Your best Olympic moment

[Icy Gull]

Haven't seen too many threads on this years Olympics. The games are not that far away now so let's have your best ever Olympic moment

Coe and Ovett had some fantastic head to heads but, for me, it was probably old man Linford winning the young mans event in '92

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[turienzo's lovechild]

eric the eel

 

[Simster]

Zola Budd tripping Mary Decker Slaney then carrying on to finish a SHITHOUSE fifth place.

Well worth bypassing all the passport regulations, she was.

 

[Easy 10]

Daley Thompson whistling the national anthem.

 

[seagull@stirling]

best ever was during the 1984 olympics, switched over and foud "V" on ITV...never watched the olympics since!

 

[Gully]

I was going to say that mine would be Sir Steve Redgrave winning his fifth gold medal, but then read down and found that the thread had taken an irreverant turn...so I will go for the bloke smacking his head off the diving board in Barcelona, hard to believe someone could make such a basic error in something he had been practicing for years.

 

[Icy Gull]

I was going to say that mine would be Sir Steve Redgrave winning his fifth gold medal, but then read down and found that the thread had taken an irreverant turn...so I will go for the bloke smacking his head off the diving board in Barcelona, hard to believe someone could make such a basic error in something he had been practicing for years.

Eddie the Eagle probably deserves a mention then, even if it was the winter Olympics

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My best personal memory of the Olympics was watching a guy I used to go drinking with - yes, ME, out on the piss with a so-called ATHLETE - breaking the Olympic 10,000 metres record at Montreal in 1976.

The record stood for eight years.

Sadly, it was only in the heats. And he only got a bronze medal in the final.

Brendan Foster ... fuelled on Guinness.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The Olympics is more than just winning gold. It is about years of hard work and fine tuning of the body to compete with the best in the world. The sheer grit and determination and effort that goes into training and the eventual performance is flabbergasting.

There are many heroes who have performed great feats beamed across the globe, but one stand out moment for me was Derek Redmond and simply wanting to finish the race.

You would be hardened character to have avoided a small tear or a lump in the throat when he dragged his failing body to the line with the help of his father.

 

[Wozza]

Daley Thompson whistling the national anthem.

Remember DT wearing a 'Is the world's 2nd greatest athlete gay?' T-shirt.

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

Turning it off after a record breaking 0.3 seconds. The Previous record was 0.41 seconds, held by me.

 

[Stoichkov]

Daley Thompson whistling the national anthem.

Daley Thompson trained himself to eat really fast so that he could cut down on the amount of time he thought he was 'wasting' between his am & pm training sessions..

Not only did he train on xmas day, he knew that all athletes would be training on that day (thinking that no one else was and they'd be extra dedicated) so he trained twice.

 

[itszamora]

The 4x100m final at Athens takes some beating for me.

 

[Wozza]

The 4x100m final at Athens takes some beating for me.

Oh, me too. I've never come CLOSE to matching the winning time.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

Yoshi throwing 112m in the Javelin round my place last weekend, marvellous scenes

 

[Pavilionaire]

I liked Torville and Deane's Bolero

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[house your seagull]

i was loving the 4x100m sprint relay we won in athens - turn out the yanks were drugged up anyway.

also the big nosed lad winning the swimming in sydney where he came from behind and won the relay single handidely for the aussies.

 

[1234andcounting]

David Hemery in '68 was pretty good.

Mark Spitz winning 7 (?) golds in the pool in '72.

GB's fantastic medal haul in '76 (no golds whatsoever, if memory serves, at least not in genuine sporting endeavours, which rules out prats riding about on gee-gees).

Wells, Ovett and Coe in '80.

The Carl Lewis show in 84.

Lots really.

But best of all are the David Coleman's commentaries, particularly the one about Alberto Juantorena which inspired the Private Eye column.

 

[Mendoza]

Without doubt it is the world record attempt by Eric Musumbala (the Eel)

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[The Large One]

Great Britain winning the hockey Gold in Soeul 1988.

"Sherwani... lays it square to Kerly. And that's 3-0 to Great Britain. And where were the Germans...? But frankly, who cares?