Most Disgraceful Sporting Moment

[99*]

Quite simple, just post a link or give a description of what you think is the most disgraceful moment in sports.

For me, the death of Roger Williamson in the Dutch GP. His car crashed, flipped and caught fire, fellow driver and friend David Purley stopped his car and got out to try flip the car and get Roger out. While this was happening the track marshalls were on the track kicking parts that fell off the car off the track. Once the fire started to get to big David was pulled away by marshalls and te car was left to burn with Roger still in the car. What made this so much worse was some members of the crowd wanted to help flip the car, but were stopped by marshalls/guards with dogs.

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=3mz3ZzSXyWM



Close second was a Spanish GP (can't remember the date), where the day before the race it was found the track barriers were unsafe. The team wanted to cancel the race and wait for updates to the barriers, but the race organisers threatened to sue the team with breach of contract. This forced the teams to race and during it a car's rear wing broke and the car flew into the crowd killing three people. The race continued for three more laps and the organisers still held a celebration.

 

[Craig]

Underarm ftw

 

[NZTailender]

Anytime Anthony Mundine won/wins a fight.

 

[Uppercut]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXJyDHFKn0

The All-Blacks on O'Driscoll came to mind first. Not as bad as what you describe, though, to be fair.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Quite simple, just post a link or give a description of what you think is the most disgraceful moment in sports.

For me, the death of Roger Williamson in the Dutch GP. His car crashed, flipped and caught fire, fellow driver and friend David Purley stopped his car and got out to try flip the car and get Roger out. While this was happening the track marshalls were on the track kicking parts that fell off the car off the track. Once the fire started to get to big David was pulled away by marshalls and te car was left to burn with Roger still in the car. What made this so much worse was some members of the crowd wanted to help flip the car, but were stopped by marshalls/guards with dogs.

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=3mz3ZzSXyWM



Close second was a Spanish GP (can't remember the date), where the day before the race it was found the track barriers were unsafe. The team wanted to cancel the race and wait for updates to the barriers, but the race organisers threatened to sue the team with breach of contract. This forced the teams to race and during it a car's rear wing broke and the car flew into the crowd killing three people. The race continued for three more laps and the organisers still held a celebration.

Pretty hard to say anything after that. Don't mind admitting I have tears in my eyes. Seeing the other cars continue the race as a genuine tragedy unfolds is just awful on a human level. Purley's desperate heroism stands in stark contrast to the marshalls' indifference.

Really, really awful to see.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Pretty hard to say anything after that. Don't mind admitting I have tears in my eyes. Seeing the other cars continue the race as a genuine tragedy unfolds is just awful on a human level. Purley's desperate heroism stands in stark contrast to the marshalls' indifference.

Really, really awful to see.

Yeah, that was not a nice thing to see. Hard to look past this, TBH. This thread's pretty much over.

 

[GIMH]

Sickener

 

[Goughy]

Don't mind admitting I have tears in my eyes.

Having read the thread, I didnt think it could be that bad but I agree with the above.

From a distance of a generation away and watching a computer screen it would be easy to be divorced from the images and yet Purley, hidden by a helmet, shows a pain and humanity that is truly touching and heart wrenching.

 

[David]

Pretty hard to say anything after that. Don't mind admitting I have tears in my eyes. Seeing the other cars continue the race as a genuine tragedy unfolds is just awful on a human level. Purley's desperate heroism stands in stark contrast to the marshalls' indifference.

Really, really awful to see.

Yeah, that was not a nice thing to see. Hard to look past this, TBH. This thread's pretty much over.

Totally agree. I can't think of any moment as bad as this. Truly a heartbreaking piece of footage.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

/thread

Don't think I've been touched as strongly by any sporting moment as I have been by this when I first watched it sometime last year. Just watching the footage will stay with me forever.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Watching it again, tears in the eyes.

 

[Jono]

**** that's horrible.

Apparently the drivers who passed by thought it was Purley's car that crashed, and that he was just fire extinguishing his own car.

That created a domino effect as they kept racing, and hence the fire truck couldn't come directly on the track because it would have to go up against oncoming F1 cars.

Pretty ****ed up

 

[nightprowler10]

Jeez that's ****ing horrible. How can one watch that and actually hold back tears.

EDIT: Walked around the kitchen and still couldn't stop the tears. ffs

 

[pasag]

Must be just me then...

 

[Johnners]

No tears? None for me either. Cold hearted etc.

Not that it makes it any less shocking.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

 

[sledger]

Its the bit where he's forced away and you can see his head just drop that gets me

 

[The Baconator]

Close second was a Spanish GP (can't remember the date), where the day before the race it was found the track barriers were unsafe. The team wanted to cancel the race and wait for updates to the barriers, but the race organisers threatened to sue the team with breach of contract. This forced the teams to race and during it a car's rear wing broke and the car flew into the crowd killing three people. The race continued for three more laps and the organisers still held a celebration.

Yeah, that'd be Montjuich Park in 1975. They actually locked all the cars and stuff in the compound where they were kept until they agreed to race.

 

[nightprowler10]

Its the bit where he's forced away and you can see his head just drop that gets me

Yeah same here.

Shouldn't have said that 'how can one hold back tears' as its really not fair. Everybody gets emotional over different things.

 

[Bronte]

McCaw the great NEW Zealand captain,he is so good he manages to pull the wool over all referees eyes and gets away with more professional fouls in one game than most players do in a full career.