Battle of the Sporting Heroes

[Uppercut]

Nominate Keith Wood and Roy Keane.

Second Maradona.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Nominate
Steve Davis
Os du Randt
Joost vd Westhuizen
Hicham el Guerrouj
Claudio Gentile
Carolina Klüft
Annika Sörenstam
Kenenisa Bekele
Cathy Freeman
Michael Phelps

Second
Bubka
Best (edit: see three posts down)
Agassi
Woods
Borg

 

[Son Of Coco]

Nominate:

Eddie the Eagle
Eric the Eel
Steven Bradbury

Second:

Cathy Freeman

 

[ripper868]

Nominate:
John Eales
Martin Johnson
Ben Tune
David Campese

Second:
Keith Wood
Joost van der Westhuizen

 

[vic_orthdox]

Nominate
Richard Fromberg
Daniel Kowalski
Bruce Bolden
Paul Trimboli
Steve Horvat
Macho Man Randy Savage
Vicky Wilson
Zoe Goss
Ian Baker-Finch
Skybeau

 

[The Sean]

Second:
Graf
Armstrong
Eales

Nominate:
Jim Richards
Jason Dunstall
Leigh Matthews
Pirmin Zurbriggen
Marco Van Basten

 

[Magrat Garlick]

replace Best seconding with Zurbriggen for me, please

 

[Johnners]

2nd Lowndes

 

[_Ed_]

Steven Bradbury

Seconded.

One of my all-time favourite sporting moments.

 

[biased indian]

Second
Eric the Eel

 

[Retox]

Sec:

Macho Man Randy Savage

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Seconded.

One of my all-time favourite sporting moments.

What made the moment is that he nearly died on the ice a few years prior.

 

[Johnners]

replace Best seconding with Zurbriggen for me, please

I had already seconded Agassi, so you could second both

 

[pasag]

Nominate:

Gary Ablett Snr
Wayne Carey
Matthew Richardson

Second

Nominate:

Shane Watson

 

[Uppercut]

What made the moment is that he nearly died on the ice a few years prior.

He'd actually had two horrific injuries i believe. One where he had his leg sliced by another skater and another where he'd broken his neck. On top of which, he was put out of a previous winter Olympics by being pushed over illegally.

On a similar note, i nominate Jimmy Glass.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Nominate:
Shane Watson

s'd

 

[Jamee999]

Second Martin Johnson.

Nominate Kevin Pietersen

 

[Tom Halsey]

Second Jimmy Glass.

 

[cover drive man]

Second.

Ali
Tiger Woods
Steve Davis.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Don't wanna be too much of a killjoy, but could we exclude pro wrestlers and obvious joke nominations like Eddie The Eagle, Eric The Eel and Diego The Fat Stumpy Argie Cheat, please?

Nomiate:

Ed Moses - won 122 consecutive 400m hurdle races between 1977-87
Ivan Mauger - 6 individual world speedway titles & 3 times runner-up
Sir Stephen Redgrave - Gold medals in 5 consecutive Olympics in an endurance sport
Gerd Muller - perfect and complete goalscoring machine; 68 goals for West Germany in 62 games.
Jahangir Khan - unbeaten over 555 (!!!) competitive squash games from 1981-86, 6 World Open & 10 British Open titles.