Greatest ever British sporting performance...

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  1. shenk1

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    Yep....also 10 time English champion and 9 time English pairs champ ;)
     
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    Torville relies on Dean and vice versa. By your own rules this is inadmissible
     
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    Stokes was far superior to Botham.
     
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    Lillee was years past his best in 1981 and the Aussie team was ravaged by the Packer years
     
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    basically. He was shït but he tried hard.
     
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    Disagree. Both British. Both "sporting" . Both needing nothing else beyond themselves to excel. Didn't say it needed to be by an individual.
     
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    Apart from ice, music, skates, Lycra, new teeth and shït hair.

    phil Taylor. Every one of 16 world titles.
     
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    Now you're down to opinion.

    I happen to think yours is wrong.
     
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    Isn’t the whole nature of sporting achievement to beat or outperform someone else thereby needing somebody else’s poorer performance by comparison?
     
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    Tyson Fury’s taking apart of Deontay Wilder in the USA.
     
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    He needed a decent set of darts. And someone to put up a nice dart friendly board at the right height with someone to shout the scores out. And make sure there wasn't a draft coming through.

    Even Jonathan Edwards needed a decent run up track, a board to lift him, and a nice arse friendly sand pit.
     
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    not sure if it counts as a 'sporting performance' but Rugby referee Nigel Owens regarded as the world's best. Think that having refereed 100 Internationals he has now retired ???
     
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    Thought you might come up with Colin Jackson

    Phenomenal athletic performance - great athlete.
     
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    I Wouldn’t say shït. Statistically, Mansell is the second-best British driver in F1 history behind Hamilton, without having the best car year on year.
    He also had to compete against Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.
    Possibly one of the most dull people out of the car, in it he was a mentalist!
     
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    yes, a great athlete - now having massive problms with knee/hip joints according to recent newspaper report.

    The problem with identifying recent great sportsmen/women is that we can't be sure how many have used drugs to enhance performance.
     
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    To the list above, I'd add:
    Beth Tweddle - World, European and Commonwealth champion and Olympic medalist in a sport we are traditionally useless at. (see also those that followed at mens and womens gymnastics).

    Dame Tami Gray-Thompson, Dame Sarah Storey, Mike Kenny, David Weir and Ellie Simmonds in the Paralympics and disabled sport.

    On another tangent, I'd also suggest the following - who didn't win but went far above and beyond:
    Daley Thompson - in 88 instead of 84. He might not have won, but he very nearly medaled being barely able to walk after his pole snapped on his first vault halfway through the second day and the team doctor begging him to retire. He came 4th missing out by 3.5 seconds over the 1500m.
    Derek Redmond in Barcelona 92. Tore his hamstring and hobbled around with the help of his dad to a standing ovation.
     
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    Lloyd Honeygan beat Don (the cobra) Curry who was 25 - 0 and the massive favourite and did it in the USA ..
    great fight and it wasn't luck, he dismantled Curry that day..
     
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    John H Stracey v Napoles too.

    But it relies on the other bloke helping out . Not allowed.
     
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    Geoff Hurst hat trick 1966 World Cup final
     
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    Is there a world championship for masturbation ?

    If so, surely Nigel Farage would be the undefeated champion for the last 20 years....then again if, like athletics used to be, there is a distinction between amateur and professional and the true champs were amateurs then he would be classed as a pro in every respect ;)
     
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