10 shocking moments in sport
Sporting arenas have not only served as theatres of dreams but have, on many an occasion, also been stages for nightmares. Incidents ranging from the grotesque to the bizarre have taken place in cricket stadia, tennis courts and boxing rings.While many such incidents make for amusing tales, there are some that are rally tragic. Many are the events that have taken place in sporting arenas that have left spectators and the sporting community across the world shocked and baffled.Let us now take a look at ten such shocking events in the history of sport.
#1 Luis Suarez\'s biting \'act\' in 2014 WC
Although the Uruguayan striker claimed that he had merely lost his balance and tipped over Giorgio Chiellini, video footage of the 2014 World Cup match between Italy and Uruguay confirmed that Luis Suarez was indeed guilty of having bitten the Italian.
Following the incident, Suarez was handed a ban that saw him not only miss all the remaining matches in the 2014 World Cup, but a total of 39 games, including 26 games in the English Premier League. Even Chiellini dubbed the punishment 'excessively harsh' as did Digo Maradona, who, in criticising FIFA's penalty asked, 'Who did Suarez kill?'
This wasn't the first such incident to mar Suarez's career. As a striker for Liverpool in 2013, he had been accused of biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic and in 2010, playing for Ajax, he had been blamed for biting PSV's Otman Bakala.
His exemplary talent with the ball notwithstanding, Suarez's career has been riddled with controversies. In the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Suarez stopped a goal with his hand, which saw being criticised widely. When he took to the football field for the third place match against Germany in the same event, the crowd made its displeasure at him known by booing loudly whenever he was in possession of the ball.