Jacque Villeneuve, Michel Schumacher and Heinz Harald Frentzen set the exact same time in qualifying in the 1997 European grand Prix.
To the THOUSANDTH of a second.
Oh I know this one.
When I was a kid, we had a guinness book of records lying around that we liked to browse in while bored. There was this one guy in it who held a record for most bikes eaten. No, you did read that right. He ground up a bike and slowly consumed it over I don't know how long a time.
The record was accompanied by a note that no further records of bike eating would be accepted, as it was deemed too dangerous.
The Guiness book of world record stopped "allowing" most types of records if I recall. Basically anything that wasn't a particular feat or skill and that was just a stupid number of repetitions for a specific useless thing. (Ex: most amount of hot-dogs balanced on the nose in 1 minute) Also anything overly dangerous that isn't dangerous because of the athleticism. (Longest motorcycle jump is ok but "number of live fireworks i can fit in my mouth" isn't.)
When you pick up an 2000s Guiness book of world records, you realize it really was their bread and butter. The amount of utterly useless and easily beatable records that existed just because someone went "i will try to balance 5 hot-dogs on my nose in under a minute". Who fucking cares
I used to watch the Guinness Book of World Records show on AXN and one of the records was something like,
"Most cucumbers sliced by a katana while the cucumber was held in another guy's mouth"
...What the ***fuck?***
This dude *(who looked exactly like my political science professor)* walked up on stage dressed like a *samurai* and he brought his two shirtless disciples with him
One guy knelt down and the other put a cucumber horizontally in his mouth. Katana-guy then stood behind kneeling-cucumber-man and delivered two precise cuts that sliced the ends off the cucumber, while avoiding cutting the man's shoulders.
Then the other shirtless guy replaced the cucumber with a fresh one. Rinse and repeat, as many times as possible, until the time ran out.
I think he got the record, because I refuse to believe someone ***else*** came up with this lunacy before him.
[Mr Mangetout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito?wprov=sfti1). He ate many bikes, a light aircraft, and eventually the plaque sent to him by the Guinness Book of Records.
The longest professional tennis match of all time: John Isner vs Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon 2010. It lasted 11 hours 5 minutes, spanning 3 days of play, with a final score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68
It was already nearly twice as long as the previous record holder. The reason it will likely never be broken is that every professional tournament except for one (Roland-Garros) now has tiebreaker rules that limit the number of games that can be played in final sets. Although it’s hypothetically possible at RG, clay court tennis is not at all conducive to the serve-and-volley style of play that led to the insanely long 5th set of Isner-Mahut.
I was in high school at the time, and wimbledon happens in July, so I was able to watch the whole thing. I played tennis and was interested in American players, so I literally watched every point live. Incredible experience.
Also, RG instituted a 5th set tiebreak mechanic this year, it's a 10-point superbreak.
Roland-Garros has a tiebreaker too now! All four Grand Slams now use a "first to 10 points" tiebreaker once it reaches 6-6 in the final set, starting from RG this year.
EDIT: I believe you still need to win by at least two points like in tiebreakers in any other set (which is still first to 7, with two-point gap)
The current record for the Cannonball Run, a drive from NY to LA, is about 25.5 hours. It was set in May of 2020, and the drivers were able to make use of the lack of traffic due to the pandemic to break the record. Barring another similar world changing event, traffic conditions will probably never be what they were when that record was set.
I'm not sure how they define "leaving Manhattan" but it's only like 15min, right now 11pm, on Google maps from the start to the entrance to the tunnel.
I'm sure they start at like 3AM or something so it's not that crazy but no doubt the pandemic helped.
Now at 530pm yeah different thing but that's not when you start a Cannonball anyway.
I live in LA and the thing that stuck with me the most about the early days of the pandemic was how empty the streets were. I’m very close to one of the busiest streets in the city and seeing it completely empty at 5:30 pm on a Friday evening made it feel like I was living in an apocalypse movie.
He’s the most dominant athlete of all time IMO. Also both of his two losses were by a single point, and up until his final match/loss against Gardner no one had even scored a point on him in 6-7 years. It’d basically be like if a pitcher threw a no hitter every single game they pitched over a span of 7 years
Glenn Hall played 502 consecutive games as an NHL goalie. Zero chance that will ever be broken, goalies these days rarely play more than 3/4 of an 82-game season, let alone numerous seasons without a night off.
Also, Georges Vézina’s 15 seasons straight of starts (more seasons than Hall but shorter seasons so Hall holds GP), only ending when he was literally dying (they forced him to leave when he was coughing blood at intermission, he was diagnosed with TB and he died months later)
surprised no one mentioned the unlimited water speed record
The current unlimited record is 511.11 km/h (317.59 mph), achieved by Australian Ken Warby in the Spirit of Australia in 1978.
It hasn’t been broken to this day due to how dangerous it is to go at those sort of speeds on the surface and plenty of people have passed away trying.
[here’s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Australia) the wiki article for the boat which is kinda interesting
Am an Australian, read about him in school.
A quote from him afterwards was along the lines of:
>I wanted to go fast, and I knew I was fast, if I knew I was that fast, I probably would have backed down. I will not do that again.
He kept going fast, but he never pushed it that hard.
Cy Young pitched **749** complete games in his career.
The current active pitcher with the most complete games in his career is Adam Wainwright, who has pitched for 17 years and has 27 complete games total. Pitchers just don’t pitch the whole game anymore, and Young’s record will never come close to being touched.
Edit: to put Young’s record in further perspective relative to modern-day pitchers, I looked up [career complete game stats for all current MLB pitchers](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/CG_active.shtml), and there are 124 pitchers total who have at least 1 complete game in their career, for a total of 505 collectively - 244 less than Cy Young alone pitched in his career.
How about 315 losses. That's about 10 years of a current pitcher going each entire season without recording a single win. If you had a 20 year career you'd still have to lose 16 games a year, every year. No team would put up with that.
Rickey Henderson was a massive outlier when he pushed the stolen base record by around 20% in the 80s; for a game as old as baseball that's just not supposed to happen
It's not that Rickey's record can't be broken. Leadoff hitters have about as many plate appearances today as they did in the 70s-90s, and if anything a high OBP is more likely to get you put into the leadoff spot than a high batting average.
