Greatest Swedish sportsman ever

[mrbig1]

Ingemar Johansson with the right hand hammer of Thor.

Make that two votes.

[Master]

When asked what he bought his wife for her birthday Zlatan said "Nothing, she already has Zlatan".

When asked about being offered a trail at Arsenal when he was 17 years of age he said "Zlatan does not do auditions".

When talking about Pep Guardiola's management style "Advanced bullshit about blood sweat and tears that kind of stuff".

Next to his official wax work model "one is made of wax, the other is made of steel".

[Beanz]

Borg. The guy was a machine

Resistance was futile






OOops wrong Borg

[brocktonblockbust]

@Greenbeanz what fucking bloody hell pornography has to do with this thread WHICH YOU HAVE ONCE AGAIN HIJACKED bespeaks of just what agenda you have, cowboy. Time to clean your clock and wipe your nose. Since when is it unacceptable to respond to a serious thread in a serious manner? Shall I go ahead and post here your little Skype Video on the topic and see where it goes from there? One day, this forum will return to normal after you have logged out once in a while and given others a chance to express themselves without fear of character assassinations coming from your cruel mouth. Bjorn Borg? Seriously Beanz? Is that all you have?

[El Kabong]

'King' Henrik Lundquist will no doubt be in the mix if he leads the Rangers to the Cup.

[Master]

Henrik Larson would be up there for Celtic fans.

[Xwetie]

For such a small country just 9 million people i say proudly we been trying to put as much effort as possible to keep it up with the bigger countries and i do say we succeede.


Ingemar Stenmark (alpine skiing)

Regarded as the greatest slalom and giant slalom specialist of all time, Stenmark won 86 individual World Cup races between 1975 and 1989, far more than any other alpine skier in history. His dominance ushered in a change in rules for alpine skiing. Stenmark won a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics and two gold medals in 1980. He was prevented from racing at the 1984 Olympics due to his status as a professional skier. Stenmark is also known as a man of few words, which make most interviews with him…short and special.


Magdalena Forsberg (biathlon)

‘Magda’ boasts the record for most World Cup victories (42 races won) in women’s biathlon and in the process compiled six consecutive overall wins (1997-2002). Add to that six world championship golds! The Olympic gold eluded her, but she managed two bronze medals at Salt Lake City in 2002, the year she retired at the age of 35. Immensely popular in Sweden, she has on four occasions been awarded Jerringpriset, Swedish Radio’s prize for sports performance of the year, which is voted by the public. That’s more than any other athlete in Sweden.

Ingemar Johansson (boxing)

‘The Hammer of Thor’, a nickname for Johansson’s right fist, made him not only heavyweight champion of the world in 1959 but also earned him the Associated Press Athlete of the Year. When he retired in 1963, ‘Ingo’ had a record of 26 wins, 17 by KO, and only 2 losses.


Stig H. Johansson (trotting)

68-year-old Johansson is widely considered the greatest Swedish trotting trainer and driver of all time. He won 6,221 races during his 42-year career. His wins include Elitloppet (six times), Gran Premio della Lotteria (four times), Nat Ray Trot (once) and Prix d’Amérique (once). He retired in 2005.


Ronnie Peterson (Formula 1)

Throughout most of the 1970s Peterson had the reputation of being the fastest driver in F1 in terms of raw speed but found himself too often next to the winner on the podium. He won ten races and was a two-time runner-up in the FIA Formula One World Drivers’ Championship before a fatal crash at Monza in 1978.



Börje Salming (ice hockey)

Sweden’s first true NHL hockey star, Salming was one of the first European players to make an impact in the NHL. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1996. After 26 seasons in North America and Sweden, he is admired for his persistence to play despite pains and woes of injuries and stitches.


Jan-Ove Waldner (table tennis)

Popularly regarded as the best table tennis player to ever live, Waldner became a top level player at the age of 16. As one of four male players in the history of table tennis he has achieved a career grand slam (Olympic, World Champion and World Cup winner in singles), the other three being Chinese. With one gold and one silver medal, he holds the Olympic medal record for table tennis (table tennis was introduced in 198.

[Beanz]

You should not be proud of your country, that is dangerously close to patriotism...and that's ignorant

[Xwetie]

You should not be proud of your country, that is dangerously close to patriotism...and that's ignorant

And even more proud now.

Look at Dyrek Engelland trying to star ta fight with Sedin and he just pick up Dyrek stick he dropped and give it to him really friendly and just roll away, love how confused he Dyrek looks!

http://cdn.streamable.com/video/ca45...13d6849603.mp4

[Beanz]

You should not be proud of your country, that is dangerously close to patriotism...and that's ignorant

And even more proud now.

