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British sporting heroes (individual and team sports)

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 5:06 pm
by shredder
The Bentley Boys
Woolf 'Babe' Barnato, 1930
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Babe (right), 1926
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Babe (left in car) with Frank Clement (right in car), 1930
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Sir Henry 'Tim' Birkin, c1930
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Babe (centre left) and Tim (centre right), 1931
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SCH 'Sammy' Davis (left) and Dr J Dudley 'Benjy' Benjafield, c1930
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Re: British sporting heroes (individual and team sports)

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:15 pm
by shredder
Eric 'Flying Scotsman' Liddell, 1924 Olympics 400m gold medalist
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Re: British sporting heroes (individual and team sports)

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:41 am
by shredder
Whilst I hesitate to post this here because I am too old fashioned to consider martial arts as sports, I nonetheless present George Kerr, the current head of British Judo Association who was recently awarded the 10th dan black belt, making him one of only 5 non-Japanese recipients, cf., http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scot ... 502895.stm
George Kerr (left)
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