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The stolen trophy that honours 'the world's most cheerful loser'
Key takeaways
- In December 1930, weeks after his fifth and final attempt at winning the greatest prize in yacht racing, Sir Thomas Lipton was presented with an honour unique in the history of sport.
- It was not the America's Cup, the silver winner's trophy he had been chasing for three decades.
- Instead it was something far more meaningful - a respectful and affectionate tribute, paid for by public subscription, to a Scot who had won the hearts of the American public as the "world's most cheerful loser".
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Calum Watson BBC Scotland Bettmann/Getty Sir Thomas Lipton acquired a lot of sporting trophies in his lifetime, though none so unique as the Lipton Cup The theft of an 18-carat gold trophy from Glasgow's Riverside Museum, revealed last week, has made news headlines but the Lipton Cup already had an extraordinary story long before a thief made away with it.
In December 1930, weeks after his fifth and final attempt at winning the greatest prize in yacht racing, Sir Thomas Lipton was presented with an honour unique in the history of sport.
It was not the America's Cup, the silver winner's trophy he had been chasing for three decades.
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