What is the greatest single achievement in sports?

PoolBum said:
I'm going to second this as the greatest achievement in one event in sports history.

Secretariat finished the 1973 Belmont Stakes in 2:24 flat, which has now been the world record for a mile and a half on a dirt track for 44 years.

The closest any other horse has come to that time in the history of the Belmont Stakes is 2:26, which would be about 10 lengths behind Secretariat.

Other records by Secretariat that may never be broken:

Winning all three Triple Crown races in record time. All three records still stand:

1:59 2/5 in the Kentucky Derby (still the track record)
1:53 in the Preakness (still the track record)
2:24 in the Belmont (still the world record)

Setting the fastest time ever in the Kentucky Derby by running each quarter mile faster than the previous one. His times for each quarter mile in the Derby were

25 1/5
24
23 4/5
23 2/5
23
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Horse racing isn't a sport and neither is nascar

JC
 
jay helfert said:
Earl's eleven racks is the most amazing thing I've seen in pool and I was right there watching it. He did it on the first day of the tournament on a tight pocket table (4.5") when no one else was running even three racks!

In other sports the Miracle On Ice stands out. In horse racing, Silky Sullivan winning from thirty lengths back was incredible and he did it time and time again. The huge underdog Cassius Clay knocking out Sonny Liston (I bet on him at 10-1) and then Buster Douglas taking down an out of shape Mike Tyson (he was 30-1 at one time!). And how about them Cubbies! :thumbup:
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Holyfield was some 20-1 underdog against Tyson too.
Holy's promoter, Dino Duva bet some 200K on Holy won .

How about Henry Armstrong hold THREE of the eight wold boxing titles AT THE SAME TIME???
He won the featherweight belt, went up to the welterweight and won the belt there then went down to the lightweight division and won the title there too.
There were NO JUNIOR divisions then and there were only 8 world titles.
AND was robbed against Ceferino Garcia ( disputed draw ) when he challenged Garcia for the middleweight title.

NOBODY is going to come close to that in boxing now. Even if Floyd and Pac have won 4 lineal titles each or Pac winning 8 division titles.

Cy Young winning 511 games is never to get sniffed at by anyone. Walter Johnson is next at 417.
 
manny pacquiao, first and only boxer to win world titles in eight different weight divisions
 
Robert58 said:
In a Super Bowl Yes. But nobody can out do the Houston Oilers. They were leading by 32 points at Halftime in a play-off game and lost.
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That was brutal!:eek:


Super Bowl LI was epic. I am glad I watched it for sure. Now Brady can start working on rings for his other hand!:D I don't think it is unrealistic to think he could win another one.

FWIW I loved seeing Belichick on NFL Primetime on ESPN with Berman. That was a cool moment there:smile:
 
arps said:
manny pacquiao, first and only boxer to win world titles in eight different weight divisions
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Hate to break it to you but Pac did not win an official belt at 126.
And his title fight against Margarito at 154 was a farce.
Vacant title and neither one deserved to fight for it.
Worse, they fought at 150.
Pac is the first man to win 4 lineal belts though.
Now has won 5 lineal titles.
 
SJDinPHX said:
I can't imagine anything in any sport, that will ever top Brady and the Patriots comeback in SB-LI..In pool for instance, Strickland would have to run 50 racks to equal it! ;)
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Yeah ... the only thing that game was missing was .... Bundy.

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Greg LeMond

Greg Lemond;

1986 - becomes the 1st american to win the Tour De France
1987 - Was shot in a hunting accident causing him to miss two years during recovery
1989 - Wins the TDF again in incredibly dramatic fashion
1990 - Wins a 3rd TDF
 
Tramp Steamer said:
You're joking, right?
Horse racing is the sport of Kings. Auto racing has always been a sport.
Pool, on the other hand, is a game.
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Football is a game....but the Patriots made sporting history whilst playing it....:confused:

Chess is a game....Hawking can win a game of chess....
...pool requires hand/eye coordination and good reflexes...hence it's a sport.

But semantics can be confusing...

A Canuck was out hunting.....a naked woman jumped out from behind a tree...
...sez...."I'm game for anything."
...so he shot her.....

Not much of a sport, was he?
 
CJH said:
Greg Lemond;

1986 - becomes the 1st american to win the Tour De France
1987 - Was shot in a hunting accident causing him to miss two years during recovery
1989 - Wins the TDF again in incredibly dramatic fashion
1990 - Wins a 3rd TDF
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Definitely my cycling hero (I used to race as a teenager and then for UCLA).

Lemond could have easily won five TDF's, but for the ridiculous stuff that happened with Hinault in '85 and the hunting accident.
 
I think Jacky Ickx winning 24 hours of Le Mans six times is worth mentioning.

If you don't think racing is a sport, get behind the wheel of a car and drive petal-to-the-metal for that long...and then tell me that pool is a sport.

Maniac
 
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jay helfert said:
The second was when Robbie Madison did a motorcycle jump in Vegas onto the roof of a ten story building. And then he jumped back down!
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......speaking of motorcycle jumps, I must add to the conversation the Jump by Evel Knievel at Caesar's Palace.


(using a old-school Harley hunk of metal, not a modern motocross bike, which makes a HUGE difference)
 
Tiger Woods, owning all four majors at the same time.. aka The Tiger Slam.

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