Who is your favorite real life underdog? Or, which underdog seems the most inspiring to you?
Sport: Ski Jumping (1988 Winter Olympics)
He was disadvantaged by his weight—at about 82 kg (181 lb), more than 9 kg (20 lb) heavier than the next heaviest competitor—and by his lack of financial support for training—he was totally self-funded. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sport: Formula One (1976)
By the time of Niki Lauda's fifth win of the year at the British GP, he had more than double the points of his closest challengers Jody Scheckter and James Hunt, and a second consecutive World Championship appeared a formality. (Source: Wikipedia).
Sport: Rugby (1995 Rugby World Cup)
South Africa is hosting the 1995 Rugby World Cup, that being the only reason the Springboks are even competing in the tournament as its years on the sideline of world rugby events has not made it world ranked.
Sport: Boxing (1993)
Vinny Pazienza who, after a near fatal car crash which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sport's most incredible comebacks.
Sport: Ice Hockey (1988)
Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits.
Sport: Baseball (1946)
Robinson and his family endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike.
Sport: Football (1976)
He works as a bartender and plays football with his friends. When the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Dick Vermeil, announces that he will hold open tryouts for the team, Vince reluctantly decides to give a try.
Sport: Horse Racing (1930s)
Seabiscuit is small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp.
Sport: Boxing (1930s)
The impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom.
Sport: College Football (1974-1976)
His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players.
Sport: Ice Hockey (1980 Winter Olympics)
Herb Brooks, took a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games.
Sport: Boxing (1980s)
Micky Ward is trying to live up to his older brother Dicky, who became famous for knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard. That isn't easy because Dicky, now a crack addict, remains Micky's boxing trainer despite his unreliability.
Sport: Baseball (2001-2002)
Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage.
Sport: Cross-country running (1987)
A struggling coach and teacher who has had to move around for different incidents in his career finally comes to one of the poorest cities in America: McFarland, California.
Sport: College Basketball (1966)
Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA.
Sport: Horse Racing (1973)
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge.
Sport: Bobsleigh (1988 Winter Olympics)
In the freezing weather Derice, Sanka, Junior and Yul are only laughed at, since nobody can take a Jamaican bobsledding team led by a disgraced trainer seriously.
Sport: High School Basketball (1999)
As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both.
Sport: High School Football (1976)
Coach Jones of the T.L. Hanna High School protects a handicapped young man from the abuse of some of his players.
Sport: High School Basketball (1954)
A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team.
Sport: Baseball (1999-2000)
He once had aspirations to be a professional baseball player but an injury brought that to an end. The 39 year-old father somehow seems to have regained his pitching arm.
Sport: Football (2000s)
A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program.
Sport: Pop Warner Football (2003)
Becoming the first female to lead her team to the Pop Warner Super Bowl does not come without conflict.
Sport: Swimming (1971)
The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.
Sport: College Football (1970-1971)
A plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team. The team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Sport: High School Football (1970s)
The white head coach of the Titans is replaced by an African American coach from North Carolina. Tensions arise when players of different races are forced together on the same football team.
Sport: Baseball (2008)
Bernstein (a sports agent) gets the bold idea of finding cricket players in India and training them to become pro baseball players in America. But they find mastering a new sport in a foreign land a daunting challenge.
Sport: High School Football (1988)
Superstar tailback Boobie Miles suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team.
Sport: Surfing (2000s)
Bethany Hamilton is a champion surfer. She is attacked by a shark and loses her arm. Now she has to re-learn how to do everything with only one arm - including how to surf.
Sport: Golf (1913)
A young American, Francis Ouimet, fights for a chance to participate in the U.S. Open against his idol Harry Vardon.
Sport: Horce Racing (1993)
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance to return to the racecourse.
Sport: Swimming (1960s)
Tony has always been overshadowed in his father's eyes by his brothers. Nothing Tony did was ever good enough and he is systematically ignored or belittled.
Sport: Baseball (1957 Little League World Series)
A rag-tag, shoeless, poor group of kids from Monterrey, Mexico shocked the world when they became the first team from outside the United States or Canada in the Little Leauge World Series tournament.
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