Sean Kelly

Spawn of Cabbie

Jeff Stelling used to work for Eurosport and with about 7 minutes notice he was told to go and commentate on fencing - a sport he's never even watched before. He filled two hours with '...and the crowd seem to like it' or variants thereon.

I haven't read the whole thread but when I started watching cycling I found him very tiresome (I didn't actually know who he was) but as my knowledge improved so did my fondness for him.

Then he suggested somebody needed ' a good fokking drillin' and his legend status (as a commentator) was sealed.

campagchris

"Then he suggested somebody needed ' a good fokking drillin' and his legend status (as a commentator) was sealed."

I still have that on dvd
He was one of my heros when I started along with Robert Millar.My Favourite comment from Sean was( I think Valverde) when Sean said he was lying terd

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flattythehurdler

skavanagh.bikeradar wrote:

Happy Birthday, bleatedly, Sean Kelly.
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emadden

Hustler won today

Monty Dog

I enjoyed the 'Hustler" comments today too

knedlicky

There's life in the old dog(s) yet.

I only learnt today that Sean Kelly took part in a criterium last week 28 July, along with the likes of Van Impe, Maertens, Moser, the Planckaert brothers, Matten, and Van Springel. In all, 28 'blasts from the past'.

It was the 'Criterium of Gentlemen' at Diksmuide, inland from Ostend. Winner of the 15 km race was Museeuw in exactly 20 mins 00 secs, in a sprint ahead of Roger De Vlaeminck and Dierckxsens.

I didn't hear how Kelly was placed, but all participants finished.

Le Commentateur

I found out last week that he was riding a carbon frame (actually fibre & resin tubes, held together with steel lugs) in the 80s. Yet it also had old school toe-straps, an odd blend of cutting edge and retro.



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pottssteve

Looks loike he's sufferin' majorly there..

trig1

Hardest man in sport, ever.

RichN95.

trig1 wrote:

Hardest man in sport, ever.

He was hard no doubt - but I would like to offer you former All Blacks captain Wayne Shelford.

From his Wiki entry:

Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and an errant French boot found its way into Shelford's groin, somehow ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. Incredibly, after discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physio to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed.

capilinconnemara

Le Commentateur wrote:

I found out last week that he was riding a carbon frame (actually fibre & resin tubes, held together with steel lugs) in the 80s. Yet it also had old school toe-straps, an odd blend of cutting edge and retro.

SKwas one of the last of the Top level riders to move to clipless peds

nick hanson

RichN95 wrote:

trig1 wrote:

Hardest man in sport, ever.

He was hard no doubt - but I would like to offer you former All Blacks captain Wayne Shelford.

From his Wiki entry:

Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and an errant French boot found its way into Shelford's groin, somehow ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. Incredibly, after discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physio to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed.

I rather think there's a difference between 'hard' & unhinged!
The hardest man in sport.ever?
we can all have our own views,but there will never be a difinitive answer

afx237vi

Bert Trautmann? Man City goalkeeper, playing in the 1956 FA Cup final, got kneed in the head with 15 minutes to go. No subs allowed in those days, so he carried on playing, made lots of crucial saves, went to the post-match dinner despite the fact he couldn't move his head... went to the hospital the next day and it turns out he'd broken 5 vertebrae in his neck and could have died. Hard.

teagar

afx237vi wrote:

Bert Trautmann? Man City goalkeeper, playing in the 1956 FA Cup final, got kneed in the head with 15 minutes to go. No subs allowed in those days, so he carried on playing, made lots of crucial saves, went to the post-match dinner despite the fact he couldn't move his head... went to the hospital the next day and it turns out he'd broken 5 vertebrae in his neck and could have died. Hard.

For all the wayward things he ingested and injected, Tyler Hamilton was pretty hard. Finished a race with many a painful injury - even had to have his teeth capped for grinding them too much I think.


Apparantly.

deejay

Le Commentateur wrote:

pottssteve wrote:

Looks loike he's sufferin' majorly there..

On his way up the col d'Eze final stage time trial, for yet another Win. !

sudholz

"He's definitely giving it 100% there"

Legend on bike and in commentary box.

I used to have a picture of Sean's legs on my wall when I was a wannabe teenage cycling nut - Paris Roubaix podium circa 84-85 I think. Very similar to frenchfighter's b/w pic.

emadden

Those are majorly cool shoes... certaintly




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