Forgotten British Stars of Sport
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Barry Sheen
The sport of Speedway.
Sonny Pike
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Daley Thompson
Sonia Lannaman
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Tom Cribb0
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What was that bmx show he compared called?MrOneLung said:Andy Ruffell
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Jocky Wilson.0
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Andy Delort2
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Steve Ovett
Lester Piggott
Lloyd Honeyghan
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Derek Randall
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Keith Connor - Bronze in Triple Jump at LA Olympics '84.
Kathy ( Smallwood) Cook - Bronze in 400m at same Games.
2 of the GB athletes deservedly winning medals when the US dominated in their home country & without the Russians.1 -
Mary Peters.
Won the pentathlon gold, setting a world record at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. She suffered death threats on her return home to Northern Ireland, but stood firm against the bully boys. It was the only athletics gold that year and she also became the BBC sports personality of the year.
N.b. The heptathlon has been contested by female athletes since the early 1980s, when it replaced the pentathlon as the primary women's combined event contest (the javelin throw and 800 m were added). It was first contested at the Olympic level in the 1984 Summer Olympics.2 -
Steve Smith and his guaranteed bronze in the high jump1
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Mike Brearley
Peter Collins
Mike MacFarlane
Dave Boy Green
Buster Mottram
John Watson
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His autobiography is coming out soon!golfaddick said:Brian Jacks.
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Roger Jenkins former British 400m record holder, recent naughty boy in Barclays trial and Dr Gru lookylikey.0
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Roger F@!*ing Johnson1
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and held the British record for something like 300 years until, I think, Tomlinson broke it.Addick Addict said:
Davies. won the Olympic Long Jump Gold Medal.The_President said:Lynn someone - so forgotten ive forgotten what gender and event he or she were in
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"Battling" Barbara Buttrick
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Vinny Samways and Dave 'Boy' Green were hardly stars. Journeymen who got some headlines would be more accurate, I'd suggest.Bedsaddick said:Dave Boy Green
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Dave 'Boy' Green was a big star back in the day especially up this neck of the woods. I'll agree with you on Samways .AddicksAddict said:
Vinny Samways and Dave 'Boy' Green were hardly stars. Journeymen who got some headlines would be more accurate, I'd suggest.Bedsaddick said:Dave Boy Green
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Vinny Samways
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It's not a very good article, is it? There's no mention of his great-great nephew being on Charlton Life.micks1950 said:Alfred Shrubb (my great-great uncle)....
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I remember him well. He was good at European and Commonwealth level, gave Carlos Palomino a bit of a fright but came seriously unstuck against Sugar Ray Leonard (but then, who didn't?). I'd still struggle to call him a nationwide star, despite the affection in which he was held.Bedsaddick said:
Dave 'Boy' Green was a big star back in the day especially up this neck of the woods. I'll agree with you on Samways .AddicksAddict said:
Vinny Samways and Dave 'Boy' Green were hardly stars. Journeymen who got some headlines would be more accurate, I'd suggest.Bedsaddick said:Dave Boy Green
Dean Macey
Vinny Samways
Willy Van Der kerkof
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Forgotten? She pops up on tele regularly enough over forty years after the event, I wouldn't call her forgotten RCC?Raith_C_Chattonell said:Mary Peters.
Won the pentathlon gold, setting a world record at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. She suffered death threats on her return home to Northern Ireland, but stood firm against the bully boys. It was the only athletics gold that year and she also became the BBC sports personality of the year.
N.b. The heptathlon has been contested by female athletes since the early 1980s, when it replaced the pentathlon as the primary women's combined event contest (the javelin throw and 800 m were added). It was first contested at the Olympic level in the 1984 Summer Olympics.0
