Great sporting moments: heroism & tragedy (Contains graphic images)*Don't quote pics*

homer simpson

Thomas Maguire was a very well known figure in rallying circles. Everyone he met seemed to like him / think he was great craic.

He sadly died on the 19th of June 2010 competing on the Knockalla stage (he had always said it was his favourite stage) during the Donegal rally, when the car he was navigating in crashed at a high speed and rolled down a steep hill after hitting a banking.

Took this photo myself just at the start of that fatal stage...



And as this is a photo thread I'll only link this tribute video that the flying finn guys done... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxcUfaEwA18

MrJoeSoap

"Joey" - William Joseph Dunlop. The king of the mountain, and a humble, modest and charitable man while he did it.


"His Airness" - Michael Jordan. A great example of a good team being made a great team by one individual.


"The Great One" - Wayne Gretzky. The list of records that one man could hold in a team sport is quite unbelievable.


"Sheff" - Henry Shefflin. To have achieved what he has despite having had cruciate injuries to both knee's is nothing short of miraculous. The best the sport has ever seen.


"The People's Champion" - Muhammad Ali. One of the greatest characters of the modern era.


"Seve" - Severiano Ballesteros. Five time major winner and sadly missed.


"Mr. Indestructible" - Jim Stynes. The greatest footy story ever seen. Possibly the most inspirational person going, his documentary is a must-see.


"Senna" - Ayrton Senna. The best, at a time when the sport was at it's best. I was only 9 when he died but was a big F1 fan at the time and will never forget that day. RIP.

macfhinn

roashter

Brian Lohan


Dara O'Se


Meath v Mayo 1996

Pherekydes

In memory of one of soccer's true greats, Socrates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnoz4NuYMU8

DDC1990

roashter wrote: »

Dara O'Se Tommy Griffin

Great pic

Tinie

Not a sporting moment as such, but a stunning baseball photo none the less



Click here for full res photo

Rud

Tinie wrote: »

Not a sporting moment as such, but a stunning baseball photo none the less


Click here for full res photo

Excellent shot.What stadium is this?

Tinie

Rud wrote: »

Excellent shot.What stadium is this?

Its Miller Park in Wisconsin.

MoyVilla9

Rud wrote: »

Excellent shot.What stadium is this?

Pretty sure that's Chase Field.

MoyVilla9

Tinie wrote: »

Its Miller Park in Wisconsin.

Ah, it is.

Jopari87

The Busby Babes last game together



Less than 24 hours later

StupidLikeAFox

Dermot Earley and Micko - 1998 final - deadly buzz altogether

cson

Tinie wrote: »

Its Miller Park in Wisconsin.

Was there for the Cubs v Brewers, absolutely incredible from the inside.

counterlock

Maurice Fitz last second point against Dublin in 2001. Took em 10 years to make it up to us



The Tuck rule, the call began a dynasty for the Patriots

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/williams-mecachrome_1999_-65.jpg
Frentzen wins in Monza to establish Jordan as genuine championship contenders.

Frank Spencer

[pedantic] That photo ain't against Dublin. [/pedantic]

Mars Bar

ColHol wrote: »

Dermot Earley and Micko - 1998 final - deadly buzz altogether

Looks like they are celebrating but they lost the Final to Galway.

PomBear

Mars Bar wrote: »

Looks like they are celebrating but they lost the Final to Galway.

Semi Final?

Also,

Celtic reach the UEFA cup final in Seville despite only having 20,000 tickets allocated to them, 100,000 celtic fans travel to Seville. They won the UEFA Fair Play award that year usually an award to players/whole teams....

Mars Bar

PomBear wrote: »

Semi Final?

Probably!

counterlock

Frank Spencer wrote: »

[pedantic] That photo ain't against Dublin. [/pedantic]

Thanks, I never realised Dublin didnt wear Blue and yellow [/Sarcasm]

sean1141

colin mcrae.. only ever seen him on stage once but he was some man. rip

bradolf pittler

woods during the last ryder cup,check out the guy in the right of the pic with the cigar.
and the hurricane.

StupidLikeAFox

Mars Bar wrote: »

Looks like they are celebrating but they lost the Final to Galway.

We are just very gracious losers! Just kidding, it was the Leinster final, first time to win it in 42 years

Dolph Starbeam

PomBear wrote: »

Semi Final?

Also,

Celtic reach the UEFA cup final in Seville despite only having 20,000 tickets allocated to them, 100,000 celtic fans travel to Seville. They won the UEFA Fair Play award that year usually an award to players/whole teams....

