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I'm not really an F1 fan but I'm going for Niki Lauda finishing 4th in the 1976 Italian Grand Prix just six weeks after being burnt alive in his car at Nuremburg. From Wikipedia 'Lauda returned to race only six weeks (three races) later, appearing at the Monza press conference with his fresh burns still bandaged. He finished fourth in the Italian GP, despite being, by his own admission, absolutely petrified. F1 journalist Nigel Roebuck recalls seeing Lauda in the pits, peeling the blood-soaked bandages off his scarred scalp. He also had to wear a specially adapted AGV crash helmet so as to not be in too much discomfort.'

Can’t have been that good if he made it to 90

https://gizmodo.com/5905648/woman-kills-man-squeezing-his-testicles

So, I was reading about American cyclist Lawson Craddock, who broke his shoulder on the opening stage of this year's Tour De France. This would be enough to make most mere mortals quit the race on the spot, but pro-cyclists know how to suffer and Craddock has kept going, in agony, through nine stages and is still in the race. This made me think of other examples of sportsmen battling through adversity. For example rugby's Wayne Shelford didn't let having his scrotum stapled back together stop him completing a match. Not did Japanese Olympic gymnast Shun Fujimoto consider a broken knee any good reason to deter him from taking part in the rings exercise, achieving a perfect dismount from eight feet above the ground. Anyway, I thought I'd start a thread about sports men and women who, for better or worse, fight their way through the pain barrier. Feel free to post contemporary and historical examples here.

With Wolders' s death only main cast survivor from Laredo is William Smith (1933).

He's a rebel getting past 27.

And of course this.

San Fran 49ers All Pro safety Ronnie Lott had his pinkie finger with multiple fractures during the playoffs and played the next game anyway, then rather than have reconstructive surgery he had the thing amputated as not to lose playing time the next season recovering. SC

Unlike other remarks, I was on top of this guy’s health and I felt an easy obit, he’s a pretty big name in jazz.....but I simply felt his touring was an indication he would scoot through 2018. Didn’t think it was his year. Anyway well done whoever had him. SC

Perhaps not what you were looking for, but in 1923 Frank Hayes and his horse, Sweet Kiss, were victorious in a steeplechase after Hayes died mid-race.

A bull rider died from injuries received during a Wyoming rodeo more than a week ago. Jason Blasdel, of Fruita, Colorado, was severely injured at the Platte River Rodeo on July 7. He suffered internal bleeding and died on July 8. Blasdel, 30, leaves behind a wife and two young children. Fundraising efforts for the family are underway at Western Slope Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction. I've attached the photo, for some reason it struck me poorly. Sad to think those little girls' hearts are broken. I know....all these deaths leave someone saddened, and even kids left behind, for some reason this one got to me. SC

Chow Kwai Lam, a well-known figure in Malaysian football, died yesterday. He was 76. The former national player and coach, who had previously survived three strokes in 1995, 2000 and 2013, died at the Ampang Puteri Hospital in Selangor at 11am. Chow was among the biggest names in Malaysian football, having represented the national team from 1965-1971, and was the captain of the 1965 Merdeka Tournament squad. He also coached the national team in 1978 before taking the reins at Selangor from 1979-1983. He then moved to coach Sarawak in 1984, and Kuala Lumpur in three stints - 1987-1989, 1992, and 1995-1998. He helped Kuala Lumpur win three straight Malaysia Cups from 1987-1989. SC

Mike Kudla, an All-Big Ten defensive end and Ohio State’s defensive most valuable player in 2005, has died at age 34. SC

Blows my mind that in 2014 an American TV station decided to build a reality TV show around Caprice. Yeah, that Caprice. Anyway, her Ladies of London co-star Annabelle Neilson - who was also a minor aristocrat and friends with Kate Moss, apparently - dead at 49.

It shouldn't read 'none of the above' but should read 'no more deaths this year' and be applied throughout the whole year.

Aye, last time that happened was back in 2011 with basically 5 months between the deaths of Betty Ford and Harry Morgan.

Why why WHYYy.... not Lord Carrington! All those fond memories I have of thee..... This one hurts like no other.

*checks forum* Thread police? EDIT - Man, that cat looks pissed. Bet it ate the photographer soon after.

