100 Greatest Sporting Moments

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The 100 Greatest Sporting Moments was a British television programme in the 100 Greatest / 100 Worst strand on Channel 4. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom in early 2002 and reviewed the top 100 sporting moments as voted for by viewers in the United Kingdom. The show was presented by Vinnie Jones and featured input and commentary from various sporting personalities and celebrities. This list was broadcast in Britain and Ireland, and voted for by viewers from Britain and Ireland, and as such, its primary concern was sporting achievements that had an effect on these countries' national consciousness.

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Other 100 Greatest Shows

The 100 Greatest is a popular long running TV strand on Channel 4 Television that is usually broadcast in the weekend schedule in three or four hour blocks throughout the year.

Shows in this series have included the following:
  • 100 Greatest Sporting Moments (presented by Vinnie Jones)
  • 100 Greatest Sexy Moments
  • 100 Greatest Funny Moments (presented by Rob Brydon)
  • 100 Greatest Scary Moments (presented by Jimmy Carr)
  • 100 Greatest No. 1s (2001 - presented by Graham Norton)
  • 100 Greatest Cartoons (2005 - presented by Jimmy Carr)
  • 100 Greatest TV Ads (2000 - presented by Graham Norton))
  • 100 Greatest TV Moments (1999 - presented by Graham Norton)
  • 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell (2000 - presented by Zoe Ball)
The 100 Greatest is a popular long running British TV strand on Channel 4. These are normally public polls, voted for be views of the Channel 4 website. However, some of the polls are decided on by experts.
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Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue Normally tuned to 4 (excluding Wales)
Freeview Channel 4
Channel 8 (Wales)
Channel 13 (+1)
Satellite
Sky Digital Channel 104
Channel 117 (Wales)
Channel 135 (+1)
Channel 135, 136 +1 (ROI)
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Full name Vincent Peter Jones
Date of birth January 5 1965 (1965--) (age 42)
Place of birth
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The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games held in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on river, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water.
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ENGLAND

Nickname(s) The Three Lions

Association The Football Association
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Head coach Steve McClaren
Asst coach
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Germany 1-5 England was a football game held in Munich on September 1, 2001. It was a qualification match for the 2002 World Cup group match between Germany and England in which England defeated their rivals 5-1.
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Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players. It is the most popular sport in the world.
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ENGLAND

Nickname(s) The Three Lions

Association The Football Association
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Head coach Steve McClaren
Asst coach
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Teams 16   (from 74 entrants)
Host England
Matches played   32
Goals scored 89   (average 0 per match)
Attendance 1,635,000   (average 0 per match)
Top scorer(s) Eusébio
9 goals

The
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Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players. It is the most popular sport in the world.
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Manchester United

Full name Manchester United Football Club
Nickname(s) The Red Devils, Man United, United
Founded 1878, as Newton Heath L&YR F.C.
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The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final took place at the Camp Nou in Barcelona on 26 May, 1999 between English Champions Manchester United and German Champions FC Bayern Munich.
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Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players. It is the most popular sport in the world.
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England
Personal information
Full name Sir Ian Terence Botham
Nickname Beefy
Born 24 1955 (1955--) (age 0)
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each.[1] A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch.
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Full name Diego Armando Maradona
Date of birth September 30 1960 (1960--) (age 47)
Place of birth
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Motto
En unión y libertad   (Spanish)
"In Union and Freedom"
Anthem
Himno Nacional Argentino
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ENGLAND

Nickname(s) The Three Lions

Association The Football Association
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Head coach Steve McClaren
Asst coach
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Teams 24   (from 121 entrants)
Host Mexico
Matches played   52
Goals scored 132   (average 0 per match)
Attendance 2,393,331   (average 0 per match)
Top scorer(s) Gary Lineker
6 goals

The
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Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players. It is the most popular sport in the world.
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Muhammad Ali

Statistics
Name Muhammad Ali
Birth name Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
Nickname The Greatest Of All Time
Height 1.90m (6' 3")
Reach 2m (80 inches)
Weight division Heavyweight
Nationality American
Ethnicity African American
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George Foreman

Statistics
Real name George Edward Foreman
Nickname "Big George"
Rated at Heavyweight
Nationality American
Birth date January 10 1949 (1949--)
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The Rumble in The Jungle was a historic boxing event that took place on October 30, 1974, in the May 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). It pitted then world Heavyweight champion George Foreman against former world champion and challenger Muhammad
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Boxing (or pugilism) is a combat sport of English origin in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds.
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Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Gold 1984 Sarajevo Ice dancing
Bronze 1994 Lillehammer Ice dancing

Jayne Torvill, OBE (born October 7, 1957, Nottingham, United Kingdom) is a British figure skater who, with her skating partner Christopher
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Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Gold 1984 Sarajevo Ice dancing
Bronze 1994 Lillehammer Ice dancing

Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July, 1958 in Nottingham, England) is an English figure skater who won a gold medal in ice dancing at the
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The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun, Sweden.
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Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976.
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