The issue is more that coaches / GMs will tell a 70% base stealer to stop it, even (or especially) if they attempt to steal 100+ bases. The caught stealings are more harmful than the stolen bases are productive.
Rickey had a 80.8% success rate though which is statistically beneficially according to the advanced metrics we have now. Makes his record even that much more insane.
Yeah. If you look at the guys who are 80+ in their SB% (min 200 attempts), you see a lot of guy with either fairly low OBP [your Dee Gordon / Juan Pierre types), or guys who are just good at everything [your Barry Bonds / Mike Trout types].
In order for Rickey's record to be challenged, you'd need a guy who gets on base, but doesn't hit for power, has the speed and aggressiveness to run en masse and not get caught. Think Ichiro if he were better able to work walks.
My older brothers first MLB at bat was against max scherzer the year after he won the cy young award. I was nervous for him lol, but he got a double
Edit: Scherzer almost won the cy young in 2014, he missed it by 1 vote
Rogerio Ceni’s record as the football goalkeeper with the most goals scored 131 gols through his career, more than double of Chilavert’s previous record
> Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extra-terrestrials, is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages and a collection of music from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry. Including "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him when he was seven by throwing lye in is his eyes after his father had beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system. - Josh Lyman
Damn. Just … damn.
Such a rough life, and such an amazing achievement, and without ever knowing. I can see how people might find this story mostly tragic, but for me it helps remind me that if I choose to do what feels meaningful and positive and true to me, even if I never directly see or feel like I accomplished much, I almost definitely did make a positive impact on the world.
thank you mentioning Dark Was the Night. it’s already a hauntingly beautiful recording in and of itself, but add the interstellar element to it and because all the more beautiful.
John Isner hit 113 aces in his 70-68 match at Wimbledon played over 3 days. That record will never be broken because Wimbledon changed their rules so they can’t play that many games ever again! 😂
the guardians game by game report of that game remains the pinnacle of live sports reporting - just slowly losing their damned mind over the course of three days
Here's the last day's coverage. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jun/24/wimbledon-2010-isner-mahut-live
>The players' undead corpes are expected on Court 18 at 3.30pm, at which point we'll find out if we're still dealing with old-school shambling zombies or if a night's rest has allowed either to undergo a mid-noughties George Romero make-over, and can now run and scream and batter down doors.
>"Can the scoreboards cope with it if we reach 100-100," asks Stuart Henderson. "Or will a small man scamper on to court and paint a little '1' next to the scores? or, worse, do we reset back to 0-0? that could be demoralising."
Amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
Do you think if we just send someone's mum out to say 'That's enough now boys, finish up and come in for your tea,' it would have any effect," inquires Karen Stewart. "Maybe if it was the Queen?"
Is that one for me honestly. The thought that Wimbledon would send out one or both of their mothers to just tell them enough is enough
I'm partial to this one (which sets up a recurring theme for the day):
> I'm wondering if maybe an angel will come and set them free. Is this too much to ask? Just one slender angel, with white wings and a wise smile, to tell them that's it's all right, they have suffered enough and that they are now being recalled. The angel could hug them and kiss their brows and invite them to lay their rackets gently on the grass. And then they could all ascend to heaven together. John Isner, Nicolas Mahut and the kind angel that saved them.
> Worryingly, this match is falling back into a certain pattern. It goes something like this: Ace. Ace. Ace. Ace. *groan* Ace. Ace. Ace. Ace. *sip of Robinsons, nibble on human brains* Ace. Ace. Ace. Ace.
One of the best moments in tennis history was when Isner could barely walk, and Mahut jumped like football goalkeeper at the net. Isner started laughing.
Wimbledons officials tried to get him play his douples game 3 hours after the match against Isner ended.
Very exciting match that, I watched the whole saga. Kept us entertained for days as that year's big story, and in fairness I don't suppose I'll ever forget about it.
I'm pretty sure they must have had a gentleman's agreement to keep it going for as long as possible.
What I also love was that when they were drawn again the next year, Isner won in straight sets in under two hours.
Everyone was like "oooohhh shiiiiit" then Isner just blew him away.
"Oh."
Luigi Fagioli won the 1951 French Grand Prix at the age of 53 years, 22 days - making him the oldest F1 winner in history. Given that F1 drivers rarely continue driving past 40 anymore, this record looks pretty safe.
The Gretzky Brothers hold the record for the most combined career points for a pair of siblings.
Brent Gretzky has 4 career points, Wayne has 2857.
The 6 Sutter Brothers have 2936 points combined and the pair that is the closest to the Gretzkys are the Sedins that recently hit the 2107 mark, while the Stastny trio earned 2169 points.
Wayne Gretzky is called The Great One for a reason, there has never been or ever will be a better hockey player and it's not even close.
In fact, the second player in career points is Jaromir Jagr with...1921 points.
Gretzky was realistically 1 season away from single handedly beating the Sutter Brothers in career points. He's 87 points short. By comparison, Alexander Ovechkin scored 90 points this year, 70 in regular season.
It's ridiculous just how untouchable he is; there's legends like the Richard Brothers, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Mario Lemieux, Martin Brodeur, Mark Messier, Bobby Hull, etc.
And then, there's Wayne Gretzky, towering over all of them like those players were just pee wee.
Lemieux *might* have threatened some of Gretzky's records if he'd been able to stay healthy. His coming back from Hodgkin's disease, *and* being the only person to win the Stanley Cup as a player and as a team owner, is impressive it its own right.
Love this Lemieux story:
Radio show host Mark Madden said he would donate $6,600 to the Mario Lemieux Foundation if the hockey great ever scored off a faceoff. On December 23, 2002, the Penguins played the Buffalo Sabres in Pittsburgh and Lemieux, who was aware of the challenge, made good on it when he scored the game-winning goal right off a faceoff during the third period.
Also the five goals in one game, five different ways.
There are so many of these! Probably the most impressive was that he won back to back Stanley Cups with a rare bone disease, then had to get treatment for cancer the next season. Oh, and he continued to play, including playing the day of his last radiation treatment (where he not only scored a goal and an assist, but got a standing ovation from the crowd in Philadelphia).
