Your Favourite Sports Stars

[alternative]

Cricket - Ganguly, Tendulkar, Lara, Warne, McGrath, Klusner, Kallis, Flower twins and Waugh Twins..

Tennis - Sampres and pretty much all russian female tennis players..

AFL - Barry Hall, Maxfield, Lyold

NRL - Andrew Johns

Wrestling - Undertaker and Triple H

Golf - Tiger woods, Phil Mickelson

Rugby - John Eales

 

[benchmark00]

Cricket - Ganguly, Tendulkar, Lara, Warne, McGrath, Klusner, Kallis, Flower twins and Waugh Twins..

Tennis - Sampres and pretty much all russian female tennis players..

AFL - Barry Hall, Maxfield, Lyold

NRL - Andrew Johns

Wrestling - Undertaker and Triple H

Golf - Tiger woods, Phil Mickelson

Rugby - John Eales

Haha 'Lyold'

 

[alternative]

that was a typo mate.. lolz
its Lloyd

 

[Matteh]

no, and can u blame them?
hes had it go all his way for so many years its bordered on cheating...

I know, i'm anti him myself....but he still has a massive following...
and lets not forget how he won his first championship...by slamming into Damon Hill as he was about to lose it....Villeneuve was lucky that he wasn't slammed off either....

Personally Damon Hill (the ultimate underrated man of F1 in the 90s) and Alain Prost are my favourite drivers.....

Giles + Gough in cricket

Bergkamp, Wayne Corden, Liam Lawrence in football

 

[Langeveldt]

Updated

Cricket
Allan Donald
Boeta Dippenaar
Mark Boucher
Justin Kemp
Andrew Hall
Makhaya Ntini
Herschelle Gibbs
Andre Nel
Daren Ganga
Fidel Edwards
Michael Vaughan
Steve Harmison
Mark Vermeulen
Tyron Henderson
Nicky Boje
Robbie Frylinck
Vaughn van Jaarsveld
Charl Langeveldt

Badminton
Gail Emms

Tennis
Justine Henin-Hardenne
Wayne Black
Carla Black

Swimming
Ryk Neethling
Natalie du Toit

Motor Racing
Colin McRae
Mika Hakkinen
Steve Simpson
Richard Burns

WWE
Finlay
Eddie Guererro
John Cena

 

[steds]

Badminton
Gail Emms

Agreed


*Adds Emms and Myskina to list*

 

[steds]

I thought someone who likes Jamie Lyon would have a better sense of humour.

That's it. Trent Barrett's off my list.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Cricket

Steve Harmison
Andrew Flintoff
Simon Jones
Matthew Hoggard
Tino Best
Fidel Edwards
Mashrafe Mortaza
Andrew Strauss
Ed Joyce
Paul Collingwood
Bastiaan Zuiderent
Salman Butt

Speed skating

Eskil Ervik
<daylight>
Lasse Sætre
Enrico Fabris
Håvard Bøkko
Carl Verheijen
Bob de Jong
Shani Davis
Johan Röjler
Ivan Skobrev
Konrad Niedzwiedzki
Jochem Uytdehaage
Gerard van Velde
Even Wetten

Football

Runar Berg
Claus Lundekvam
Steven Gerrard
Timo Hildebrand
Solveig Gulbrandsen
Victoria Svensson

Handball

Karoline Dyhre Breivang
Kristian Kjelling
Preben Vildalen
Johnny Jensen
Nikola Karabatic

Swimming

Anna-Karin Kammerling
Stefan Nystrand

Ski jumping

Lars Bystøl
Adam Malysz
Andreas Küttel
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Bjørn Einar Romøren
Dmitrij Vassiljev
Anette Sagen
Tommy Ingebrigtsen

Cross country skiing

Jens Arne Svartedal
Jon Anders Gaustad
Anders Södergren
Tore Ruud Hofstad
Marit Bjørgen
Odd Bjørn Hjelmeset
Frode Estil
Anders Aukland
Stanislav Rezac
Lukas Bauer
Andrus Veerpalu
Jaak Mae
Kristin Størmer Steira
Britta Norgren

Athletics

Carolina Klüft

Snooker

Steve Davis
Jimmy White (or Brown?)
Jan Verhaas (what? Umpires can't be favourites?)
Mark Williams

Biathlon skiing

Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Frode Andresen
Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poiree
Carl Johan Bergman
Anna Carin Olofsson
Paavo Puurunen
Tomasz Sikora
Sven Fischer
Sergei Tchepikov

Table tennis

Jan Ove Waldner

Highly Norway- and Sweden-centric. What TV coverage you've got tends to shape you.

 

[Smudge]

Professional wrestlers are not sports stars.