1962 survivors below - that's the last list for now. 1962 – 155 survivors Soviet Union 9 MF Nikolai Manoshin 6 March 1938 (aged 24) 11 MF Yozhef Sabo 1 March 1940 (aged 22) 15 FW Viktor Kanevski 3 October 1936 (aged 25) 19 FW Viktor Ponedelnik 22 May 1937 (aged 25) Yugoslavia 1 GK Milutin Šoškić 31 December 1937 (aged 24) 3 DF Fahrudin Jusufi 8 December 1939 (aged 22) 6 DF Vladica Popović 17 March 1935 (aged 27) 8 MF Dragoslav Šekularac 8 November 1937 (aged 24) 11 FW Josip Skoblar 12 March 1941 (aged 21) 15 MF Željko Matuš 9 August 1935 (aged 26) 19 GK Mirko Stojanović 11 June 1939 (aged 22) 21 FW Nikola Stipić 18 December 1937 (aged 24) 22 MF Aleksandar Ivoš 28 June 1931 (aged 30) Uruguay 4 DF Omar Méndez 11 May 1938 (aged 24) 7 FW Domingo Pérez 7 June 1936 (aged 25) 8 MF Julio César Cortés 29 March 1941 (aged 21) 12 GK Luis Maidana 24 February 1934 (aged 28) 14 DF Rubén Soria 23 January 1935 (aged 27) 16 DF Rubén González 17 July 1939 (aged 22) 18 MF Ronald Langón 6 August 1939 (aged 22) 22 FW Guillermo Escalada 24 April 1936 (aged 26) Colombia 1 GK Efraín Sánchez 27 February 1926 (aged 36) 2 GK Achito Vivas 1 March 1934 (aged 28) 10 MF Rolando Serrano 13 November 1938 (aged 23) 12 MF Hernando Tovar 7 June 1938 (aged 23) 13 FW Germán Aceros 30 September 1938 (aged 23) 18 FW Eusebio Escobar 2 July 1936 (aged 25) 19 FW Delio Gamboa 28 January 1936 (aged 26) 22 FW Jairo Arias 2 November 1938 (aged 23) West Germany 1 GK Hans Tilkowski 12 July 1935 (aged 26) 3 DF Karl-Heinz Schnellinger 31 March 1939 (aged 23) 4 DF Willi Schulz 4 October 1938 (aged 23) 5 DF Leo Wilden 3 July 1936 (aged 25) 7 MF Willi Koslowski 17 February 1937 (aged 25) 9 FW Uwe Seeler 5 November 1936 (aged 25) 15 MF Willi Giesemann 2 September 1937 (aged 24) 18 MF Günther Herrmann 1 September 1939 (aged 22) 21 GK Günter Sawitzki 22 November 1932 (aged 29) 22 GK Wolfgang Fahrian 31 May 1941 (aged 20) Chile 2 DF Luis Eyzaguirre 22 June 1939 (aged 22) 4 DF Sergio Navarro 20 November 1936 (aged 25) 5 DF Carlos Contreras 7 October 1938 (aged 23) 8 MF Jorge Toro 10 January 1939 (aged 23) 11 FW Leonel Sánchez 25 April 1936 (aged 26) 12 GK Adán Godoy 26 November 1936 (aged 25) 13 DF Sergio Valdés 22 June 1935 (aged 26) 15 DF Manuel Rodríguez 18 January 1938 (aged 24) 16 DF Humberto Cruz 6 December 1934 (aged 27) 19 FW Braulio Musso 24 May 1937 (aged 25) 20 FW Carlos Campos 14 February 1937 (aged 25) 22 GK Manuel Astorga 16 March 1943 (aged 19) Italy 1 GK Lorenzo Buffon (captain) 19 December 1929 (aged 32) 2 DF Giacomo Losi 9 November 1935 (aged 26) 3 MF Luigi Radice 15 January 1935 (aged 27) 6 MF Giovanni Trapattoni 17 March 1939 (aged 23) 8 FW Humberto Maschio 20 February 1933 (aged 29) 9 FW José Altafini 24 July 1938 (aged 23) 11 FW Giampaolo Menichelli 29 June 1938 (aged 23) 13 GK Enrico Albertosi 2 November 1939 (aged 22) 14 FW Gianni Rivera 18 August 1943 (aged 18) 15 FW Angelo Sormani 3 July 1939 (aged 22) 16 DF Enzo Robotti 13 June 1935 (aged 26) 19 DF Francesco Janich 27 March 1937 (aged 25) Switzerland 9 FW Roberto Frigerio 16 May 1938 (aged 24) 10 DF Fritz Kehl 12 July 1937 (aged 24) 12 FW Marcel Vonlanthen 8 September 1933 (aged 28) 19 FW Gilbert Rey 30 October 1930 (aged 31) 20 MF Roger Vonlanthen 5 December 1930 (aged 31) 21 GK Antonio Permunian 15 August 1930 (aged 31) 22 GK Kurt Stettler 21 August 1932 (aged 29) Brazil 9 FW Coutinho 11 June 1943 (aged 18) 10 FW Pelé 23 October 1940 (aged 21) 11 FW Pepe 25 February 1935 (aged 27) 12 DF Jair Marinho 17 July 1936 (aged 25) 15 DF Altair 21 January 1938 (aged 24) 17 MF Mengálvio 17 December 1939 (aged 22) 18 FW Jair da Costa 9 July 1940 (aged 21) 20 FW Amarildo 29 June 1939 (aged 22) 21 FW Zagallo 9 August 1931 (aged 30) Czechoslovakia 2 DF Jan Lála 