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Title: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: Tal on January 20, 2014, 09:50:12 PM Quiet day in the BBC sport office (at a guess) prompted this article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/25816658 Start your engines, then. We aren't looking for the best (in most cases, they won't be), but the one who made the game look most beautiful. For tennis, I'd go for this fella: (http://img.timeinc.net/time/asia/magazine/2009/0720/stockholm_souvenir.jpg) Nice and easy starter, that. Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: edgascoigne on January 20, 2014, 09:57:44 PM Snooker. Ronnie (NAP).
Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: Woodsey on January 20, 2014, 09:57:59 PM Loved watching this guy :)
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfblvjqHF00 Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: claypole on January 20, 2014, 10:01:15 PM Sugar Ray Leonard......loved him when I was grwoing up, absolutely beautiful as boxers go
Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: claypole on January 20, 2014, 10:02:43 PM incred
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_gmZn9YlXs No Mas Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: The Camel on January 20, 2014, 10:06:45 PM Tennis can only be John Mac surely?
Football, Messi? Cricket, Viv Richards? Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: TightEnd on January 20, 2014, 10:06:52 PM Closer and running back
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP6esS4b7Tc YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DcHoF0Gjao Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: claypole on January 20, 2014, 10:08:08 PM #Invalid YouTube Link# #Invalid YouTube Link# tighty slowrolling us ;) Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: Tal on January 20, 2014, 10:08:55 PM Tennis can only be John Mac surely? Football, Messi? Cricket, Viv Richards? Not sure John Mac had the grace and elegance of Borg. As for Messi... YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mns_jEJlzR0 Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: claypole on January 20, 2014, 10:09:02 PM Links work now phew
Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: TightEnd on January 20, 2014, 10:09:36 PM The greatest over ever. I saw this live aged 9. It never left me. Incredible athlete
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKgVoEapWC0 Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: claypole on January 20, 2014, 10:10:52 PM Apolgies...
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAhLDWxtyA Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: Tal on January 20, 2014, 10:13:42 PM Who had post 12?
Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: AndrewT on January 20, 2014, 10:14:47 PM Here's 18 minutes of nothing but Brian Lara hitting cover drives.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9SBlb7nenc Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: Rubbish2407 on January 20, 2014, 10:17:22 PM If we're talking Cricket then it has to be this guy?
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y1hI2Tt8F8 There's something surreal when you watch the flight of the ball, the way it drifts then comes back in. And of course, he made it look so easy. Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: TightEnd on January 20, 2014, 10:20:01 PM Simply the best rugby player you will ever see. Another boyhood idol
The hand off at 0.48 is brilliant and brtual YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghe96LfUTcI Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: claypole on January 20, 2014, 10:25:07 PM Strange one but think falls into the artist, such a tough ecent and utterly dominated and was very stylish
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01DaMyrys20 Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: BigAdz on January 20, 2014, 10:29:20 PM With Claypole. Defo the Ed.
Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: Rubbish2407 on January 20, 2014, 10:30:15 PM Amazing watching the Gareth Edwards one how many high tackles JPR used to be on the end of?
Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: Tal on January 20, 2014, 10:39:20 PM I should give a chess one, really.
I'd go for a surprising answer: Vasily Smyslov. He was World Champ 1957-58, but his style was to generate a smooth game. He had an elegance in his endgames (which he was famous for), but his attacks swarmed, with all the pieces working together, like a wave towards the king. I know most don't follow chess, so I shalln't post about him here, other than to say I'd put his beauty above Fischer, Kasparov or Carlsen. (http://www.trapaninostra.it/paginevarie/Erice_Scacchi/Erice_Scacchi_01_Tal_v_Smyslov.jpg) Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: The Camel on January 20, 2014, 11:41:00 PM Barry Sanders is a great call.
Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: BorntoBubble on January 20, 2014, 11:44:17 PM Loved watching this guy :) YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfblvjqHF00 Loved that man Woodsey. Met him when i must have been about 9/10 and was always amazed by how small yet built he was. The way he used to step and take off was incredible! Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: DungBeetle on January 21, 2014, 09:20:17 AM Football - Enzo "The Prince" Francescoli of Uruguay in the late 80s. A master at stroking the ball down without acheiving too much.
Formula 1 - Jensen Button Tennis - Fabrice Santoro Title: Re: The Greatest Artist in Sport (apart from Kevin Painter) Post by: vegaslover on January 21, 2014, 12:45:17 PM Loved watching this guy :) YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfblvjqHF00 Loved that man Woodsey. Met him when i must have been about 9/10 and was always amazed by how small yet built he was. The way he used to step and take off was incredible! Looked even more of an artist in League imo. Would have been an awesome RB in NFL |