UEFA Fair Play award has been won by supporters a few times, including Irish Supporters in 1997.

PomBear

Mark! wrote: »

UEFA Fair Play award has been won by supporters a few times, including Irish Supporters in 1997.

Here's an award for you...

Dolph Starbeam

PomBear wrote: »

Here's an award for you...

Yeh oops I actually meant to post some of my favorite photos after that but must have got distracted and just posted what I did.

Anyways.

Iniesta vs Chelsea - Champions League Semi Final 2nd Leg -
With 90+3 on the clock and Chelsea unlucky not to have had 2 or 3 penalties in the game Iniesta pops up in the 93rd minute to make the score 1-1, Barca progressed due to the away goal rule, Barca would play Man Utd in Rome in the final and ran out 2-0 winners.



Iniesta's winner vs The Netherlands - WC Final 2010 at Soccer City, Johannesburg
This Time with 116 minutes on the clock Iniesta makes no mistake again.






Messi vs Manchester United - Champions League Final 2009
Messi answered all the critics with this goal, not only did the 70th minute goal seal the game it also proved that he could score against English opposition and that he could use his head.



Bobby Robson - Died at the age of 76 in 2009
He had managed Newcastle 1999-2004, he had a very successful career managing some of the biggest clubs in Europe including Barcelona, PSV and Porto, he was also manager of England from 1982-1990. A lovely photo and a great man.



and the rest.....

Nakamura vs Manchester United

Jordan 199

Michael Schumacher's F1 debut at Spa driving the Jordan 191. Qualified 7th

Dolph Starbeam

On the subject of Schumacher



"If you set your sights on something and really work hard at it, you’ll succeed. And before you know it, you’ll be drinking straight from magnums of champagne with your hero."

Jordan 199

1991 Mexican GP. Andrea DeCesaris pushes his Jordan across the start/finish line to finish 4th. After initially being disqualified for pushing his car, his 4th place finish was reinstated. DeCesaris scored 3 very valuable points for himself and the team.




Great days.

kincsem

foxyboxer

6th May 1954 - Roger Bannister breaks the sub 4 minute mile.

MrJoeSoap

Love how the guy on the line with the bell has a pipe in his mouth.

Jordan 199

Gerhard Berger driving for Ferrari at the San Marino GP in 1989. Gerhard's car suffered mechanical failure and at a speed of around 180mph, his car crashed into the wall at the Tamburello and it burst into flames.






It took 16 seconds for the marshalls to get to Gerhard's car, and a further 10 seconds to put out the fire.

Gerhard survived the crash with burns and broken ribs.

pippam

Mod Note: Not exactly what we're looking for in this thread. It's about historically great or significant sporting events/moments. Please PM me (Penn) if you have any queries about this.

PomBear

He's back....

StupidLikeAFox

PomBear wrote: »

He's back....
WWE picture

That was indeed a great sporting moment when the writers wrote The Rock back into the script :pac::pac::pac:

Duckworth_Luas

The 1919 American League champions, the Chicago White Sox.


Eight players, dubbed the "Black Sox", would later be accused of conspiring with gamblers to throw that years World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.


The White Sox would have to wait another 40 years to play in a world series, which the lost 4-2 against the now Los Angeles Dodgers in 1959.


It would take 46 more years for the White Sox to return to the World Series in 2005. On this occassion the White Sox swept the Heuston Astros 4-0 the win the World Series for the first time since 1917, an 88 year drought.

pippam

Ali lights the Olympic flame




At last he emerged from the background. A body weathered by Parkinson’s but the mind astute as ever. Shivering he lit the flame. No other sportsman in the history of sport had meant so much to so many as Muhammad Ali. For the dignity of the man was consummate – never relinquishing ideals for money or fame, Ali was the people’s champion – the underdog in sport and life. “They didn’t tell me who would light the flame, but when I saw it was you, I cried” said Bill Clinton. He wasn’t the only one.





Luz Long and Jesse Owens embrace in Berlin






In full view of the Fuhrer, a nineteen year old German athlete gave Jesse Owens some advice – ‘play it safe, make your mark several inches before the takeoff board and jump from there.’ Owens, the grandson of a slave and the son of a sharecropper took the advice, qualified for the finals and took his tally of gold medals to four. The first to congratulate him was Luz Long. “It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler… You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn’t be a plating on the twenty-four carat friendship that I felt for Luz Long at that moment,” he said, recounting his rendezvous with the blue eyed German but for all his heroics, Jesse had to take the freight elevator in the Waldorf Astoria to attend his own reception.

