Your top sports story of 2008
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009The results are in!
ABC NewsRadio asked you to tell us what you thought was the most important sports story of 2008. And in the year of the Beijing Olympics, nearly thirty percent of listeners voted for Australian Matthew Mitcham’s greatest-ever Olympic dive, followed by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s three gold medals and American superfish Michael Phelps’ haul of eight gold medals. Certain events in tennis and racing came in next!
Here’s the complete list of the 10 most important sports stories of the past 12 months, as voted by you, ranked in order:
- Matthew Mitcham’s greatest-ever Olympic dive 28.6%
- Usain Bolt’s amazing 3 gold medals 21.7%
- Michael Phelps, superfish, wins 8 gold medals 13.6%
- Wimbledon Men’s Final (Nadal V Federer) 9.9%
- Bart Cummings, master trainer, wins his 12th Melbourne Cup (with Viewed) 6.9%
- Hawthorn beats (hot favourite) Geelong in the AFL Grand Final 6.4%
- Manly beats (hot favourite) Melbourne in the NRL Grand Final 4.4%
- Adam Gilchrist, wicket-keeper extraordinaire, retires 4.2%
- Tiger Woods takes the US Open (literally on one good leg) 3.5%
- Ben Cousins resumes his footy career (at Richmond) 0.7%
View the results of our other web polls here.
