TWENTY PICTURES THAT FRAMED SPORT
The Guardian Weekly|March 17, 2023
From Alito Maradona, and Bannister to Bolt, the world of sport has produced many dramatic and memorable moments. Here is a selection of stunning images captured by photographers who had the skillor luck to have their cameras poised at the right moment
- Jonny Weeks & Grace Holliday & Larry Ryan
TWENTY PICTURES THAT FRAMED SPORT

This image of Muhammad A liberating Sonny Liston in the first round of their world title fight in 1965 is among the foremost of Neil Leifer’s many pictures of Ali. Liston had gone down easily from the “phantom punch” – with many suspecting mobsters had paid him to lose early – and Ali was furious, gesticulating at Liston to get up and fight. The picture was created in an era when boxing rings were clean white canvases on which bloody duels were fought over 15 rounds, and colour film photography produced lustrous results. It’s no hyperbole to say it’s an iconic image of an iconic person in an iconic sporting moment. The picture was somehow overlooked for the front cover of Sports Illustrated, for which Leifer worked, and only decades later pulled from the archives and given its due. 

"There are no action replays here'
Tom Jenkins

YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK IN this game, kid: that was the mantra of the celebrated photographer Eamonn McCabe, who died last year. McCabe made his name as a sports photographer, and the saying couldn't be truer of his specialism. Talk to any top sports photographer and you'll discover the huge amount of work and knowledge that goes into capturing a microsecond on camera. Sports photos can be memorable as action shots, portraits, art, comedy, news. They move us because they capture emotional extremes, historical events and the wonderful occasionally tragic - chaos of live action.

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