinced by any of those - I mean if you're going to mention Yvette, then these two have a far greater claim, and I'd be surprised if more than one or two here could name them:
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Though since we're doing name dropping on this thread, my claim to fame is that I once finished 2nd behind Helen in a very long distance event (and got 1st male prize 😳 )
Here's my real contribution though - a bloke far more widely known than any of those British runners mentioned, and a real legend
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Just in case no-one knew who it was that I posted earlier....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles
He was never cautioned or sent off during his entire career, due to his philosophy of never kicking or intentionally hurting opposing players. Standing at 6 feet 2 inches, he was nicknamed Il Gigante Buono – The Gentle Giant.
In 1957 he joined the Italian club Juventus F.C. for a then-British-record £65,000 transfer fee. The transfer was notable as Charles became one of the first British professional players to be signed for an overseas team after John Fox Watson led the way moving from Fulham to Real Madrid in 1948. In his five years at Juventus he scored 93 goals in 155 matches, winning the scudetto (Italian league championship) three times, and the Italian Cup twice.
Charles with Sivori and Boniperti at Juve.
The respect Charles earned from Juventus fans was shown when, on the occasion of the club's centenary in 1997 they voted him to be the best-ever foreign player to play for their team.
In the foreword for Charles' autobiography, Sir Bobby Robson described him as "incomparable" and classed him among the all-time footballing greats such as Pelé, Diego Maradona and George Best. He also notes that Charles is the only footballing great to be world class in two very different positions.
Charles' accomplishments with Juventus led to him being voted 'the greatest foreign player ever in Serie A', ahead of Maradona, Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten and Zinedine Zidane – this in 1997, 34 years after his last appearance in the league. In 2001 he became the first non-Italian inducted to the Azzurri Hall of Fame.
A true legend and was a thoroughly decent bloke.
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Sport is not always about competing. It's about love of that sport. Murray Walker loves his motor sport far more than anyone I've ever seen.
LEGEND!
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I would add Kenny Stuart or Helen Diamantides or perhaps Yvette Hague as legends in minor sports
Kenny Stuart (amongst a small number of others) could be called the greatest fell runner of all time. He was unusual in that he made the move to the road and won the Edinburgh marathon and (IIRC without Google) ran 2:10 minutes for the distance.
Another fantastic career cut short through illness.
Since motorsport reared its ugly head and surfer turned it into the athletics thread for a page or two, it's gone a bit stale.
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love him or hate him you can deny it !
Its not exclusive DD!
And partly my fault for the athletics, bringing back very old memories to me.
Would somebody be so kind as to post a picture of....
Tony Hawk
(If you could make that picture one of him doing a nine, it would be even better)
The Hawk
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and his predecessor
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Skiing legend Glenn Plake
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Maybe not a legend in most peoples eyes. A great sportsman and was a genuinely nice guy too.
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loddrik - Member
Joe Montana, let's be honest, more people in the world follow the NFL than follow rugby.
Really?
What on earth was that from Carter? Did he have the cheek to claim the points?
He may become a legend but its too early yet.
Cant do the link thing but:
Michael johnson
Valerie Bortzof
Vasiliy Alekseyev
ps. if being a cock means you cant be a sporting legend then Johnny Dawes has to be ruled out.
I cant do the picture thing but:
Vaseli Alexiev
Michael Johnson
Ps if being a cock rules out being a legend then you can forget about Johnny Dawes.
I am not sure what my late father would have thought about that kick. He was a kicker for a first class side in his day, straight run and toe punt was his style as it was considered ungentlemanly to kick around the corner - mind you he was a prop.
my childhood hero:
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and him on a bike:
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How good is that first Daley T pic... 🙂
Steve Hislop, just for this:
1992 Senior TT.
I was lucky enough to watch from the Gooseneck, should really have been supporting Foggy as he was local to me, but Hislop deserved the win.
A very decent man and greatly missed.
As requested, Hawk 900 and not to be out done, Hoffman no-handed 900.
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Not looked at the thread, but for all time greats of british sport this man cannot be left out (just dont mention tax)
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won his first race at the age of 12 in 1948 and his last in 1994 aged 59. won the derby 9 times, champion jockey 11 times.
after 5 years without racing he made a comeback
and rode the winner of the richest mile race in the world within 10 days aged 55 with a display of timing, skill and no little power which was, is and always will be breath taking.
jamie bestwick - respek
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A mate of mine walked up to Lester Piggot at Aintree once and asked him for a tip (I lived a few 00 yds from Aintree racecourse so bunked in every year as a kid)
Q: "Hey Lester any tips?"
A: (In his deadpan way) "ye, do all your shag*** before your 50"
I kid you not!
Well I think elf has a point. A legend is someone that is know from anyone. You may don't give a toss about football or boxing, but you know names such as Pele or Mohammed ali, micheal jordan ayrton senna, michael schumacher and valentino rossi. Most of the other personna display on this thread don't fill the requirement for being a legend (mine for example is a perfect joe no-one, even though he is the most titled athlete on earth). See before he cheated against ireland, I was sure henry was retired.
my legends fit my definition of legend
Juan I disagree, I would suggest the right word to describe the sports people you mention is "icons".
Isn't icon a religious term?
icon as in i conned the taxman( Lester Piggot)
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Juan - yes but it has a secular meaning as well which I would loosely define in this context as someone whose image is representative of their sport (or in the case of some, probably more.)
Edric - very droll.
Phidippides.
End of thread.
Skiing legend Glenn Plake
Who?
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