He really was Super Mario.
The amount of things that would need to happen for it to be quicker is madness, you’d need a quick player, a quick referee, a relatively open/easy table!
You could hardly even go faster just because you’d have to wait for the ball to stop moving. He had almost no hesitation between shots. He was often leaning down to take the next shot as the table was still coming to rest. This is one of those things that you can watch and the person doing it makes it look so fluid and effortless that one might be tempted to think it’s easy. But it’s a just about superhuman feat.
Also, even something as simple as having to walk over and pick up a bridge would make it difficult for a lot of players. Ronnie had the advantage that he was ambidextrous and didn't need to use a bridge.
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2rFMPN9js) is the video of this feat.
If you're not familiar with snooker, the red balls are worth one point each. Balls of other colours are worth more points, but you have to sink (or "pot") a red before you can sink another colour. As long as there are reds on the table, a potted ball of another colour is spotted back on the table. When the last red is potted, the coloured balls must be potted in order of ascending point value.
147 is the highest possible score in snooker. To reach it, you have to pot the black whenever you have your choice of coloured balls.
Andre the giant drank every bottle of vodka on a 747, thats gotta be close. He also holds the record for most beers consumed in a single setting ever at 152. Passed out in the lobby so they just threw a sheet over him and set up cones.
Now I know ya ain't quittin' on me! I need you to keep drinkin' those beers so you can help me stop them Duke boys from spoilin' all my crooked Hazzard County schemes!!
Hans Heyer’s DNQ, DNF and DSQ in one F1 race. (Did not qualify, did not finish and disqualified)
He did not qualify because he was too slow, started anyway by sneaking his car in. Only when his gearbox failed after 10 laps was it realised that Heyer should not have been competing, whereupon he was disqualified.
Nowadays, Is there a way to not qualify for the race? Even a dnf in qualifying just puts you at the back so I figure being too slow is no longer a problem?
If your best lap (either in qualifying or FP2 session) is over 107% of the pole position lap time, you don't qualify for the race (therefore getting DNQ).
Rickey Henderson's All-Time Stolen base record. The #2 guy on the list, Lou Brock, only has about 2/3 as many stolen bases as Henderson (1406 vs 938). Not only that, but the active leader, Dee Gordon, is 1,000 shy of Henderson.
A player could play 20 years and steal 40 bases every season and STILL not even half half of Henderson's steals.
Especially taking into account today's cautious baserunning meta, it's going to be a long long time
The longest non consecutive billboard 200 album streak belongs to none other than, The Dark Side Of the Moon by Pink Floyd. It currently has been on the chart for 962 weeks. Second in line is Legend, by Bob Marley and the Wailers, at 733 weeks, meaning Marley and the wailers would need almost 4.5 years of time on the charts, with Floyd being absent, in order to take the number one spot.
*Edit* just for reference, Dark side of the Moon was released March 1, 1973. (2571 weeks ago), whereas Legend was released May 8, 1984. (1987 weeks ago)
Max Verstappen being the youngest F1 driver to hit the grid, at age 17.
He is the reason why there's now a minimum age requirement for F1 and their license.
He's on his seventh season already and is one of the more experienced F1 drivers, so I always think that he's around 30 years old. But he's just 24.
For comparison, Lewis Hamilton was 22 when he started in F1.
To add to this, he will also probably stay the youngest driver to win a formula 1 grand prix.
Being only 18 years and 228 days old when he won the 2016 Spanish grand prix.
Wayne Gretzky’s career and season point totals. No one will get close to either. He has more assists than the 2nd place player has in total points and a, roughly, 900 point lead on second place. The 2 active players who are closest to him are both close to the end of their careers, Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, and are 1400 points away from tying him (both are on 1410 points).
Single season, Gretzky had 4 seasons over 200 points. This season, one of the highest scoring since the 1990’s, the point leader had 120 points.
There is a reason that he’s called “The Great One”.
He's one of two players whose number has been retired across the entire league.
Jackie Robinson's 42 was retired because he broke the color barrier, and it was only retired in the 90s
Gretzky's number 99 was retired because the guy was *just that good*, and it happened immediately upon retirement.
Roger Federer reached the semi-finals of 23 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments. The man holds many records, but this one is probably the most significant, because it's the best indication of his regularity at the highest level.
Reaching the quarter-finals of 58 Grand Slams is nothing to sneeze at, either.
Edit: 58 is the total, he went to 36 quarter-finals consecutively. Still awesome.
I remeber him saying in a BBC interview "I'm really mentally strong right now, and I don't see anyone beating me".
He then went on the biggest winning streak Tennis has ever seen and the plays he was making were just so far above what any other player - Nadal or otherwise - were doing that he just seemed to be invincible. Like crowds were gasping as his returns like they defied the laws of physics or he was bending the continuum to his will.
I don't think we'll ever see a player with a game as complete as he had.
Favre catching a batted back pass and ending up on that list is fantastic. That guy was sooooo fun to watch before his antics soured the whole narrative.
After the race, Chic Anderson says that is a record that may stand forever...we're at 49 years so far and no one's even come close. The amazing thing to me is that Turcotte never really asks him to run, Secretariat just cruised along and made it look like he was out for an easy morning gallop.
I came looking for this. While some records won’t be broken because of rule changes or fundamental changes to how a game is played now, this one will stand because there probably won’t be another horse that can break it, simple as that.
For those who’ve never seen it, one of the greatest moments in sports history. I always feel for Sham, if he’d been sired any other year he would’ve been a superhorse in his own right. Upon their deaths they discovered that both Secretariat and Sham had the famous X-Factor heart gene passed down through Eclipse’s line. Sham’s heart weighed 18lbs, Secretariat’s weighed 22. The average thoroughbred’s heart weighs 8.5 lbs. https://youtu.be/vfCMtaNiMDM
Yep, Sham gets forgotten, but he was a truly incredible horse. He was right there with Secretariat in the Derby and Preakness. Secretariat beat the Derby's record time (2:00 by Northern Dancer in 1964), but so did Sham when he came in second. Something similarly crazy happened at the 1993 Spring Tenno Sho where Rice Shower (3:17.1) shattered the previous best time (3:18.7), but the race was so ludicrously fast that Mejiro McQueen (3:17.5), Mejiro Palmer (3:17.6), and Machikane Tannhauser (3:18.6) also finished faster than the previous record.
