It's often overlooked, but sport is as much about losing as it is about winning - and the former can arguably generate even more dramatic images.
This Guardian gallery bears out the truth of Greg Whitmore's assertion that Chris Smith "wanted to portray the moments when dreams are broken as well as when they are realised". The late photographer's most powerful pictures are of sporting superstars - Muhammad Ali, Barry McGuigan and Seve Ballesteros - suffering crises of confidence, captured intimately at the moment that circumstances are forcing them to face up to their own fallibility.
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