What is the greatest single achievement in sports?

Earl Strickland running a true 11 racks on that table under those circumstances with a chance to make in a couple hours what a top player would make in 20 years.

For me objectively this is the single greatest feat by an individual in sports history and I don't think what Kerry Strug did(saw this mentioned a couple times) can not come close to comparing.
 
simplestroke said:
Right that's why it's such an amazing feat. The Soviets beat our (US) professionals at the time pretty handily if I'm not mistaking?
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It was an amazing feat.

I am sticking with Khan winning a major championship without losing a single point ! Not sure the exact format but he won 11-0, 11-0, 11-0, 11-0, 11-0 round after round ! Nobody scored a point against him.

Dave
 
Europe 7 in a row at Mosconi Cup lol

But seriously....

Buster Douglas beating Tyson

Leicester City winning the English Premier League (they were 5000/1!!)
 
RakRunr said:
"What do you consider the single greatest achievement in sports?"
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If only there was a term for an achievement in sports far, far beyond
anything anyone has ever done.....ohh wait, there is: Beamonesque

There really can be no other answer.

Regards, Dave
 
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Double-Dave said:
If only there was a term for an achievement in sports far, far beyond
anything anyone has ever done.....ohh wait, there is: Beamonesque

There really can be no other answer.

Regards, Dave
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I dunno Dave, it was done a mile and a half above sea level...

In athletics there are a few special athletes, probably two stand out for me for their achievements:

Usain Bolt and Sergei Bubka

Both re-wrote the record books
 
bwally said:
Wayne Gretzky's 50 goals in 39 games and his all time scoring record. This is from (me) a Canadian who doesn't like hockey..

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Wayne Gretzky still holds in the neighborhood of 60 NHL records. He changed the game. Ever heard of "The Gretzky Rule"? He was so dominant in 4-on-4, or 4-on-3 situations because of the open ice, that the NHL began waiving coincidental penalties and not sending a man from either team to the box. The rule was criticized as punishing teams/players that once had an advantage in this situation and was reversed some 7 years later.
 
TATE said:
I would say Nadia Comaneci . No gymnast had ever scored a perfect 10 before her yet Nadia scored a perfect 10 in 7 events.

2nd place for me is Byron Nelson winning 11 PGA golf tournaments in a row (1945). I wouldn't think it was possible and I don't think that will ever be done again.

Earl's 11 rack run of 9 ball on demand for $1,000,000 is right up there.
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Keep in mind, a lot of guys, like one Mr. Ben Hogan were serving in WWII while Byron Nelson was winning those tourneys. Mr. Nelson had a blood disorder that kept him out of military service.
 
Grantstew said:
I dunno Dave, it was done a mile and a half above sea level...

In athletics there are a few special athletes, probably two stand out for me for their achievements:

Usain Bolt and Sergei Bubka

Both re-wrote the record books
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The question was single greatest achievement.

Bubka took it from 5.91 to 6.14 in like 15 steps, never more then 6cm in 1 step
Usain took it from 9.74 to 9.58 in 3 steps, never more then .11 second in 1 step
Beamon took it from 8.35 to 8.90 in 1 step, 55cm in 1 step

It's not even close to being close. Bolt would have needed to go from 9.74
to something like 9.11 in 1 step to get the same % improvement Bubka from
5.91 to 6.29.
 
The greatest thing ever to happen in sports was the

INVENTION OF BEER.

It makes all sports more enjoyable, it makes the best commercials during any sporting event, its the best thing after a bad game of Pool, it's the best thing after a great game of Pool. I enjoy two beers the most after a 15 mile hike thru the mountains, after some basketball and so on.

Sports are driven by yeast, hops and barly and we know that = BEER.

My 2nd vote goes to Al Bundy.
 
CuesDirectly said:
My 2nd vote goes to Al Bundy.
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Whoooooooooaaaaaaa Bundy!!!!! :thumbup:

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Flop

Dick Fosbury, the Fosbury Flop completely changed the way the high jump had been
done since the Olympics began in 1896, or the way it had ever been done for the
last 2000 years or so.
Jack
 
MVPCues said:
Miracle on Ice should be in the discussion for sure. The entire team was made up of amateurs, average age of 21. Soviets were seasoned pros that won 6 of the last 7 gold medals. The Soviet team beat the NHL all stars in a challenge match 6-0 and was 5 -3-1 against NHL teams in the same year. The Soviet team was 27-1-1 in the four Olympics leading up to 1980.
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i would have to agree with this. this was literally one of the greatest things the world had seen at the time. there are a ton of great examples in here, but the miracle on ice takes the cake for me.
 
CuesDirectly said:
The greatest thing ever to happen in sports was the

INVENTION OF BEER.
It makes all sports more enjoyable, it makes the best commercials during any sporting event, its the best thing after a bad game of Pool, it's the best thing after a great game of Pool. I enjoy two beers the most after a 15 mile hike thru the mountains, after some basketball and so on.
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I agree. How the hell a man could sit through 9 innings of baseball, without being half-drunk, is beyond me.
Or, closer to home, watching Pagulayan play One Pocket. :rolleyes:
 
What about that lady who broke the world record time for swimming the English channel, possibly the only sporting world record ever held by a woman where both sexes times were taken into consideration.
 
Some feats have to be considered in context.

A man hit a golf ball 360 yards....
...not all that unusual, you say?

well, it was with a hickory-shafted club....
...with a leather-covered feather-filled golf ball...
...Scotland....sometime in the 1800s


video to follow.....:)
 
garczar said:
Add to that his wailing on Robin Ventura when RV charged the mound.:grin:
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Nolan Ryan will forever be a hero down here in the Lone Star state. Let's not overlook the fact that he not only totally embarrassed Ventura and pitched a no-hitter at age 44, but he also had SEVEN total no-hitters in his career....a record that will probably never be broken.

Speaking of baseball achievements, all interested should Google the name Joe "Iron Man" McGinnity if you want to be awed by pitching statistics.

Maniac
 
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