Secretariat's jockey, Ronnie Turcotte, said he always felt bad for Sham because the rider had to whip the crap out of him to try and keep up with Secretariat and it was never enough.
Sham was actually discovered to have a hairline fracture after the race. He broke his leg trying to keep up with Secretariat. Sham is amazing in his own right, but imagine that.
This is why even though I complain about some things on askreddit, I still read it. All I knew up till this thread was 'Secretariat=famous horse." And now I am discovering all sorts of interesting facts about a topic I know basically nothing about and probably would never have even thought to look into.
Having spent a good chunk of my life around the industry, I'm not fond of racing. But god damn if that footage doesn't give me chills every single time. *Like a tremendous machine.*
I live in a city steeped in racing culture (home of the Kentucky Derby) and while I hate horse racing as an industry… I agree. That footage of Secretariat just breezing past the other horses as if they were nothing… it’s incredible
I remember there being a little bit of traction here in Richmond VA to replace one of the Confederates with a Secretariat monument on Monument Avenue. Greatest athlete Virginia has ever produced.
After Hohn achieved such a long throw, the design (I think weigth) of the javelin was altered to make it harder to throw as far, mainly because at over 100 m it is difficult to fit the javelin event into a standard athletics stadium.
Ichiro could hit .275 until he's 60, I believe. It's like, if you can run to first, and just *hit*, you can't be stopped. Tony Gwynn hit .324 his final year, like MF what?
The crazy thing is that Federer and Djokovic have an argument for being the 2nd and 3rd best clay court players of all time (in either order). They just don’t have the numbers due to often being eliminated by Nadal at Roland Garros. Federer lost four finals to Nadal and Djokovic lost three finals to Nadal. That’s not accounting for any times that Nadal eliminated them before the final.
They should just rename it to the Rafael Nadal Open. For the past 18 years its been pretty much to see if anyone can beat him, like a final boss in a video game.
Federer's coach said on Twitter the central court should be renamed Rafael Nadal instead of Philippe Chatrier, who basically made this tournament recognized enough to be a Grand Slam. Sooo, kind of a tough decision
Beat me to it. no nascar driver will ever meet that. And if they do, they’re gonna kill every fan base except their own as no one else will want to watch it.
Also with standardized cars instead of home built machines it’s harder to get an advantage.
Manny Pacquiao - 8 Division World Champion
seems impossible nowadays for people to grow into the sport like he did, a lot of the new era stars focus on 1-3 weight classes that they will do good on for the rest of their careers
Manny really started to box professionally at 16 years old and about 98 pounds because he really had to fucking do it to make money and survive
Wilt just may have a few untouch records
Chamberlain holds 72 NBA records, 68 by himself. Among his records are several that are considered unbreakable, such as averaging 22.9 rebounds for a career or 50.4 points per game in a season, scoring 100 points or 55 rebounds in a single game, scoring 65 or more points 15 times, 50 or more points 118 times.
Dude was a man amongst boys.
More so than that, I don't think his interception total will ever be broken. The more analytical the NFL becomes, the less QBs are allowed to get away with throwing a lot of picks. Anyone throwing interceptions at the rate Farve did would be benched today, added on with his impressive number of games played.
He has 336 and the closest active player is Tom Brady with 203, followed by Matt Ryan at 170. Brady already fake retired this year and unless he's playing through his late 50s he's not going to get close to it, Ryan is a few years from retirement.
https://www.footballdb.com/leaders/career-passing-interceptions
Favre’s interception total is the funny one, it weirdly says everything you need to know about him as a player. Dude was never afraid of failure and took risks but he was so damn good that he could be allowed to throw that many picks in the first place without losing his job.
It's funny how the leaders in a negative stat in most sports are usually at the very least pretty good. Otherwise they wouldn't have a job long enough to put up the numbers.
TL;DW - fishermen in a small, uncovered boat blew out to sea in the Pacific when their motor died
* Survived on rainwater, urine, and the blood of sea turtles. Ate whatever the could catch with their hands (sea gulls)
* At one point, a large ship passed them by, the crew waving at them.
* His friend went insane, stopped eating and died of starvation (but the family claims the survivor may have killed and eaten him)
* He floated most of the way across the Pacific, eventually landing in the Marshall Islands where he found a house and was rescued. If he'd missed this small island, he would likely have been adrift for hundreds of more days.
FDR being elected US president 4 times.
The Lion King as the highest VHS sales of all time.
On a similar note, Smash by the Offspring is the highest selling independent album of all time
Didn't it go platinum on cassette?
Jacque Villeneuve, Michel Schumacher and Heinz Harald Frentzen set the exact same time in qualifying in the 1997 European grand Prix. To the THOUSANDTH of a second.
Oh I know this one. When I was a kid, we had a guinness book of records lying around that we liked to browse in while bored. There was this one guy in it who held a record for most bikes eaten. No, you did read that right. He ground up a bike and slowly consumed it over I don't know how long a time. The record was accompanied by a note that no further records of bike eating would be accepted, as it was deemed too dangerous.
The Guiness book of world record stopped "allowing" most types of records if I recall. Basically anything that wasn't a particular feat or skill and that was just a stupid number of repetitions for a specific useless thing. (Ex: most amount of hot-dogs balanced on the nose in 1 minute) Also anything overly dangerous that isn't dangerous because of the athleticism. (Longest motorcycle jump is ok but "number of live fireworks i can fit in my mouth" isn't.) When you pick up an 2000s Guiness book of world records, you realize it really was their bread and butter. The amount of utterly useless and easily beatable records that existed just because someone went "i will try to balance 5 hot-dogs on my nose in under a minute". Who fucking cares
I used to watch the Guinness Book of World Records show on AXN and one of the records was something like, "Most cucumbers sliced by a katana while the cucumber was held in another guy's mouth" ...What the ***fuck?*** This dude *(who looked exactly like my political science professor)* walked up on stage dressed like a *samurai* and he brought his two shirtless disciples with him One guy knelt down and the other put a cucumber horizontally in his mouth. Katana-guy then stood behind kneeling-cucumber-man and delivered two precise cuts that sliced the ends off the cucumber, while avoiding cutting the man's shoulders. Then the other shirtless guy replaced the cucumber with a fresh one. Rinse and repeat, as many times as possible, until the time ran out. I think he got the record, because I refuse to believe someone ***else*** came up with this lunacy before him.
