The coach, Bill Bowerman, is a track and field legend in his own right (the shoes we see him painstakingly making for his runners throughout the movie were the beginnings of a little company he founded called Nike).

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Another golfing legend, Gary Player, was at the tail of the field after carding a 79 in only his second European outing this year.

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McGeechan, who as head coach appointed Johnson as skipper 12 years ago, believes O'Connell has similar qualities to the England legend and is the ideal man to lead the Lions, on and off the field.

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Mr. Logan had commissioned a study, including help from Olympic legend Carl Lewis, to find out why the U.S. track and field team won only 23 medals in Beijing and to set up strategies to win more in London.

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For tennis legend, Billie Jean King, she believes that men and women can compete together on an equal playing field towards a common goal.

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Legend sees American's maneuvers as being behind Fort Worth's lawsuit to stop interstate flights out of Love Field.

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As far as Cunningham's on-field presence is concerned, Saints fans had already become accustomed to the fact that their former Great Britain legend did not always run to a full 80 minutes any more.

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