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Athletes Who Excelled in Individual and Team Competition
Athletes Who Excelled in Individual and Team Competition
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7 in common: Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Michael Phelps and 5 more
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...
Sports
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Pole Vaulters Who Expanded the Event's Possibilities
Pole Vaulters Who Expanded the Event's Possibilities
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2 in common: Armand Duplantis and Sergey Bubka
The pole vault is the athletics event most shaped by its equipment. Bamboo gave way to steel and then fibreglass and carbon fibre, landing pits went from sand to foam, and women were only admitted...
Sports
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Male Celebrities Who Expanded Red Carpet Fashion
Male Celebrities Who Expanded Red Carpet Fashion
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In common: Lewis Hamilton
For decades the men's red carpet meant a black tuxedo with little room for change. The men here widened it, not with one viral outfit but with years of experimenting: gowns and skirts, sheer...
Celebrities
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Cyclists Who Mastered the Spring Classics
Cyclists Who Mastered the Spring Classics
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2 in common: Peter Sagan and Marianne Vos
The spring classics are not one kind of race. Milan-San Remo is a near-300 km waiting game decided on two short climbs; Flanders is a war of position on cobbled bergs; Paris-Roubaix punishes bikes...
Sports
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Athletes Whose Rivalries Made Both Careers More Interesting
Athletes Whose Rivalries Made Both Careers More Interesting
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2 in common: Lewis Hamilton and Allyson Felix
The best rivalries show more than who won: they push both athletes to change, and they give fans a reason to watch every meeting. Each entry here is one athlete, with the rival who defined part of...
Sports
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Sprinters Whose Technique Is Worth Studying
Sprinters Whose Technique Is Worth Studying
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2 in common: Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix
Sprinting looks simple until you slow the footage down. This list picks sprinters whose starts, acceleration, top-speed mechanics or bend running reward a closer look, from Jesse Owens to the...
Sports
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Judoka with Signature Techniques Worth Watching
Judoka with Signature Techniques Worth Watching
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In common: Teddy Riner
Judo is easier to enjoy once you know what to look for, and the best way in is to follow fighters whose favourite technique is visible from the first grip. These judoka each made one throw, pin or...
Sports
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Surfers Whose Styles Changed Competitive Expectations
Surfers Whose Styles Changed Competitive Expectations
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In common: Stephanie Gilmore
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...
Sports
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Squash Players with Exceptional Match Intelligence
Squash Players with Exceptional Match Intelligence
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In common: Jansher Khan
Squash is chess at running speed: the winner is usually the player who controls the T, moves the opponent to all four corners and chooses the right moment to attack. This list picks players from...
Sports
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Badminton Players with Extraordinary Court Coverage
Badminton Players with Extraordinary Court Coverage
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In common: Lin Dan
A badminton smash can leave the racket at well over 400 kilometres an hour, and the shuttle then slows sharply, so covering the court is about reading the opponent as much as speed: the split...
Sports
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Women Cyclists Who Shaped Modern Road Racing
Women Cyclists Who Shaped Modern Road Racing
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In common: Marianne Vos
Women's road racing has been reinvented several times: national time-trial scenes when there was little else, a short-lived women's Tour in the 1980s, the first Olympic road race in 1984, a thin...
Sports
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Gymnasts Whose Signature Skills Changed the Sport
Gymnasts Whose Signature Skills Changed the Sport
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In common: Simone Biles
In gymnastics, a new skill is named after the first gymnast to perform it successfully at a major international competition and have it accepted into the Code of Points. That makes naming a matter...
Sports
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Athletes Who Became Influential Sporting Administrators
Athletes Who Became Influential Sporting Administrators
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In common: Sergey Bubka
Some of the most consequential careers in sport began on the field and continued in boardrooms: running the Olympic movement, governing bodies, national ministries and the organisations that...
Sports
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Distance Runners Who Excelled on Track and Road
Distance Runners Who Excelled on Track and Road
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In common: Kenenisa Bekele
Plenty of track stars have tried the roads and plenty of road runners have dabbled on the track. This list is for the smaller group with serious achievements in both: global titles or world...
Sports
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Cross-Country Runners Who Thrived in Tough Conditions
Cross-Country Runners Who Thrived in Tough Conditions
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In common: Kenenisa Bekele
Cross-country is distance running with the variables left in: mud, hills, logs, heat, tight turns and fields so big that position in the first kilometre matters. Bad weather alone does not make a...
Sports
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Marathon Runners with Distinctive Career Stories
Marathon Runners with Distinctive Career Stories
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In common: Kenenisa Bekele
There is more than one way to become a great marathon runner. Some arrived from the track with world titles already won, some built careers around championship tactics, some chased the clock...
Sports
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Archers Who Excelled When the Pressure Was Highest
Archers Who Excelled When the Pressure Was Highest
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More from pitch_side
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...
Sports
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Olympic Weightlifters with Extraordinary Competitive Consistency
Olympic Weightlifters with Extraordinary Competitive Consistency
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More from pitch_side
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...
Sports
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Rowers with Remarkable Careers Across Boat Classes
Rowers with Remarkable Careers Across Boat Classes
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More from pitch_side
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...
Sports
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Tennis Players Who Built Great Careers Without a Grand Slam Singles Title
Tennis Players Who Built Great Careers Without a Grand Slam Singles Title
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On a similar theme
A Grand Slam singles title means winning the men's or women's singles at the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon or the US Open. Doubles and mixed doubles majors, Olympic medals and the...
Sports
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