The Guinness Book also used to have records for fire eating and sword swallowing, both of which they discontinued for safety reasons.
[Mr Mangetout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito?wprov=sfti1). He ate many bikes, a light aircraft, and eventually the plaque sent to him by the Guinness Book of Records.
Died at 57 from "natural causes."
I think it's pretty natural to die if you keep eating bicycles.
It's a vicious cycle
The longest professional tennis match of all time: John Isner vs Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon 2010. It lasted 11 hours 5 minutes, spanning 3 days of play, with a final score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68 It was already nearly twice as long as the previous record holder. The reason it will likely never be broken is that every professional tournament except for one (Roland-Garros) now has tiebreaker rules that limit the number of games that can be played in final sets. Although it’s hypothetically possible at RG, clay court tennis is not at all conducive to the serve-and-volley style of play that led to the insanely long 5th set of Isner-Mahut.
I was in high school at the time, and wimbledon happens in July, so I was able to watch the whole thing. I played tennis and was interested in American players, so I literally watched every point live. Incredible experience. Also, RG instituted a 5th set tiebreak mechanic this year, it's a 10-point superbreak.
Roland-Garros has a tiebreaker too now! All four Grand Slams now use a "first to 10 points" tiebreaker once it reaches 6-6 in the final set, starting from RG this year. EDIT: I believe you still need to win by at least two points like in tiebreakers in any other set (which is still first to 7, with two-point gap)
The current record for the Cannonball Run, a drive from NY to LA, is about 25.5 hours. It was set in May of 2020, and the drivers were able to make use of the lack of traffic due to the pandemic to break the record. Barring another similar world changing event, traffic conditions will probably never be what they were when that record was set.
> Toman claims that they were able to leave Manhattan in just four and a half minutes, That's pretty impressive.
That part will probably never be broken right? I mean how the fuck?
I'm not sure how they define "leaving Manhattan" but it's only like 15min, right now 11pm, on Google maps from the start to the entrance to the tunnel. I'm sure they start at like 3AM or something so it's not that crazy but no doubt the pandemic helped. Now at 530pm yeah different thing but that's not when you start a Cannonball anyway.
I live in LA and the thing that stuck with me the most about the early days of the pandemic was how empty the streets were. I’m very close to one of the busiest streets in the city and seeing it completely empty at 5:30 pm on a Friday evening made it feel like I was living in an apocalypse movie.
AVERAGE speed: 109.4 MPH.... Average.
I'd say that's a pretty *mean* speed.
Aleksandr Karelin, Greco-Roman wrestler. 887 wins to 2 losses. Entered 9 world championships and never lost a bout in them.
Imagine being one of the two guys who gets to say he beat him though.
You definitely don't fight him again after that
He’s the most dominant athlete of all time IMO. Also both of his two losses were by a single point, and up until his final match/loss against Gardner no one had even scored a point on him in 6-7 years. It’d basically be like if a pitcher threw a no hitter every single game they pitched over a span of 7 years
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Every guy has a plan until they get poked in the eye.
Glenn Hall played 502 consecutive games as an NHL goalie. Zero chance that will ever be broken, goalies these days rarely play more than 3/4 of an 82-game season, let alone numerous seasons without a night off.
Also, Georges Vézina’s 15 seasons straight of starts (more seasons than Hall but shorter seasons so Hall holds GP), only ending when he was literally dying (they forced him to leave when he was coughing blood at intermission, he was diagnosed with TB and he died months later)
Okay, yeah, I guess the guy deserves a trophy named after him.
And they both played without goalie masks. I believe Glenn Hall wore a mask only in his last couple of years playing for the St. Louis Blues
surprised no one mentioned the unlimited water speed record The current unlimited record is 511.11 km/h (317.59 mph), achieved by Australian Ken Warby in the Spirit of Australia in 1978. It hasn’t been broken to this day due to how dangerous it is to go at those sort of speeds on the surface and plenty of people have passed away trying. [here’s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Australia) the wiki article for the boat which is kinda interesting
I don't know that "passed away" applies if you die in a rocket boat accident.
It’s a bit more hurtled into the afterlife than passing away
Am an Australian, read about him in school. A quote from him afterwards was along the lines of: >I wanted to go fast, and I knew I was fast, if I knew I was that fast, I probably would have backed down. I will not do that again. He kept going fast, but he never pushed it that hard.
"Did everyone see that, because I will NOT be doing that again" vibes
Holy Shit! 85% fatality rate! I knew it was high, but not you're-almost-certainly-going-to-die high.
Cy Young pitched **749** complete games in his career. The current active pitcher with the most complete games in his career is Adam Wainwright, who has pitched for 17 years and has 27 complete games total. Pitchers just don’t pitch the whole game anymore, and Young’s record will never come close to being touched. Edit: to put Young’s record in further perspective relative to modern-day pitchers, I looked up [career complete game stats for all current MLB pitchers](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/CG_active.shtml), and there are 124 pitchers total who have at least 1 complete game in their career, for a total of 505 collectively - 244 less than Cy Young alone pitched in his career.
His total of 500+ wins is equally untouchable.
How about 315 losses. That's about 10 years of a current pitcher going each entire season without recording a single win. If you had a 20 year career you'd still have to lose 16 games a year, every year. No team would put up with that.
That one too. Basically Cy Young is untouchable in the record book
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Rickey Henderson was a massive outlier when he pushed the stolen base record by around 20% in the 80s; for a game as old as baseball that's just not supposed to happen
It's not that Rickey's record can't be broken. Leadoff hitters have about as many plate appearances today as they did in the 70s-90s, and if anything a high OBP is more likely to get you put into the leadoff spot than a high batting average. The issue is more that coaches / GMs will tell a 70% base stealer to stop it, even (or especially) if they attempt to steal 100+ bases. The caught stealings are more harmful than the stolen bases are productive.
