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Boardsies decide: Best sporting moments (nominations closed, knockout ongoing)

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    #62
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Green&Red wrote:
    Guys sorry for the delay in this, a very pressing game of WW had to go ahead and distracted me

    Oops :P


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    #63
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    So first to 7 votes, I'll try and get through as many as I can in the next hour

    Reason to go with vote please


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    #64
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Wimbledon 1998 Jana Novotna v Nathalie Tauziat



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    Sonia O'Sullivan Sydney Olympics




    No contest for me here, Sonia finally fulfilling her Olympic dream, probably the second greatest sports person of all time from Ireland


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    #65
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Sonia for me too. I'm too young to remember the Wimbledon above tbh but for me Sonia at the Olympics trumps it anyways. I remember precisely where I was watching it to this day.


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    #66
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,280 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Sonia, tennis barely registers with me when it comes to sport so I wouldn't know a good tennis match from a bad one.


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    #67
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Zaph wrote: »
    Sonia, tennis barely registers with me when it comes to sport so I wouldn't know a good tennis match from a bad one.

    You're gonna love my submissions so :P


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    #68
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Zaph wrote: »
    Sonia, tennis barely registers with me when it comes to sport so I wouldn't know a good tennis match from a bad one.

    When it comes to tennis probably the only thing I'd vote for is the final between Nadal and Federer tbh. Fantastic match


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    #69
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Sonia, a magnificent athlete, robbed by the chinese at her pomp, delighted to see her finally get a medal
    Zabo always looked like a clean athlete too


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    #70
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,280 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    quickbeam wrote: »
    You're gonna love my submissions so :P

    Will I just register my vote against them all now to save time? :D


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    #71
    Barney92
    Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Barney92


    I too am going to go for Sonia. I know she didn't win but I wouldn't have Novotná's win anywhere near one of my top moments in tennis let alone all of sport.


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    #72
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Zaph wrote: »
    Will I just register my vote against them all now to save time? :D

    You may. I don’t expect any of them to go through to the next round.


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    #73
    MrKingsley
    Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    Sonia for me. Agree with Barney that there would be plenty of wimbledon (let alone tennis moments ahead of Novotna for me). I remember watching the O'Sullivan race in the library in school. That memory will stay with me forever.


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    #74
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,304 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Sonia - Absolute no-brainer. It's insulting a reason even needs to be given but one of our finest ever sportspeople finally gaining an Olympic medal can't go out in first round


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    #75
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,716 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Oh, missed this starting...!

    Sorry to whoever nominated it but I don't remember anything particularly remarkable about Novotna's win, and I do like the tennis. So Sonia for me too


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    #76
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    Oh, missed this starting...!

    Sorry to whoever nominated it but I don't remember anything particularly remarkable about Novotna's win, and I do like the tennis. So Sonia for me too

    It was special because she'd lost several finals before, and got so close each time and then became emotional when interviewed on court afterwards. Having her finally win was lovely. And she died last year which I thought very sad. It was memorable to me because she was a nice, sweet player who got the win she deserved at last.


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    #77
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Sorry guys, missed that we had hit 7-1

    So Sonia is through to round 2

    Hopefully the rest don't take as long


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    #78
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Next up is two tennis matches


    Boris Becker's first Wimbledon win



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    ivanisevic winning Wimbledon 2001, one of the great underdog stories



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    #79
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Abstaining here.

    Neither are particularly memorable to me tbh


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    #80
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Two choices that would beat a lot for me, I was a massive Becker fan as a kid while my brother liked Edberg, loved his style of play

    I remember the Ivanisevic final, he was a great champion, he gets my vote


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    #81
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Sorry guys just noticed this had commenced as well. Of the two Becker's is the only one I can remember at all so would have to go for it.


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    #82
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Yay, so at least one of my options will be getting in to the next round after all. I'm going for the Goran win, as more memorable to me.


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    #83
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,280 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Also abstaining, didn't see either


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    #84
    MrKingsley
    Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    Oh it is Ivanisevic for me comfortably. One of my nominations.

    3 times a losing finalist. Only got a wild card entry because they were doing a celebration that same year of all the winners and multiple losers in finals.

    Final played over two days. Finished on the monday. Lost numerous match points.

    I get goosebumps when I see that back.

    A more popular winner at that time (other than henman) would have been tough to find.


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    #85
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    MrKingsley wrote: »
    Oh it is Ivanisevic for me comfortably. One of my nominations.

    3 times a losing finalist. Only got a wild card entry because they were doing a celebration that same year of all the winners and multiple losers in finals.

    Final played over two days. Finished on the monday. Lost numerous match points.

    I get goosebumps when I see that back.

    A more popular winner at that time (other than henman) would have been tough to find.

    Not the only one to nominate it then? Cool! Yeah. I was happy for Goran, but I was also gutted for Rafter. I'd have been delighted with either of them winning actually, but it was a superb game and I was tenterhooks right to the end.


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    #86
    MrKingsley
    Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    Im actually welling up watching those last couple of games.

    I had nothing against rafter but I loved Goran so much when I started really following tennis in the mid 90s


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    #87
    Barney92
    Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Barney92


    Another vote for Goran please. I nominated him too. Was so happy when he won, a cracking underdog tale.


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    #88
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,304 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Ivanisevic for me. I remember watching on the Sunday and then following on radio in work the next day. Marathon final. Too young for the other one.


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    #89
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    5-1

    Anything we can do to get this going


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    #90
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,716 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Green&Red wrote: »
    5-1

    Anything we can do to get this going

    I vote Ivanisevic

    I'd been holding back as I don't remember Becker's win, and I know it was massive, but I remember loving Goran winning (even though the tennis itself was a little one dimensional)


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    #91
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    *Shrugs*

    Changing from abstaining to Ivanisevic just to progress this to the next match.


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