10 September 1936 (aged 25) 7 MF Jozef Štibrányi 11 April 1940 (aged 22) 8 FW Adolf Scherer 5 May 1938 (aged 24) 9 FW Pavol Molnár 13 February 1936 (aged 26) 10 FW Jozef Adamec 26 February 1942 (aged 20) 11 FW Josef Jelínek 9 January 1941 (aged 21) 14 FW Václav Mašek 21 March 1941 (aged 21) 16 DF Titus Buberník 12 October 1933 (aged 28) 18 FW Josef Kadraba 29 September 1933 (aged 28) Mexico 1 GK Antonio Carbajal (captain) 7 June 1929 (aged 32) 2 DF Jesús del Muro 30 November 1937 (aged 24) 3 DF Guillermo Sepúlveda 28 February 1934 (aged 28) 4 DF José Villegas 20 June 1934 (aged 27) 7 FW Alfredo del Águila 3 January 1935 (aged 27) 11 FW Isidoro Díaz 14 March 1940 (aged 22) 13 DF Arturo Chaires 14 March 1937 (aged 25) 14 MF Pedro Romero 12 April 1937 (aged 25) 15 DF Ignacio Jáuregui 31 July 1938 (aged 23) 16 MF Salvador Farfán 22 June 1932 (aged 29) 17 FW Felipe Ruvalcaba 16 February 1941 (aged 21) 18 FW Alfredo Hernández 18 June 1935 (aged 26) 21 FW Alberto Baeza 6 December 1938 (aged 23) Spain 1 GK José Araquistáin 4 March 1937 (aged 25) 2 GK Salvador Sadurní 3 April 1941 (aged 21) 3 GK Carmelo 6 December 1930 (aged 31) 4 FW Enrique Collar 2 November 1934 (aged 27) 5 MF Luis del Sol 6 April 1935 (aged 27) FW Francisco Gento 21 October 1933 (aged 28) 12 MF Joaquín Peiró 29 January 1936 (aged 26) 13 DF Pachín 28 December 1938 (aged 23) 16 DF Severino Reija 25 November 1938 (aged 23) 17 DF Rodri 8 March 1934 (aged 28) 0 18 MF Adelardo 26 September 1939 (aged 22) 19 DF José Santamaría 31 July 1929 (aged 32) 21 FW Luis Suárez 2 May 1935 (aged 27) 22 MF Martí Vergés 8 March 1934 (aged 28) Hungary 3 DF Kálmán Mészöly 16 July 1941 (aged 20) 8 FW János Göröcs 8 May 1939 (aged 23) 11 FW Máté Fenyvesi 20 September 1933 (aged 28) 12 DF Kálmán Sóvári 21 December 1940 (aged 21) 13 DF Kálmán Ihász 6 December 1941 (aged 20 17 FW Gyula Rákosi 9 October 1938 (aged 23)) 20 FW László Bödör 17 August 1933 (aged 28) 21 GK Antal Szentmihályi 3 June 1937 (aged 24) England 5 DF Peter Swan 8 October 1936 (aged 25) . 6 MF Ron Flowers 28 July 1934 (aged 27) 8 FW Jimmy Greaves 20 February 1940 (aged 22) 1 FW Bobby Charlton 11 October 1937 (aged 24) 15 DF Maurice Norman 8 May 1934 (aged 28) 17 MF Bryan Douglas 27 May 1934 (aged 28) 18 FW Roger Hunt 20 July 1938 (aged 23) 19 FW Alan Peacock 29 October 1937 (aged 24). 20 MF George Eastham 23 September 1936 (aged 25) Argentina 3 DF Silvio Marzolini 4 October 1940 (aged 21) 5 MF Federico Sacchi 9 August 1936 (aged 25) 6 DF Raúl Páez 26 May 1937 (aged 25) 8 FW Martín Pando 26 December 1934 (aged 27) 9 FW Marcelo Pagani 19 August 1941 (aged 20) 10 FW José Sanfilippo 4 May 1935 (aged 27) 14 DF Alberto Mariotti 23 August 1935 (aged 26) 16 MF Antonio Rattín 16 May 1937 (aged 25) 17 DF Rafael Albrecht 28 August 1941 (aged 20) 20 FW Juan Carlos Oleniak 4 March 1942 (aged 20) 21 MF Ramón Abeledo 29 April 1937 (aged 25) 22 FW Alberto González 21 August 1941 (aged 20) Bulgaria 3 DF Ivan Dimitrov 14 May 1935 (aged 27) 4 MF Stoyan Kitov 27 August 1938 (aged 23) 5 DF Dimitar Kostov 26 July 1936 (aged 25) 8 DF Dimitar Dimov 13 December 1937 (aged 24) 1 FW Dimitar Yakimov 12 July 1941 (aged 20) 12 DF Dobromir Zhechev 12 November 1942 (aged 19) 16 MF Aleksandar Kostov 5 March 1938 (aged 24)] 19 FW Dinko Dermendzhiev 2 June 1941 (aged 20) 22 FW Georgi Nikolov 1 May 1931 (aged 31)

According to the show, Tolkien was her uni tutor. She received the highest ever award for her course, later equalled only by UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Also, from the way she described herself she is what people nowadays call an "asexual". In other words, she's having nun of it.

Whenever you see someone doing a crossword puzzle, say to them, '7 up is lemonade'.