Most unsportsmanlike moment in sporting history

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Trevor Chappell's underarm last ball in a Australia/New Zealand ODI must be a contender.

[video=youtube;FBqlekPW9mk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBqlekPW9mk[/video]
 
I don't think it is allowed anymore, after that incident they must have had some sort of the ball has to bounce x amounts of times or some kuk :D.

I would say saurez in the world cup is also a contender but granted, ghana had a chance to win it but they missed.
 
Yeah he was a proper knob in doing that. Was booed off, the batsman just threw his bat and even his own wicketkeeper said no lol.

I'd add Zidane's headbutt as well.
 
Trevor Chappell is Greg Chappell's brother, who instructed him to bowl the underarm ball in the first place. Greg Chappell was one of the most unsportsmanlike characters in sporting history. In that same match, he refused to walk after he was clearly caught - the umpires then reconsidered and he was allowed to stay on the pitch and score big. Interestingly enough, Dennis Lillee was inside the line when the ball was bowled meaning that it should actually have been a no-ball, but wasn't called. You know what really makes this incident even worse, is that that batsman, Brian McKhenie threw his bat on the ground in disgust after the game, and was then fined for supposedly bringing the game into disrepute...
 
killadoob said:
I don't think it is allowed anymore, after that incident they must have had some sort of the ball has to bounce x amounts of times or some kuk :D.
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The ICC outlawed under-arm bowling and the regulation itself doesn't have anything to do with the number of times the ball bounces, as under-arm bowling can produce a bouncing ball, it has to do with the angle at which one's arm extends at the time of delivery, if memory serves correct...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Yeah he was a proper knob in doing that. Was booed off, the batsman just threw his bat and even his own wicketkeeper said no lol.
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Interestingly, Greg and Trevor were the two Chappell's on the pitch and solely responsible for that incident, while their brother Ian Chappell was commentating. As the ball was bowled he clearly says "Oh no, Greg. No no no - you can;t do that." Or something to that effect...
 
I do however think the Chappell underarm ball was the worst display of sportsmanship in the history of sport. That was disgusting and unforgivable...
 
DJ... said:
I do however think the Chappell underarm ball was the worst display of sportsmanship in the history of sport. That was disgusting and unforgivable...
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Yeah the violent incidents and such happen. In terms of sportsmanship and playing in the spirit of the game, that Chappell incident is as bad as it gets.
 
Boris Onishchenko

Onischenko wins points for ingenuity and bringing old school swindling back to modern sport. “Boris the cheat” was actually an accomplished athlete. He’d earned the Soviet Union medals in the modern pentathlon in Munich and Mexico City before the scandal in Montreal in 1976.

Boris dominated his early fencing bouts until he came up against Briton Jim Fox. He lunged at Fox and the scoreboard recorded a hit. Problem was, Fox was retreating at the time, and there was no way he could have been hit. “It was like waving a magic wand,” said Fox.

Eventually, officials dismantled the equipment, and wired into the handle was a pressure pad that would register a hit when pressed, regardless of whether there was or wasn’t an opponent.

The engineering suggested he had help from someone higher up in the USSR team, but Boris took the rap. He was disqualified.

The Soviet team threatened to throw him out the window; he was sent packing from the athlete’s village and he was stripped of all his sporting medals. Two months later, Boris was said to be working as a taxi driver in Kiev.
 
"Trevor Chappell was socially shunned afterwards, but might have got himself a great endorsement deal with a deodorant brand...for the most foul underarm ever" :D
 
DJ... said:
You know what really makes this incident even worse, is that that batsman, Brian McKhenie threw his bat on the ground in disgust after the game, and was then fined for supposedly bringing the game into disrepute...
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Back when I first heard of this incident I was like WTF wrt the above part. Disrepute, really?! Kinda like making that Bryce twat referee of the year.
 
member2204 said:
Boris Onishchenko

Onischenko wins points for ingenuity and bringing old school swindling back to modern sport. “Boris the cheat” was actually an accomplished athlete. He’d earned the Soviet Union medals in the modern pentathlon in Munich and Mexico City before the scandal in Montreal in 1976.

Boris dominated his early fencing bouts until he came up against Briton Jim Fox. He lunged at Fox and the scoreboard recorded a hit. Problem was, Fox was retreating at the time, and there was no way he could have been hit. “It was like waving a magic wand,” said Fox.

Eventually, officials dismantled the equipment, and wired into the handle was a pressure pad that would register a hit when pressed, regardless of whether there was or wasn’t an opponent.

The engineering suggested he had help from someone higher up in the USSR team, but Boris took the rap. He was disqualified.

The Soviet team threatened to throw him out the window; he was sent packing from the athlete’s village and he was stripped of all his sporting medals. Two months later, Boris was said to be working as a taxi driver in Kiev.
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I guess when it comes to cheating, there are thousands of examples. I view unsportsman-like conduct in a different light to cheating...
 
How's this doozy?

So you thought the episode of South Park where Cartman pretends to be mentally disabled to enter the Special Olympics was fiction? Think again. The 2000 Paralympics saw the basketball team from Spain take the gold medal in the “intellectual disability” category. Carlos Ribagorda, an undercover journalist, revealed that the players on Spain’s team had not actually undergone the testing required to prove mental deficiency. It turned out that ten of the twelve players on the Spain basketball team were perfectly normal, making us really, really wish some of these games were on YouTube, just, you know, for research purposes. It wasn’t just the basketball team either, participants in table tennis, track and field, and swimming events were also not disabled, making us really wonder about Spain a little bit. Cause, come on, really? Cheating in the intellectually disabled portion of the Paralympics? I’m not sure it gets a lot worse than that.
Read more at http://soccerlens.com/the-15-greatest-sports-cheats-of-all-time/29838/#vvWcTAvMDGGrvodG.99
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http://soccerlens.com/the-15-greatest-sports-cheats-of-all-time/29838/
 
The under arm ball, Suarez, Maradona and the hand of god. There have been a few in rugby, Percy getting pushed into a TV camera, a New Zealander ripped someones scrotum open I think, numerous times there has been stamping on players heads. The body-line series should probably get a mention too. A guy like Contador doping his way to a TdF win (and all the others that dope there) as well as Marion Jones etc.
 
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