Sentence examples for sporting tragedy from inspiring English sources
A recurring sporting tragedy.
As a sporting tragedy it is ahead of anything I can remember".
That may explain why he called the outcome here "a small sporting tragedy".
A sporting tragedy for Cruyff not to get a winners' medal, but then what sort of world would we live in if the likes of Beckenbauer and Müller didn't have one in their collection?
Families of those who lost their lives in Britain's worst sporting tragedy on 15 April 1989 collected a specially designed scroll and a medal with the name of their loved one inscribed on it.
The BBC has seen secret papers about Britain's worst sporting tragedy.
An ex-music video director who made his name with promos for Korn and Sugar Ray before moving on to high-profile commercials for Coke and Gap, his contribution to cinema runs to Charlie's Angels (2000), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) and We Are Marshall (2006), a slightly soapy true tale of a sports tragedy whose only real surprise was Matthew McConaughey declining to remove his shirt.
I had driven to Boston from New Haven to see what was to turn out to be one of the legendary sports tragedies: the Harvard-Yale football game that came to be known as The Tie. Except it wasn't really a tie: Yale led by 16 points with about two minutes to go, and we were tipsily waving the white handkerchiefs of triumphalism at the Harvard side when a shocking reversal began to unfold.
So Lululemon does two years of marketing research in the rust-belt city of Buffalo, and somehow comes up with the idea that evoking two local sports tragedies totally out of context in a fancy floor-mosaic in their new store would express solidarity with the hoi polloi.
A strong counterpoint to such matters is the coming together of football, and sport, when tragedy occurs.
This is not an issue about extra-sporting events such as the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters or those rare instances when sport and tragedy actually intersect, such as the death in action of Ayrton Senna.
