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Bobby Moore and Pele, two of the greatest footballers of all time show their
sporting respect for each other after a 1970 World Cup match in Mexico.
• 1956 Australian national championships
• During the third lap, 19-year-old Ron Clarke, who would go on to set 17
world records during his career, tripped and fell. • Landy, who was trailing close behind, leapt over Clarke and
accidentally scraped his rival’s arm with his spikes in the process. • Landy stopped running to make sure that Clarke wasn’t badly hurt
before resuming his chase of the pack that had charged ahead.
• To the amazement of everyone in the crowd, Landy came from behind to finish first in a time of 4 minutes, 4 seconds.
Today, a bronze statue in Melbourne commemorates Landy’s good deed It is called, simply, “Sportsmanship.”
• Michael Phelps is an American swimmer and the most successful Olympian of all time.
• He has a total of 22 Olympic medals …
• … 18 of them gold.
• At 19 superstar Michael Phelps took the swimming pool by storm in the 2004 Athens Games.
• Victory on the final stroke of the 100 metre butterfly sealed his fourth gold medal of the Games.
• Phelps had the chance to add another medal to his tally in the 4x100m medley relay as part of a strong US line-up, but announced he would step aside "to give a team-mate a chance”.
• At the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, Judy Guinness stood to become the first ever Briton to win fencing gold.
• She was just 21, so it would have been a remarkable achievement.
• After a closely contested final against Austrian Ellen Preis, Guinness was declared the winner by the judges, but she pointed out to them that they had missed two hits by her opponent.
• Guinness's honesty cost her the gold medal.
• In the Portuguese GP in 1958 his rival Mike Hawthorn was about to be docked points after his car spun off the track.
• Moss, who had witnessed the incident, insisted at the post-race disciplinary tribunal that Hawthorn had done nothing wrong.
• Hawthorn was reprieved and beat Moss to the world title by a single point.
• Mallory Holtman and Sara Tucholsky were on opposing teams in a national softball game in 2008 when Tucholsky hit the first home run of her career.
• When she hurt her knee and was unable to run after crossing first base, Holtman and a teammate carried her around to home plate.
• If Sara Tucholsky’s own team mates had done this then she would have been out and the game would be lost.
• That amazing display of sportsmanship inspired Holtman and Tucholsky to create a foundation to help those in need.
• The Mallory Holtman and Sara Tucholsky Sportsmanship Foundation was created.
• In the 1969 Ryder Cup the USA and Britain were level at 15 and a half points each.
• On the last hole of the last match, America’s Jack Nicklaus holed his putt leaving Tony Jacklin to sink a tricky three footer to draw the match.
• Nicklaus made one of the great sporting gestures, picking up his opponent's ball marker rather than forcing Jacklin to putt out.
• Nicklaus told Jacklin: "I don't think you would have missed that Tony, but I didn't want to give you the chance."
It is not often you see players of opposing teams going out of their way to console one another after a game has ended. Their interaction is usually limited to a friendly handshake or pat on the back.
• Japan's Aya Miyama consoles dejected France player Camille Abilly at the end of their women's football semi-final, Japan v France at Wembley Stadium during the 2012 Olympic Games.
• In the 3rd Test Match of 2005 Ashes series, Australia needed 62 runs to win with one wicket left.
• Led by Brett Lee, they scored 58 of them …• … then Lee’s partner Michael Kasprovic was caught.• Ignoring the excitement of victory, England all-rounder
Andrew Flintoff consoled Brett Lee.• Flintoff explained: ‘I was taught as a kid always respect
the opposition first and celebrate after.’
• On Christmas Day in 1996, a month and a half into the round-the-world Vendee Globe yacht race, English sailor Pete Goss received a mayday notification.
• Competitor Raphael Dinelli’s yacht had wrecked in a storm in the Southern Ocean.
• Goss decided to abandon course and attempt a daring rescue of Dinelli, which required sailing his yacht, Acqua Quorom, into hurricane-force winds.
• While Goss’s yacht was knocked down several times en route, he eventually found Dinelli with the aid of an Australian Air Force plane.
• France awarded Goss
the Legion d’Honneur and the two men have become close friends.
• “ When the one great scorer, comes to count against your name, he counts not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game.”
• Grantland Rice – Grantland Rice – American sports writerAmerican sports writer