Thread: Your favourite moments in sporting history

1980 Olympics
US ice hockey team, comprised of amateurs and collegiates, beat the Soviet team, widely regarded as the best team in the world for the gold medal.



Awesome story. Awesome game.

I`ll not forget this one for a long time.

Great thread,

So many unbelievable moments in sport throughout the years, so will come back another time but this one sticks out for me as a teenager watching this.

One of my favourite ever players, the man was always a joy to watch.

Just watch the ball boy to the side of the goal during the replay thinking the ball was heading straight for him.

Wales playing England at Wembley losing 31-25 in the dying stages and then this happens...................

Ive been waiting an hoping that the Americans would join in this one, part of why I didnt post any American stuff. The ice hockey ones an absolute classic, David against Goliath.

We have to be very careful.

One wrong word and Lily will come storming in, hair alight, berating us for chest thumping.

Chose your words carefully. Carry on ...

1st lap of the 1993 F1 at Donington Park. Senna picked off just about every driver on the grid in the pouring rain. By race end nearly everyone was a lap down from Senna. Amazing show of skill! Possibly one of F1's greatest moments

Nadia Comeneci (1976 - Montreal) - Gymnast that rewrote the record books. She scored 7 perfect 10’s when everyone thought a perfect 10 was not possible. Yes, judging is subjective, but when all agree it was perfect, you end up with perfection - no questions asked. She did it 7 freaking times. The scoreboards were not equipped to show a perfect 10 since it had never been done before - so it showed up as 1.00. She was 14 years old!!

Jesse Owens. A great athlete and one that may have had the greatest impact of any.

5 in a row. Row, geddit?

Originally Posted by Norton

Jesse Owens. A great athlete and one that may have had the greatest impact of any.

Check the pole vaulter at 1min 46, hardcore sport.

Greatest piece of commentry ever!!!

Originally Posted by Mr Pot

Great night.

But let's not get carried away we only beat a Man United reserve/youth team.

Now we're talking!!

A truly amazing round of boxing that showed unbelievable courage and heart from Danny Williams. Sadly this was to leave him too many times later on in his career.

A fantastic era for Aussie motorsport fans , and the beginning of near total world domination by Aussies on two wheels.

AUSSIE WORLD CHAMPS.

500cc / Moto gP

Wayne Gardner ....1987

Michael Doohan ....1994....1995...1996...1997...1998

Casey Stoner .....2007 ...2009 ?

SBK

Troy Bayliss .... 2001 ...2006 ...2008

Troy Corser ....1996 ....2005...


Special mention to those Pesky Italians ...

Giacomo Agostini ...
500cc ...1966,67,68,69,70,71,72,75

Val Rossi. Moto gp ..2002,2003,2004,2005,2008


Tween the Aussies and the Iti's we pretty much got the sport sewn up.

Eric Moussambani

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eric Moussambani (born May 31, 1978) is a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea. Nicknamed "Eric The Eel" by the media after the name first appeared in an article by Craig Lord in The Times newspaper in London, Moussambani won brief international fame at the 2000 Summer Olympics when he swam his heat of the 100 m freestyle in 1:52.72 and won, because the two other competitors Karim Bare and Farkhod Oripov were disqualified for taking a false start. His time was more than twice that of his faster competitors, and outside even the 200 m world record. However he had set a new personal best and national record.

Career

Moussambani gained entry to the Olympics without meeting the minimum qualification requirements via a wildcard draw designed to encourage developing countries without expensive training facilities to participate. While Pieter van den Hoogenband set a world record of 47.84 seconds to win the gold medal, Moussambani splashed his way to the finish to the cheers of the crowd in slightly more than twice that time. "The last 15 meters were very difficult," Moussambani said.

Before coming to the Olympics, Moussambani had never seen a 50 m (160 ft) long Olympic-size swimming pool. He took up swimming only eight months before the Olympics and had practiced in a 20 m (66 ft) pool at a hotel in Malabo.

His performance generated spectator and media interest in the only other Equatorial Guinean swimmer at the Sydney Olympics, Paula Barila Bolopa, who competed in the women's 50 metres freestyle event. Barila struggled to finish the race with a time of 1:03.97, setting a record for the slowest time in Olympic history for that event, and in turn achieved minor celebrity status.
Moussambani was denied entry into the 2004 Olympic Games due to a visa bungle,[4] despite the vast improvement in his swimming over the previous four years, with his personal best down to under 57 seconds.He did not take part in the 2008 Summer Olympics.