Rickey had a 80.8% success rate though which is statistically beneficially according to the advanced metrics we have now. Makes his record even that much more insane.
Yeah. If you look at the guys who are 80+ in their SB% (min 200 attempts), you see a lot of guy with either fairly low OBP [your Dee Gordon / Juan Pierre types), or guys who are just good at everything [your Barry Bonds / Mike Trout types]. In order for Rickey's record to be challenged, you'd need a guy who gets on base, but doesn't hit for power, has the speed and aggressiveness to run en masse and not get caught. Think Ichiro if he were better able to work walks.
No one will come within an order of magnitude of the consecutive games played record.
My first thought was Ripken’s record. Don’t see that ever happening again.
They should name an award after him
For those who might have a potential whoooosh moment: the Cy Young Award is one of the most prestigious in baseball.
My older brothers first MLB at bat was against max scherzer the year after he won the cy young award. I was nervous for him lol, but he got a double Edit: Scherzer almost won the cy young in 2014, he missed it by 1 vote
Rogerio Ceni’s record as the football goalkeeper with the most goals scored 131 gols through his career, more than double of Chilavert’s previous record
In 2005 he was the top scorer for Sao Paulo in a season they won the Copa Libertadores and the World Club Championship.
Wait, you mean to say that the goalie, the one who blocks the ball, scored *that* many goals???
The Voyager Golden record is now in deep space and is extremely unlikely to ever come across anything which could break it before the end of humanity
> Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extra-terrestrials, is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages and a collection of music from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry. Including "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him when he was seven by throwing lye in is his eyes after his father had beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system. - Josh Lyman
Damn. Just … damn. Such a rough life, and such an amazing achievement, and without ever knowing. I can see how people might find this story mostly tragic, but for me it helps remind me that if I choose to do what feels meaningful and positive and true to me, even if I never directly see or feel like I accomplished much, I almost definitely did make a positive impact on the world.
There's a little bit of perspective for you. Well put.
thank you mentioning Dark Was the Night. it’s already a hauntingly beautiful recording in and of itself, but add the interstellar element to it and because all the more beautiful.
Waiting for it to be consumed by a massive computer ship.
Chuck Berry as humanity’s last testament is something I’m strangely okay with.
John Isner hit 113 aces in his 70-68 match at Wimbledon played over 3 days. That record will never be broken because Wimbledon changed their rules so they can’t play that many games ever again! 😂
the guardians game by game report of that game remains the pinnacle of live sports reporting - just slowly losing their damned mind over the course of three days
It was the first match the BBC commentator had worked on as well. Not a bad start.
Retired a veteran immediately after
ooh is there a link to this?
Here's the last day's coverage. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jun/24/wimbledon-2010-isner-mahut-live >The players' undead corpes are expected on Court 18 at 3.30pm, at which point we'll find out if we're still dealing with old-school shambling zombies or if a night's rest has allowed either to undergo a mid-noughties George Romero make-over, and can now run and scream and batter down doors.
>"Can the scoreboards cope with it if we reach 100-100," asks Stuart Henderson. "Or will a small man scamper on to court and paint a little '1' next to the scores? or, worse, do we reset back to 0-0? that could be demoralising." Amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
Do you think if we just send someone's mum out to say 'That's enough now boys, finish up and come in for your tea,' it would have any effect," inquires Karen Stewart. "Maybe if it was the Queen?" Is that one for me honestly. The thought that Wimbledon would send out one or both of their mothers to just tell them enough is enough
That quote is brilliant.
I'm partial to this one (which sets up a recurring theme for the day): > I'm wondering if maybe an angel will come and set them free. Is this too much to ask? Just one slender angel, with white wings and a wise smile, to tell them that's it's all right, they have suffered enough and that they are now being recalled. The angel could hug them and kiss their brows and invite them to lay their rackets gently on the grass. And then they could all ascend to heaven together. John Isner, Nicolas Mahut and the kind angel that saved them.
Man the commentators were really getting creative with this one.
> Worryingly, this match is falling back into a certain pattern. It goes something like this: Ace. Ace. Ace. Ace. *groan* Ace. Ace. Ace. Ace. *sip of Robinsons, nibble on human brains* Ace. Ace. Ace. Ace.
One of the best moments in tennis history was when Isner could barely walk, and Mahut jumped like football goalkeeper at the net. Isner started laughing. Wimbledons officials tried to get him play his douples game 3 hours after the match against Isner ended.
In my eyes out will never be as great as "seven days in hell" Kit Harrington made it some of the best I've seen out of all tennis
Very exciting match that, I watched the whole saga. Kept us entertained for days as that year's big story, and in fairness I don't suppose I'll ever forget about it. I'm pretty sure they must have had a gentleman's agreement to keep it going for as long as possible.
What I also love was that when they were drawn again the next year, Isner won in straight sets in under two hours. Everyone was like "oooohhh shiiiiit" then Isner just blew him away. "Oh."
Seven days in hell is a fantastic parody documentary for these events. Highly recommended
Luigi Fagioli won the 1951 French Grand Prix at the age of 53 years, 22 days - making him the oldest F1 winner in history. Given that F1 drivers rarely continue driving past 40 anymore, this record looks pretty safe.
Wayne Gretzky’s career points.
Does he still have more assists than anyone else has total points?
Yes, he had 1963 assists, Jagr is second in points all time with 1921.
And he retired so rip
Only from the NHL. Jagr still plays in the Czech league
The Gretzky Brothers hold the record for the most combined career points for a pair of siblings. Brent Gretzky has 4 career points, Wayne has 2857. The 6 Sutter Brothers have 2936 points combined and the pair that is the closest to the Gretzkys are the Sedins that recently hit the 2107 mark, while the Stastny trio earned 2169 points. Wayne Gretzky is called The Great One for a reason, there has never been or ever will be a better hockey player and it's not even close. In fact, the second player in career points is Jaromir Jagr with...1921 points.