Duckworth_Luas

Lou Gehrig, "The Iron Horse", makes an emotional farewell to fans in Yankee Stadium 1939. Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis he would be dead within 2 years.




Such was the respect for Gehrig his position as Yankee captain was left vacant until Thurman Munson in 1976.



Considered by many to be the epitome of a Yankee player, Thurm himself died in a plane accident in 1979. His locker, Number 15, at Yankee Stadium was never used by anyone else.

jimjimjimmy

Porter intercepts Manning and scores a touchdown to seal the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl victory, Manning looks on hapless on the ground. Happiest sporting moment of my life.

DailyBlaa

Bob Champion winning the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti.



Bob was diagnosed with cancer a few years before was told he only had 8 months to live but he never gave in, Aldaniti suffered several bad leg injuries and looked like he would never reach his true potential. In both of them the will to win was found and is one of sports true success stories.

Ave Sodalis

Not sure if done but Hickstead was a 15 year old stallion ridden by Eric Lamaze who died in November after completing at the FEI World Cup qualifier. He was the most famous show-jumping horse and was the Shergar of the show-jumping world. It was a great loss to the equestrian community.

Video Quite disturbing. Mods, feel free to remove if inappropriate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoL5b-KJUvo

Duckworth_Luas

The Long Count.

Jack Dempsey floors the champ Gene Tunney in round 7 at Soldier Field, Chicago in 1927. Mistakenly, Dempsey fails to stand at a neutral corner. The ref does not start to count Tunney out until Dempsey complies with this new rule. The extra 5 seconds allows Tunney to regain his composure and eventually win on points.



It's hard to quantify today just how big a deal this was at the time and continued to be a source of argument for decades to come.

cocalolaman

Mark Webber's team radio after (finally) winning his first grand prix after so much bad luck throughout his career. Can't recall hearing a team radio this emotional.

And this image says a lot about Group B rallying.

It was fcuking mental.

jazzbo

Tetsuya Ota hard Ferrari crash. The guy survived the fiery wreckage, no thanks to the race marshals. A greater show of incompetence you will struggle to find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUFRpQ38NoQ

cocalolaman

jazzbo wrote: »

Tetsuya Ota hard Ferrari crash. The guy survived the fiery wreckage, no thanks to the race marshals. A greater show of incompetence you will struggle to find.

Yeah I remember reading about that. Firstly, the safety car was going way to fast in those conditions and then suddenly slowed down which caused the drivers to skid off the track. Another driver pulled up and used his fire extinguisher before the marshals even got to the wreck. When the marshal pulled him out of the car and lay him on the ground, the melted helmet visor slumped down onto his face which caused severe burns. Also the marshals put the driver into a minivan rather than an ambulance. He sued the track and race organisers afterwards.

Clareman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOmUryJIP8U

Might seem a bit self serving to have a Clare provincial title BUT, the footballers winning in 92 led to an increase in focus for the hurlers which led to the Junior team to win in 93, which led to the seniors winning the Munster title in '95 which continued a transformation in hurling and helped the evolution in the game to where we are now.

macfhinn

The_Kew_Tour

A lovely story and somebody we can all learn from
http://www.thescore.ie/olympic-dreams-behan-has-done-it-the-hard-way-326311-Jan2012/


Video of his performance
http://thescore.thejournal.ie/making-history-gymnast-kieran-behan-qualifies-for-london-2012-325951-Jan2012/

ottostreet

Jochen Rindt. Won the F1 World Championship in 1970, despite being killed at Monza. He was so far ahead in the championship, that noone could overcome him by season end.

Rindt had shown up at the Italian GP, expecting to be driving Lotus's older (and Rindt's more favoured chassis) the Lotus 49. Instead, Colin Chapman had gone against Rindt's wishes and only brought the newer, less stable and refined Lotus 72. Chapman gave Rindt an ultimatum...drive the 72, or don't drive, and risk losing the championship. Rindt chose to drive, and in practise, under braking for the Parabolica, the car snapped left, head on into the barriers. Rindt had failed to secure himself properly and was thrown down into the car. He was given the last rites at the crash site, but it is unclear whether he died on impact or lying at trackside.

The man never got to see the trophy he would ultimately win, and his Finnish supermodel wife Nina would never marry again, saying that no man could ever replace him.