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Who's your favourite Summer Olympian, and why?
- Thread starter Stat Brother
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
A mention for Steve Redgrave who overcame his health problems to win at five different Olympics.
Indurain's Lungs
Legend of Garry Nelson
Cav is a bold choice considering he's never won an Olympic medal!
Arthur
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This thread is rubbish! Was expecting to come on here to find pictures of beach volleyball players and you lot are answering properly.
Very disappointed!
Very disappointed!
big hilda
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- Feb 13, 2013
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joeinbrighton
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Current: Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill
Past: Michael Johnson - he broke the 200m record which Usain Bolt went on to break on the night of my 18th birthday
Past: Michael Johnson - he broke the 200m record which Usain Bolt went on to break on the night of my 18th birthday
AmexRuislip
Trainee Spy 🕵️♂️
Fanny Blankers-Koen, named 'the flying housewife' on account of her winning four gold medals in 1949, whilst pregnant...amazing.
On a serious side, Daley Thompson grafter.
Another of my favourite athletes (not an olypian but would be thee days) and smoked like a chimney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkq4fVKzibY
Iamapen15
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As a child, I use to live but a few doors away from Daley Thompson.
It seemed as though I was always bumping into Sally Gunnell.
And I use to work in the same building as Kelly Holmes' management company. I often shared a lift with her. I carried her book around with me for a few weeks hoping to bump into her again, before she signed it. She even agreed to come and give a moral talk to my peers!
All that said, Katrin Krabbe is my all time favourite
Of the current crop, I'm a big Mo Farah fan!
It seemed as though I was always bumping into Sally Gunnell.
And I use to work in the same building as Kelly Holmes' management company. I often shared a lift with her. I carried her book around with me for a few weeks hoping to bump into her again, before she signed it. She even agreed to come and give a moral talk to my peers!
All that said, Katrin Krabbe is my all time favourite
Of the current crop, I'm a big Mo Farah fan!
Another here who *ahem* admired Katrin Krabbe in my youth. She was like Claudia Schiffer in running spikes, and a wholesome nursery school teacher, to boot. With her all-round image, had she been born 20 years later, she'd have been THE Nike pin-up, and would have made MILLIONS*
*Unless WADA scuppered it all.
*Unless WADA scuppered it all.
As for now, on the athletics front, I'm a big fan of the hugely likeable Dafne Schippers, and much as Jess Ennis is incredible, am rooting for the very talented and very lovely Katarina Jonson-Thompson in their event.
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Clearly Fräulein Krabbe would have had a fair few admirers in her day, but I'm genuinely surprised that a fair few of us still hold her in such high regard.
maybe not that surprised.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
grubbyhands
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Ben Proud,freestyle 50 metre swimmer mainly because his mother is a friend of mine and his family customers.