It’s tax return day, so this is merely a reflection in video on some of the sporting events of the year I was born: 1968.
It was an Olympic year – Mexico’s:
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It was a good year for Manchester United, too:
Jackie Stewart beat Graham Hill in the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring in the most astonishing conditions:
It was a year that allowed you around Le Mans with Stirling Moss in a Ford GT40:
Here’s the actual race:
It was a good year in aerosport, too:
But that wasn’t a patch on the cricket:
The year saw the sad death of Jim Clark at Hockenheim:
And the boxer Jess Willard passed away. Here he is knocking out Jack Johnson: