The Friday Performance and Photography thread – A "1980s" edition

As above, really. Let’s see some sporting photography from that fine decade!

Thusly
Bosh

A time when aero was pretty much everything.

80’s you say?

The Great One…

HALL OF FAME by jimmyg352[/url], on Flickr

Got off to a great start…

Oh and this chap too…

The greatest decade for boxing

Hagler-Hearns ’87

Pryor-Arguello ’85

Tyson- Berbick ’86

Unfortunately this too. Was there a bigger sporting story in the 80s?

Graham Noyce

Windsurfing back then..

And the great Aus II winning the Americas Cup

Surely the golden age of BMXing

Fiola

Wilkerson

Unfortunately this too. Was there a bigger sporting story in the 80s?

And to think all 3 of them were juicing at some stage…

Still a defining moment for me, top of La Plange, 1987.

Welsh Genius

Mark Todd and Charisma, who won gold medals at Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988) Olympics.

Lets have some 80’s skateboarding eh? It doesn’t get more 80’s graphics than this

Gonzo Gonzales…

And a man who’s had a thing or two to do with churning out some half decent mountain bikes since

Roskopp, back in the day….

Cabalerro..

Euro, (late) 80’s all about…

Mmm Group B 🙂

Senna

Coe v Ovett

Kong

A lot of this…

Which usually led to this…

mrblobby – Member

Euro, (late) 80’s all about…

The awesome Jerry and Joe Show 😀

🙂

C is better than B

Binners how did you forget Hosoi??

😉

Sorry Binners I dont think you did 😳 last photo is him isnt it?

The long since debunked Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race..

I present to you Maiden skippered by Tracy Edwards, when the Girls finally got to take on the Bouys.. Mucho’s respecto’s

Forgot to add the name in, like the others pigface. What a dreadful faux par 😳

Never mind. We both knew who it is 🙂

And you’ll never, walk alone! Whaaaaeeeeeyyyyyyooooooo! 😀

Bikebouy one of those ladies was CTO at a company I worked at not long ago. Every bloody management speech seemed to come aroud to some sailing story 🙂

Ha!! Excellent.

Small world.