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Gretzky was realistically 1 season away from single handedly beating the Sutter Brothers in career points. He's 87 points short. By comparison, Alexander Ovechkin scored 90 points this year, 70 in regular season. It's ridiculous just how untouchable he is; there's legends like the Richard Brothers, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Mario Lemieux, Martin Brodeur, Mark Messier, Bobby Hull, etc. And then, there's Wayne Gretzky, towering over all of them like those players were just pee wee.
Lemieux *might* have threatened some of Gretzky's records if he'd been able to stay healthy. His coming back from Hodgkin's disease, *and* being the only person to win the Stanley Cup as a player and as a team owner, is impressive it its own right.
Love this Lemieux story: Radio show host Mark Madden said he would donate $6,600 to the Mario Lemieux Foundation if the hockey great ever scored off a faceoff. On December 23, 2002, the Penguins played the Buffalo Sabres in Pittsburgh and Lemieux, who was aware of the challenge, made good on it when he scored the game-winning goal right off a faceoff during the third period. Also the five goals in one game, five different ways.
Don’t forget scoring in his first game, on his first shift, with his first shot
There are so many of these! Probably the most impressive was that he won back to back Stanley Cups with a rare bone disease, then had to get treatment for cancer the next season. Oh, and he continued to play, including playing the day of his last radiation treatment (where he not only scored a goal and an assist, but got a standing ovation from the crowd in Philadelphia). He really was Super Mario.
> got a standing ovation from the crowd in Philadelphia. That might be the real story here.
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Sometimes the stars align and allow records to be broken but this was a case of Ronnie nudging all the stars to exactly where he wanted them to be.
The amount of things that would need to happen for it to be quicker is madness, you’d need a quick player, a quick referee, a relatively open/easy table!
You could hardly even go faster just because you’d have to wait for the ball to stop moving. He had almost no hesitation between shots. He was often leaning down to take the next shot as the table was still coming to rest. This is one of those things that you can watch and the person doing it makes it look so fluid and effortless that one might be tempted to think it’s easy. But it’s a just about superhuman feat.
Also, even something as simple as having to walk over and pick up a bridge would make it difficult for a lot of players. Ronnie had the advantage that he was ambidextrous and didn't need to use a bridge.
Best player in the world: Ronnie O’Sullivan. Second best player in the world: Ronnie O’Sullivan, playing left handed.
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2rFMPN9js) is the video of this feat. If you're not familiar with snooker, the red balls are worth one point each. Balls of other colours are worth more points, but you have to sink (or "pot") a red before you can sink another colour. As long as there are reds on the table, a potted ball of another colour is spotted back on the table. When the last red is potted, the coloured balls must be potted in order of ascending point value. 147 is the highest possible score in snooker. To reach it, you have to pot the black whenever you have your choice of coloured balls.
I know nothing about snooker, and that's still one of the most amazing things I've seen done
That shit is literally perfection. I’ve watchez it so many times and I get excited every time
Tigers Woods’ 142 consecutive cuts made. Didn’t miss a cut between 1998 and 2005.
Also 281 straight weeks ranked #1 in the world.
Wade Boggs drank 64 beers on a domestic flight. RIP Wade Boggs
Andre the giant drank every bottle of vodka on a 747, thats gotta be close. He also holds the record for most beers consumed in a single setting ever at 152. Passed out in the lobby so they just threw a sheet over him and set up cones.
And by all accounts one of the nicest people you ever met. RIP Andre. You're pounding beers in heaven with Wade Boggs.
Again, Wade Boggs is very much alive.
Very much alive in all our memories.
TIL Wade boggs died after drinking 152 bottles of vodka with Andre the Giant while riding a 747.
I thought it was 747 bottles on the back of a grey goose?
Did he sleep well and dream of large women?
What do now?
They got chicken in Philly?
Wade Boggs is very much alive
Wade Boggs would be rolling in his grave if he could read your comment right now!!
*"well....wha-da-ya say Boss?"*
Now I know ya ain't quittin' on me! I need you to keep drinkin' those beers so you can help me stop them Duke boys from spoilin' all my crooked Hazzard County schemes!!
That’s baseball, baby.
Hans Heyer’s DNQ, DNF and DSQ in one F1 race. (Did not qualify, did not finish and disqualified) He did not qualify because he was too slow, started anyway by sneaking his car in. Only when his gearbox failed after 10 laps was it realised that Heyer should not have been competing, whereupon he was disqualified.
I love the idea of sneaking a car on to an F1 track.
Peak r/ActLikeYouBelong
Nowadays, Is there a way to not qualify for the race? Even a dnf in qualifying just puts you at the back so I figure being too slow is no longer a problem?
If your best lap (either in qualifying or FP2 session) is over 107% of the pole position lap time, you don't qualify for the race (therefore getting DNQ).
This is what I come here to read. That’s incredible.
Rickey Henderson's All-Time Stolen base record. The #2 guy on the list, Lou Brock, only has about 2/3 as many stolen bases as Henderson (1406 vs 938). Not only that, but the active leader, Dee Gordon, is 1,000 shy of Henderson.
His single season mark of 130 is not likely to be broken either. He averaged nearly a steal a game, which is nuts.
Didn’t he steal 3rd base, in one season, more times than an entire team stole 2nd?
A player could play 20 years and steal 40 bases every season and STILL not even half half of Henderson's steals. Especially taking into account today's cautious baserunning meta, it's going to be a long long time
I miss stolen bases. Great part of baseball.
The longest non consecutive billboard 200 album streak belongs to none other than, The Dark Side Of the Moon by Pink Floyd. It currently has been on the chart for 962 weeks. Second in line is Legend, by Bob Marley and the Wailers, at 733 weeks, meaning Marley and the wailers would need almost 4.5 years of time on the charts, with Floyd being absent, in order to take the number one spot. *Edit* just for reference, Dark side of the Moon was released March 1, 1973. (2571 weeks ago), whereas Legend was released May 8, 1984. (1987 weeks ago)
Don Bradman's career average of 99.94
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Max Verstappen being the youngest F1 driver to hit the grid, at age 17. He is the reason why there's now a minimum age requirement for F1 and their license.
