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Athletes Who Excelled in Individual and Team Competition
Athletes Who Excelled in Individual and Team Competition
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Many sports run individual and team events side by side: singles and doubles, individual races and relays, the all-around final and the team final, a golfer's majors and the Ryder Cup. Excelling...
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Sportspeople with Remarkable Records at World Championships
Sportspeople with Remarkable Records at World Championships
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A world title means different things in different sports. Some championships come once a season, some every year and some only every other year, and a few, like Formula One's, are decided over a...
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Archers Who Excelled When the Pressure Was Highest
Archers Who Excelled When the Pressure Was Highest
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Archery looks calm on television, but an Olympic final is decided by a few millimetres, a ticking clock and sometimes a single arrow in a shoot-off. These are the archers whose records hold up...
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Olympic Weightlifters with Extraordinary Competitive Consistency
Olympic Weightlifters with Extraordinary Competitive Consistency
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Weightlifting rewards the lifter who makes their attempts count: three tries in the snatch, three in the clean and jerk, and a total that decides the medals. This list picks lifters who did that...
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Rowers with Remarkable Careers Across Boat Classes
Rowers with Remarkable Careers Across Boat Classes
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Rowing has two techniques and many boats. Scullers hold an oar in each hand, in singles, doubles and quads; sweep rowers hold one oar with both hands, in pairs, fours and eights, and need a...
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Olympians Who Excelled in More Than One Sport
Olympians Who Excelled in More Than One Sport
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Switching sports at the highest level is rare, and doing it well is rarer still. Every athlete here meets the same test: they competed at the Olympic or Paralympic Games in two or more different...
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Sportspeople Who Built Long Careers Through Adaptation
Sportspeople Who Built Long Careers Through Adaptation
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Lasting a long time is not the same as staying good. The people on this list stayed at or near the top for unusually long careers because they changed something: a new position, a rebuilt...
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Snowboarders Who Expanded Competitive Trick Vocabulary
Snowboarders Who Expanded Competitive Trick Vocabulary
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In freestyle snowboarding a new trick often exists twice: first in a filmed session, then, sometimes years later, in a judged contest where it has to be landed under pressure and scored. This list...
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Wrestlers Who Built Exceptional International Careers
Wrestlers Who Built Exceptional International Careers
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Olympic wrestling rewards the people who can stay at the top for a decade, not just peak for one tournament. This list collects freestyle, Greco-Roman and women's wrestlers whose Olympic and world...
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Table Tennis Players Who Changed the Game's Style
Table Tennis Players Who Changed the Game's Style
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Table tennis changes faster than most racket sports because equipment and rules change it: sponge rubber in the 1950s, the larger 40 mm ball in 2000, 11-point games from 2001, the ban on hiding...
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Combat Sports Coaches Who Developed Multiple Champions
Combat Sports Coaches Who Developed Multiple Champions
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A single champion can make a coach's name; several champions, in different weights or eras, say something about the method. This list covers boxing, MMA, wrestling and kickboxing coaches with...
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Coaches Who Succeeded with Very Different Teams
Coaches Who Succeeded with Very Different Teams
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Winning once can be a matter of inheriting the right players. Winning again with a different club, a different country, a different sex or a different sport shows a method that travels. This list...
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Goalkeepers Who Changed Their Position
Goalkeepers Who Changed Their Position
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A goalkeeper can influence a match long before anyone shoots. These 25 examples trace how the role expanded through sweeping, distribution, command of the area, specialised techniques and even...
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High Jumpers Who Made Technique a Talking Point
High Jumpers Who Made Technique a Talking Point
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No athletics event has changed shape like the high jump. In living memory jumpers went over the bar with the scissors, the western roll, the straddle and finally the Fosbury Flop, and even within...
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Asian Footballers Who Opened New Career Paths
Asian Footballers Who Opened New Career Paths
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Before a scout takes a chance on a player from a new country, someone usually has to show that the move can work. These Asian footballers, men and women, made documented breakthroughs: the first...
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Rugby Forwards Whose Work Changed Matches
Rugby Forwards Whose Work Changed Matches
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Forwards win rugby matches in places television rarely lingers: the scrum, the lineout, the breakdown and the first tackle after a kick. This list picks props, hookers, locks and back-rowers whose...
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Surfers Whose Styles Changed Competitive Expectations
Surfers Whose Styles Changed Competitive Expectations
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Competitive surfing is judged, so what wins depends on what judges are taught to reward, and the surfers on this list changed that. Shorter boards made power turns possible; twin fins and...
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