Battle of the Sporting Heroes

[GIMH]

Haile Gebrselassie , van basten

 

[Tom Halsey]

Graf & Garrincha.

 

[Simon]

Battle #7
Haile Gebrselassie 7
Pirmin Zurbriggen 2
Steffi Graf 9

Battle #8
Garrincha 5
Marco Van Basten 10
Brett Kenny 2

 

[Simon]

Battle #9
David Campese (Australian) - Rugby Union

Honours
101 caps for Australia
Retired as the leading tryscorer in international Rugby
1991 World Cup winner
1991 World Cup player of the tournament and leading tryscorer
Played in three world cups
3 time Bledisloe cup winner
1998 Commonwealth Games Bronze medalist

vs

John Eales (Australian) - Rugby Union

Honours
2 time world cup winner
World cup winning captain 1999
86 caps for Australia
55 caps as Australian captain
112 games for Queensland
Captained four Bledisloe cup wins and two tri nations victories

vs

Wynton Rufer (New Zealand) - Football

Honours
174 career games for Werder Bremen
100 career games for Zurich
23 caps for New Zealand
3 time Oceania footballer of the year
Voted Oceania footballer of the century
1993 Bundesliga winner with Werder Bremen
1997 Budesliga 2 winner with Kaiserslautern
Member of NZ 1982 World Cup squad

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Battle #10

Colin Meads (New Zealand) - Rugby Union

Honours
55 Caps for New Zealand
Voted best NZ player of all time in 1999
Voted into International Rugby Hall of Fame
Voted in NZ Rugby Hall of Fame

vs

Bob Beamon (American) - Long Jump

Honours
l968 Olympic games gold medal
World record holder for 23 years
Inducted into National Track and field hall of fame
Inducted into United Stats Olympic Hall of fame

vs

Nadia Comaneci (Romanian) - Gymnastics

Honours
5 time Olympic Gold medalist
3 time Olympic Silver medalist
1 time Olympic Bronze medalist
2 time World Championship Gold Medalist
9 time European Championship Gold Medalist
First person to score perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history

 

[grecian]

Abstain


Bob Beamon, altitude but he sure jumped a long way.

 

[Blewy]

Eales & Comaneci

 

[BoyBrumby]

First one is a smeller. I think I have to go for Eales tho on the grounds that I'd pick him first if I were selecting a team. Not only the best line out operator I've ever seen, but a gun place kicker too. His pen to win the Bledisloe in Wellington was balls of steel time.

Meads in the second. Beamon's leap was phenomenal, but it's one moment versus a lifetime (almost literally) of quality. Gymnastics not a sport, obv.

 

[ripper868]

I HATE the randomiser....would take campo and Eales over anyone in this comp...Campo is a deadset genius on the wing and a true once in a generation occurence. Eales is a deadset legend who had everything that rugby could ask for, he had the skills, drive, determination, all while not being a **** and a genuine genetleman of the game, will always rememebr when he threatened to walk off the pitch vsFrance unless they stopped with the eye-gouging.
So as it is I'll go for Eales. was very tempted to negative Rufer though.

Meads in the other by quite a way.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Eales and Beamon

 

[Johnners]

Eales & Beamon

 

[duffer]

Eales and Comaneci

 

[luffy]

Campese

 

[biased indian]

Eales and Comaneci

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Rufer and Meads

 

[fredfertang]

Pass and Bob Beamon

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Eales
Meads

 

[NUFAN]

Too easy Campese only just over Eales as he's more the character and Nadia Comaneci.

 

[Jamee999]

NADIA

Simples.

 

[BoyBrumby]

If Comaneci beats Meads I think we can finally rule out God.

I refuse to believe a benign deity would suffer such a blasphemy on his earth.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

If Comaneci beats Meads I think we can finally rule out God.

I refuse to believe a benign deity would suffer such a blasphemy on his earth.

A heterosexual male god, at any rate