Jo Schlesser became the fourth driver to die during the 1968 season after getting trapped upside down in his blazing car. John Surtees had pronounced Honda's experimental RA302 car unsafe, but ...

Joe Frazier and George Foreman won their Olympic gold medals in the same division on the same date. In 1964, Frazier was picked as the USA's heavyweight boxer only when big Buster Mathis broke a bone ...

From the first days of motor racing, drivers have lived close to the edge. Thanks to marked improvements in safety standards, the number seriously injured and killed competing in the sport has ...

Formula One (the formula in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must comply and was originally and briefly known as Formula A) can trace its roots back to the earliest ...

1901 The first use of the words grand prix to describe a race, the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. 1904 The formation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association ...

The iconic fights' iconic fight. The Rumble in the Jungle. The night Muhammad Ali slew the ogres' ogre when people expected him to be chewed up and spat out. His comeback after three years away had ...

Bernie Ecclestone put an end to outlandish rumours linking him to the Great Train Robbery by coming clean about his association with the get-a-way driver Roy James. Ecclestone had long been linked to ...

P W L pts net R/R Pakistan 2 1 1 2 +0.56 Sri Lanka 2 1 1 2 +0.22 India 2 1 1 2 -0.46 Contributed by Peter.Griffiths ([email protected]) ...

Squads for the Singapore (Singer Cup) tourneys, April 1996 PAKISTAN *Aamir Sohail, Saeed Anwar, Salim Malik, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Basit Ali, Ramiz Raja, +Rashid Latif, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar ...

West Indies in India Oct/Dec 1983 - WI Squad Clive Lloyd (cap) Vivian Richards Gordan Greenidge Desmond Haynes Malcolm Marshall Wayne Daniel Andy Roberts Eldine Baptiste Richie Richardson Larry Gomes ...

The biggest drug story in Olympic history. The biggest fish they ever caught. After his bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1984 Games (August 4), Canada's Ben Johnson decided he needed some extra ...