Look at Dyrek Engelland trying to star ta fight with Sedin and he just pick up Dyrek stick he dropped and give it to him really friendly and just roll away, love how confused he Dyrek looks!

http://cdn.streamable.com/video/ca45...13d6849603.mp4

Cool. I don't know who any of those people are and only the girls played Hockey at my secondary School, but well done

[Beanz]

@Greenbeanz what fucking bloody hell pornography has to do with this thread WHICH YOU HAVE ONCE AGAIN HIJACKED bespeaks of just what agenda you have, cowboy. Time to clean your clock and wipe your nose. Since when is it unacceptable to respond to a serious thread in a serious manner? Shall I go ahead and post here your little Skype Video on the topic and see where it goes from there? One day, this forum will return to normal after you have logged out once in a while and given others a chance to express themselves without fear of character assassinations coming from your cruel mouth. Bjorn Borg? Seriously Beanz? Is that all you have?

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[ryanman]

For such a small country just 9 million people i say proudly we been trying to put as much effort as possible to keep it up with the bigger countries and i do say we succeede.


Ingemar Stenmark (alpine skiing)

Regarded as the greatest slalom and giant slalom specialist of all time, Stenmark won 86 individual World Cup races between 1975 and 1989, far more than any other alpine skier in history. His dominance ushered in a change in rules for alpine skiing. Stenmark won a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics and two gold medals in 1980. He was prevented from racing at the 1984 Olympics due to his status as a professional skier. Stenmark is also known as a man of few words, which make most interviews with him…short and special.


Magdalena Forsberg (biathlon)

‘Magda’ boasts the record for most World Cup victories (42 races won) in women’s biathlon and in the process compiled six consecutive overall wins (1997-2002). Add to that six world championship golds! The Olympic gold eluded her, but she managed two bronze medals at Salt Lake City in 2002, the year she retired at the age of 35. Immensely popular in Sweden, she has on four occasions been awarded Jerringpriset, Swedish Radio’s prize for sports performance of the year, which is voted by the public. That’s more than any other athlete in Sweden.

Ingemar Johansson (boxing)

‘The Hammer of Thor’, a nickname for Johansson’s right fist, made him not only heavyweight champion of the world in 1959 but also earned him the Associated Press Athlete of the Year. When he retired in 1963, ‘Ingo’ had a record of 26 wins, 17 by KO, and only 2 losses.


Stig H. Johansson (trotting)

68-year-old Johansson is widely considered the greatest Swedish trotting trainer and driver of all time. He won 6,221 races during his 42-year career. His wins include Elitloppet (six times), Gran Premio della Lotteria (four times), Nat Ray Trot (once) and Prix d’Amérique (once). He retired in 2005.


Ronnie Peterson (Formula 1)

Throughout most of the 1970s Peterson had the reputation of being the fastest driver in F1 in terms of raw speed but found himself too often next to the winner on the podium. He won ten races and was a two-time runner-up in the FIA Formula One World Drivers’ Championship before a fatal crash at Monza in 1978.



Börje Salming (ice hockey)

Sweden’s first true NHL hockey star, Salming was one of the first European players to make an impact in the NHL. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1996. After 26 seasons in North America and Sweden, he is admired for his persistence to play despite pains and woes of injuries and stitches.


Jan-Ove Waldner (table tennis)

Popularly regarded as the best table tennis player to ever live, Waldner became a top level player at the age of 16. As one of four male players in the history of table tennis he has achieved a career grand slam (Olympic, World Champion and World Cup winner in singles), the other three being Chinese. With one gold and one silver medal, he holds the Olympic medal record for table tennis (table tennis was introduced in 198.

Trotting? Trotting??

[Xwetie]

For such a small country just 9 million people i say proudly we been trying to put as much effort as possible to keep it up with the bigger countries and i do say we succeede.


Ingemar Stenmark (alpine skiing)

Regarded as the greatest slalom and giant slalom specialist of all time, Stenmark won 86 individual World Cup races between 1975 and 1989, far more than any other alpine skier in history. His dominance ushered in a change in rules for alpine skiing. Stenmark won a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics and two gold medals in 1980. He was prevented from racing at the 1984 Olympics due to his status as a professional skier. Stenmark is also known as a man of few words, which make most interviews with him…short and special.


Magdalena Forsberg (biathlon)

‘Magda’ boasts the record for most World Cup victories (42 races won) in women’s biathlon and in the process compiled six consecutive overall wins (1997-2002). Add to that six world championship golds! The Olympic gold eluded her, but she managed two bronze medals at Salt Lake City in 2002, the year she retired at the age of 35. Immensely popular in Sweden, she has on four occasions been awarded Jerringpriset, Swedish Radio’s prize for sports performance of the year, which is voted by the public. That’s more than any other athlete in Sweden.

Ingemar Johansson (boxing)

‘The Hammer of Thor’, a nickname for Johansson’s right fist, made him not only heavyweight champion of the world in 1959 but also earned him the Associated Press Athlete of the Year. When he retired in 1963, ‘Ingo’ had a record of 26 wins, 17 by KO, and only 2 losses.


Stig H. Johansson (trotting)

68-year-old Johansson is widely considered the greatest Swedish trotting trainer and driver of all time. He won 6,221 races during his 42-year career. His wins include Elitloppet (six times), Gran Premio della Lotteria (four times), Nat Ray Trot (once) and Prix d’Amérique (once). He retired in 2005.


Ronnie Peterson (Formula 1)

Throughout most of the 1970s Peterson had the reputation of being the fastest driver in F1 in terms of raw speed but found himself too often next to the winner on the podium. He won ten races and was a two-time runner-up in the FIA Formula One World Drivers’ Championship before a fatal crash at Monza in 1978.



Börje Salming (ice hockey)

Sweden’s first true NHL hockey star, Salming was one of the first European players to make an impact in the NHL. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1996. After 26 seasons in North America and Sweden, he is admired for his persistence to play despite pains and woes of injuries and stitches.


Jan-Ove Waldner (table tennis)

Popularly regarded as the best table tennis player to ever live, Waldner became a top level player at the age of 16. As one of four male players in the history of table tennis he has achieved a career grand slam (Olympic, World Champion and World Cup winner in singles), the other three being Chinese. With one gold and one silver medal, he holds the Olympic medal record for table tennis (table tennis was introduced in 198.

Trotting? Trotting??

Never heard of trotting,

trotting

Also found in: Medical, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
trot (trŏt)
n.
1.
a. The gait of a horse or other four-footed animal, between a walk and a canter in speed, in which diagonal pairs of legs move forward together.
b. A ride on a horse moving with this gait.
2. A gait of a person, faster than a walk; a jog.
3. Sports A race for trotters.
4. See pony.
5. trots Informal Diarrhea. Used with the.
6. A toddler.
7. Archaic An old woman.
v. trot·ted, trot·ting, trots
v.intr.
1. To go or move at a trot.
2. To proceed rapidly; hurry.
v.tr.
To cause to move at a trot.
Phrasal Verb:
trot out Informal
To bring out and show for inspection or admiration: "His novel trots out an Irish president named Finn" (Charles E. Claffey).

[SugarBoxing]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic named second-greatest Swedish sportsman ever, and he's pissed.

Have you heard of Björn Borg? He was really good at tennis. He was ranked No. 1 in the world for a total of 109 weeks, has the highest winning percentage of any male player ever and won 11 majors.

In a recent poll, he was ranked the greatest Swedish sportsperson ever, ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. And Zlatan is pissed.

@Xwetie

my input - Puma Swede

[Master]

Peter Mangs, a Swedish gunman behind a string of shootings between 2003 and 2010 in Malmo, has claimed he once came close to shooting the footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic for parking illegally.

Mangs says that he saw the footballer’s red Ferrari on a pavement and became so angry at Ibrahimovic’s “typically Balkan behaviour” – a reference to the striker’s Bosnian heritage – that he returned home to get his gun.

“I thought there would be a proper hullabaloo in the media if the gent in question were to be shot,” Mangs has written in a new book about his life. However, when he returned to where Ibrahimovic’s car was parked, the footballer had left.

Mangs was arrested in November 2010 following a manhunt for a gunman police had linked to more than a dozen shootings in 2009-2010 in Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmo, where about 40% of the 300,000 residents are first- or second-generation immigrants. Police later said he was also involved in shootings before that period.

The victims were shot through windows of apartments, businesses, parked cars, or as they were walking along the street. A court convicted Mangs of 13 out of 20 charges he faced, including two counts of murder and four attempted murders, and ruled that he underwent a psychiatric evaluation.

Judges said there was compelling evidence to show that Mangs had shot and killed two people: 20-year-old Trez West Persson in 2009, while she sat in a car; and 66-year-old Iranian-born Kooros Effatian, in the victim’s home in 2003.

Swedish gunman claims he nearly shot Zlatan Ibrahimovic for bad parking | Football | The Guardian