Rugby union (current):
Josh Blackie
Josh Kronfeld
Joe Rokocoko (only in an All Black jersey)
James Ryan (I tipped him as an All Black in 2001)
Chris Latham
Juan Smith
Jerry Collins
Carl Hayman
Mat Rogers (just not against us)
Dan Carter
Chris Smylie

Cricket:
Shane Bond
Brendon McCullum
Ricky Ponting
Andrew Flintoff
Steve Harmison
Johan Van Der Wath
Shane Warne
Ross Taylor

Rugby league:
Mark Gasnier
Stacey Jones
Benji Marshall

Sprinting:
Mark Richardson

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Biathlon skiing

Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Frode Andresen
Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poiree
Carl Johan Bergman
Anna Carin Olofsson
Paavo Puurunen
Tomasz Sikora
Sven Fischer
Sergei Tchepikov

Didn't realise that seeing as your from Norway you might like biathlon, my favourite sport on a Saturday morning.

Cricket
Andrew Flintoff
Monty 'The Python' Panesar
Brain Lara
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Rahul Dravid
Harbhajan Singh
Piyush Chawla
Murali Kartik
Kumar Sangakkara
Muttiah Muralitharan
Mohammad Yosuuf
Danish Kaneria
Javed Omar
Mohammad Ashraful
Habibul Bashar
Mohammad Rafique
Mashrafe Mortaza
Saqibul Hasan
Mushfiqur Rahim

Football
James Beattie
Tim Cahill
Cafu (probably my all-time favourite)
John Terry
Cicinho (the new Cafu)
Juninho Pernambucano

Golf
Vijay Singh
Ernie Els

Biathlon
Sergei Tchepikov
Vladimir Dratchev
... all the Russians, Ukraininas, Belorussians

 

[luckyeddie]

I will assume WWF is popular in India?

Saving the tigers?

 

[steds]

Saving the tigers?

 

[aussie]

Cricket:

Andrew Flintoff
Steve Waugh
Shane Warne
Brett Lee
Matthew Hayden
Glenn McGrath
Adam Gilchrist
Kevin Pietersen
Sachin Tendulkar
Brain Lara
Shane Bond
Shaid Afridi
Lance Klusener
Virender Sehwag
Shoaib Akhtar

Football:

David Beckham
Frank Lampard
Steven Gerrard
Michael Owen
Wayne Rooney
Ruud Van Nistlerooy
Ronaldinho
Samuel Eto'o
Thierry Henry
Adriano
Pavel Nedved
Kaka
Gianluigi Buffon

Tennis:

Serena Williams - what a body
Venus Williams
Maria Sharapova
Jennifer Capriati

Track and Field:

Maurice Greene
Justin Gatlin
Dwayne Chaimbers
Michael Johnson
Asafa Powell
Ato Bolton

 

[steds]

Serena Williams - what a body

If you're into huge man-beasts that could crush you like a pea.

 

[aussie]

If you're into huge man-beasts that could crush you like a pea.

beast? , thats one fine black woman..

 

[Langeveldt]

Serena Williams - what a body

Yeah, I thought the same about this woman, until I opened my eyes

 

[aussie]

dont get you richard?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Must be my age but most of my heroes have retired now!

Anyway, notwithstanding that:

Cricket:

Ian Botham
Robin Smith
Waqar Younis
Graham Thorpe
Steve Waugh
Freddie

Football:

Alan Smith (the real one, not the thug who plays for ManUre)
David O'Leary (although his post-playing career has coloured this somewhat)
Tony Adams
Dennis Bergkamp
Ian Wright
Gary Lineker

Union:

Martin Johnson
Tim Rodber
Brian Moore
Will Greenwood
Joel Stransky
Michael Lynagh (officially the world's nicest Australian)

League:

Garry Schofield
Martin Offiah
Jason Smith
Colin Best
Paul Cooke

Others:

Dave Jessup (speedway)
Dave "Boy" Green (boxing)
Seb Coe (in my mind he died in a tragic accident circa about 1988)
John McEnroe
Marvin Hagler

 

[steds]

Paul Cooke

Oh dear. Anyone else, I could take. Horne, Brough, Briscoe, Thackray, any of the others. I have no beef with them. Anyone but that bloody ****** who goes around headbutting people and getting away with it. But it has to be him. Why, Brumby? Why?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Oh dear. Anyone else, I could take. Horne, Brough, Briscoe, Thackray, any of the others. I have no beef with them. Anyone but that bloody ****** who goes around headbutting people and getting away with it. But it has to be him. Why, Brumby? Why?

Mainly 'cos he scored the try that won us the Challenge Cup, which is the first silverware I remember!

He does have issues tho, court case pending & all that.