To prove that our lives shouldn’t revolve solely around Soccer, here’s a selection of the Best Sports Pictures of 2007 by the Reuters News Pictures Service (RNPS).
I have selected the Best 20 Pictures from various sources, including La Repubblica le foto del 2007 / Sport and Reuters.com Pictures of the Year 2007. Enjoy! 
1. SOCCER – Arsenal’s Thierry Henry controls the ball as David Bentley of Blackburn Rovers looks on during their FA Cup fifth round soccer match at the Emirates Stadium in London February 17, 2007. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
2. FOOTBALL NFL – New Orleans Saints nose tackle Hollis Thomas is shown on the bench as steam rises from his head in the cold during his team’s play against the Chicago Bears in the NFL’s NFC Championship football game in Chicago January 21, 2007. REUTERS/Hans Deryk (UNITED STATES)
3. SOCCER – Iraq’s captain Younis Mahmoud celebrates after he scored against Saudi Arabia, which led the team to win their final match at the 2007 AFC Asian Cup soccer tournament at the Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta July 29, 2007. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen (INDONESIA)
4. TENNIS – Maria Sharapova of Russia reacts during her match against Casey Dellacqua of Australia at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, August 30, 2007. REUTERS/Jeff Zelevansky (UNITED STATES)
5. SOCCER – Britain’s David Beckham smiles as he holds his new team jersey during an LA Galaxy news conference introducing him as the newest member of the MLS soccer league team in Carson, California, July 13, 2007. REUTERS/Toby Melville (UNITED STATES)
6. TRACK & FIELD – Gunther Weidlinger of Austria falls during the heats of the men’s 3000 metres steeplechase at the 11th IAAF World Athletics Championship in Osaka August 26, 2007. REUTERS/David Gray (JAPAN)
7. CYCLING – Bikers fall during the eleventh stage of the Giro d’Italia cycling race, 198 km (123 miles) from Serravalle Scrivia to Pinerolo, May 23, 2007. REUTERS/Daniele La Monaca (ITALY)
8. RUGBY – From L-R, South Africa’s JP Pietersen, Percy Montgomery and Bryan Habana celebrate after their Rugby World Cup win against England in the final at the Stade de France Stadium in Saint-Denis, near Paris, October 20, 2007. REUTERS/Bernard Papon/Pool (FRANCE)
9. BOXING – Former boxing champion Dave Hilton Jr. enters the ring for his boxing match against Adam Green in Montreal May 1, 2007. Hilton won by unanimous decision. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi (CANADA)
10. ICE HOCKEY NHL – Ottawa Senators Chris Neil (L) is hit by Montreal Canadiens Francis Bouillon during the second period of NHL action in Montreal February 10, 2007. Both players were given roughing penalties on the play. REUTERS/Shaun Best (CANADA)
11. TENNIS – Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates a point against Novak Djokovic of Serbia during the men’s final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, September 9, 2007. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES)
12. FORMULA 1 – Ferrari Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland celebrates on the podium after winning the Brazilian Grand Prix at the Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo October 21, 2007. Raikkonen secured his first Formula One title by a single point on Sunday after a stirring victory in Brazil. His unexpected title triumph ended 22-year-old Briton Lewis Hamilton’s dreams of becoming the youngest champion in his debut season with McLaren. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker (BRAZIL)
13. SOCCER – Bolivian President Evo Morales controls the ball at the 19,500 feet (6,000 meters) high snow-covered Sajama peak, the highest in Bolivia, during a match with soccer fans to protest FIFA’s ban on international soccer matches at venues over 2,500 meters above sea level, June 12, 2007. FIFA says matches in oxygen-thin conditions are a health hazard and distort fair play. The ban means Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia would not be able to host international football matches, including World Cup qualifiers, in some of their largest cities. Morales is leading efforts to have the ban overturned, saying it is “nonsensical” and “discriminatory”. REUTERS/Dado Galdieri
14. SOCCER – Manchester United’s Nani (top) celebrates after scoring during their English Premier League soccer match against Tottenham Hotspur in Manchester, northern England, August 26, 2007. REUTERS/Phil Noble
15. SOCCER – Germany’s players celebrate after their win over Brazil in the final of the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer tournament at the Hongkou Football Stadium in Shanghai September 30, 2007. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA)
16. SKIING Cross Country – An aerial view shows cross country skiers racing over the frozen lake Sils during the Engadin Ski Marathon near Sils March 11, 2007. More than 9,500 skiers participated in the 42.2 km race between Maloja and S-Chanf near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
17. SKIING Biathlon – Germany’s Michael Roesch shoots during the men’s 4×7.5 km relay at the Biathlon World Cup in the eastern German town of Oberhof January 4, 2007. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
18. SWIMMING – A winter swimmer dives into a river in Heihe, northeast China’s Heilongjiang province January 24, 2007. REUTERS/China Daily
19. GOLF – Kenneth Ferrie of Britain hits from a bunker on the 7th green during a practice round for the 2007 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, April 3, 2007. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
20. BEACH VOLLEY-BALL – Anna Paula Connelly of Brazil hits a shot during a practice session one day before the FIVB Women’s Beach Volleyball Singapore Open May 23, 2007. REUTERS/Nicky Loh
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And now as a bonus, another dozen pictures with no captions. I hate to borrow an old cliché, but sometimes images speak louder than words…
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That Morales picture is wonderful, the photographer must have known as he was taking it that he had something.
(And Hollis Thomas’ head is always smoking, so that one’s not THAT cool.)
I agree Martha, that Evo Morales picture is very poignant and conveys perfectly the intentions of making a statement.
However on that particular issue, I have to agree with FIFA: high-altitude countries have an unfair advantage when their teams host games at 3,000 feet above sea level, a solution has to be found. I agree that it’s not fair that Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia don’t get to host home games, but having the other teams gasping for air isn’t fair either.
Hi Marco,
Home field advantage is a part of calcio, or any sport, for that matter. If they refused to let those countries host in stadiums over X,XXX feet, alt., then who’s to say that stadiums in very cold, or very hot climates shouldn’t be prevented from hosting as well?
I am glad that they decided to allow them to continue hosting. Anything else would be tremendously unfair, and would have far-reaching ramifications.
Vin, playing in hot/cold conditions is something all athletes are used to. Playing against teams which physiologically possess a higher red blood cell (RBC) coun’t isn’t.
High altitude requires your body to work extra hard to make oxygen available to all the tissues (oxygen rarifies the higher you go up). People who are used to live under these hypobaric conditions naturally develop a higher blood cell count over time, to compensate for oxygen rarity (more blood cells = more oxygen delivered to body tissues).
When teams who are used to live/play at sea level travel to these countries however, they don’t have sufficient time to “build up” their RBC level, which puts them at a very unfair disadvantage (something drastically worse than cold/warm acclimation differences you mentioned). Hence why an alternative solution should be found.
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