With Christmas and New Year’s Eve around the corner, we take a look at 10 sports films worth watching during the holiday season.
ROCKY IV (1983): Rocky Balboa challenges and defeats Ivan Drago after the Soviet boxer’s brutal punches results in close friend and former rival Apollo Creed’s death
MIRACLE (2004): Based on a true incident dubbed the ‘Miracle on Ice’, in which a relatively unfancied United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union at Lake Placid in the 1980 Winter Olympics
COOL RUNNINGS (1993): Based on a true story in which a Jamaican sprinter fails to qualify for the Summer Olympics, but chooses to participate in the Winter Games instead and assembles a four-man bobsled team
ICE CASTLES (1978): Lexie”s career as a figure skater grinds to a halt after an accident leaves her partially blinded. Her boyfriend Nick, though, helps her overcome her disability
THE MIGHTY DUCKS (1992): Lawyer Gordon Bombay is sentenced to community service in the form of coaching a bottom-ranked minor hockey league team, and ends up transforming their fortunes
MYSTERY, ALASKA (1999): Another story of an underdog hockey team in which an amateur side from Mystery, Alaska challengers the fancied New York Rangers in a nationally-televised match
EDDIE THE EAGLE (2016): The story of former plasterer Michael Edwards who becomes the first British Olympic ski jumper in 60 years in 1988
BLADES OF GLORY (2007): Will Ferrell and Jon Heder star as a pair of banned figure-skaters who team up in order to be eligible to compete again
IRON WILL (1994): Based on a true story, a young man decides to enter a dog-sled race in order to provide for his widowed mother
ICE PRINCESS (2005): Casey has a passion for ice skating and takes secret lessons while her mother insists on her excelling in academics