The ten best iconic celebrations
Friday 31 July 2009
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With his arms spread out wide and a look of triumph on his face, Andrew Flintoff's celebration during the second Test at Lords could well be the image that defines this Ashes series.
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Throughout the sporting world, individual celebrations have had the power to represent more than just victory. While some have signified the latest chapter in a sport star's career, others have been able to reflect or lead the mood of a nation.
Here we count down the greatest and most memorable celebrations from the world of sport.
- 1 Lightning kills an entire football team
- 2 I was born to be a killer. Every night I see the Devil in my dreams
- 3 Cambridge students' twin tragedy
- 4 Did Banksy's latest work bring misery to a homeless man?
- 5 Night in the cells accidentally became two years in solitary
- 6 Government 'may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters', scientists fear
- 7 Mona Lisa's 'twin sister' is discovered – 500 years late
- 8 The picture that shames Italy
- 9 Robert Fisk: From Washington this looks like Syria's 'Benghazi moment'. But not from here
- 10 Mark Steel: How to get efficient or die trying
- 1 From cats to Cantonas: Weird things seen on a football pitch
- 2 Ferguson fears that racism is returning
- 3 James Lawton: Cool heads are needed – yet Dalglish still fuels the fires
- 4 Awful conversion rate means Suarez must go to finishing school
- 5 Sports caption competition winners
- 6 Harry Redknapp: A career in pictures
- 7 Capello quits as England manager
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