British sporting heroes (individual and team sports)

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The Bentley Boys
Woolf 'Babe' Barnato, 1930


Babe (right), 1926


Babe (left in car) with Frank Clement (right in car), 1930


Sir Henry 'Tim' Birkin, c1930


Babe (centre left) and Tim (centre right), 1931


SCH 'Sammy' Davis (left) and Dr J Dudley 'Benjy' Benjafield, c1930

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Eric 'Flying Scotsman' Liddell, 1924 Olympics 400m gold medalist

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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)