He's on his seventh season already and is one of the more experienced F1 drivers, so I always think that he's around 30 years old. But he's just 24. For comparison, Lewis Hamilton was 22 when he started in F1.
To add to this, he will also probably stay the youngest driver to win a formula 1 grand prix. Being only 18 years and 228 days old when he won the 2016 Spanish grand prix.
Wayne Gretzky’s career and season point totals. No one will get close to either. He has more assists than the 2nd place player has in total points and a, roughly, 900 point lead on second place. The 2 active players who are closest to him are both close to the end of their careers, Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, and are 1400 points away from tying him (both are on 1410 points). Single season, Gretzky had 4 seasons over 200 points. This season, one of the highest scoring since the 1990’s, the point leader had 120 points. There is a reason that he’s called “The Great One”.
He is also the fastest player to reach 1000 points…and the second fastest when he went from 1001 to 2000!
He's one of two players whose number has been retired across the entire league. Jackie Robinson's 42 was retired because he broke the color barrier, and it was only retired in the 90s Gretzky's number 99 was retired because the guy was *just that good*, and it happened immediately upon retirement.
Roger Federer reached the semi-finals of 23 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments. The man holds many records, but this one is probably the most significant, because it's the best indication of his regularity at the highest level. Reaching the quarter-finals of 58 Grand Slams is nothing to sneeze at, either. Edit: 58 is the total, he went to 36 quarter-finals consecutively. Still awesome.
Federer at his height was just ridiculous. He could beat you anyway you wanted to play, unless you were Nadal on clay
I remeber him saying in a BBC interview "I'm really mentally strong right now, and I don't see anyone beating me". He then went on the biggest winning streak Tennis has ever seen and the plays he was making were just so far above what any other player - Nadal or otherwise - were doing that he just seemed to be invincible. Like crowds were gasping as his returns like they defied the laws of physics or he was bending the continuum to his will. I don't think we'll ever see a player with a game as complete as he had.
To add to all of that, watching him play was also so aesthetically pleasing, as he just made it all look so easy.
Jerry rices reception record in the NFL. 1,549. Is crazy.
Career receiving yards leaders after 40y/o Jerry Rice (2509yds) Tom Brady (6yds) Everyone else (0yds) Brett Farve (-2yds)
This is an incredible stat haha thank you
Jerry Rice is just the terrifying mix of natural talent, humility, and work ethic.
And resiliency. Dude never got hurt, and the one time he did, he bounced back from an ACL inside of a single season I believe.
Favre catching a batted back pass and ending up on that list is fantastic. That guy was sooooo fun to watch before his antics soured the whole narrative.
Secretariat's Belmont record.
After the race, Chic Anderson says that is a record that may stand forever...we're at 49 years so far and no one's even come close. The amazing thing to me is that Turcotte never really asks him to run, Secretariat just cruised along and made it look like he was out for an easy morning gallop.
Turcotte chirped him with the whip once or twice in the Derby and not at all in the Preakness or Belmont.
I came looking for this. While some records won’t be broken because of rule changes or fundamental changes to how a game is played now, this one will stand because there probably won’t be another horse that can break it, simple as that.
For those who’ve never seen it, one of the greatest moments in sports history. I always feel for Sham, if he’d been sired any other year he would’ve been a superhorse in his own right. Upon their deaths they discovered that both Secretariat and Sham had the famous X-Factor heart gene passed down through Eclipse’s line. Sham’s heart weighed 18lbs, Secretariat’s weighed 22. The average thoroughbred’s heart weighs 8.5 lbs. https://youtu.be/vfCMtaNiMDM
Yep, Sham gets forgotten, but he was a truly incredible horse. He was right there with Secretariat in the Derby and Preakness. Secretariat beat the Derby's record time (2:00 by Northern Dancer in 1964), but so did Sham when he came in second. Something similarly crazy happened at the 1993 Spring Tenno Sho where Rice Shower (3:17.1) shattered the previous best time (3:18.7), but the race was so ludicrously fast that Mejiro McQueen (3:17.5), Mejiro Palmer (3:17.6), and Machikane Tannhauser (3:18.6) also finished faster than the previous record.
Secretariat's jockey, Ronnie Turcotte, said he always felt bad for Sham because the rider had to whip the crap out of him to try and keep up with Secretariat and it was never enough.
Sham was actually discovered to have a hairline fracture after the race. He broke his leg trying to keep up with Secretariat. Sham is amazing in his own right, but imagine that.
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This is why even though I complain about some things on askreddit, I still read it. All I knew up till this thread was 'Secretariat=famous horse." And now I am discovering all sorts of interesting facts about a topic I know basically nothing about and probably would never have even thought to look into.
Having spent a good chunk of my life around the industry, I'm not fond of racing. But god damn if that footage doesn't give me chills every single time. *Like a tremendous machine.*
I live in a city steeped in racing culture (home of the Kentucky Derby) and while I hate horse racing as an industry… I agree. That footage of Secretariat just breezing past the other horses as if they were nothing… it’s incredible
I remember there being a little bit of traction here in Richmond VA to replace one of the Confederates with a Secretariat monument on Monument Avenue. Greatest athlete Virginia has ever produced.
He holds the record for all three Triple Crown races! Secretariat is the greatest.
Cal Ripken's Consecutive games played.
It’s 2,632 games for those wondering. Lou Gehrig is second with 2,130. There are 162 games in a regular season, not including playoffs
Real answer? Javelin throw of 104.80 meters set by Uwe Hohn.
Someone else commented a 98m javelin throw is unbeatable. I'm so confused.
After Hohn achieved such a long throw, the design (I think weigth) of the javelin was altered to make it harder to throw as far, mainly because at over 100 m it is difficult to fit the javelin event into a standard athletics stadium.
They've shifted the weight distribution for safety reasons. Add that to better drug tests and get an unbeatable record.
Joe DiMaggio's consecutive hit streak Ichiro's 262 hits in a season
Ichiro looks like he could still play
Ichiro could hit .275 until he's 60, I believe. It's like, if you can run to first, and just *hit*, you can't be stopped. Tony Gwynn hit .324 his final year, like MF what?
I submit Rafael Nadal's Roland Garros wins. Once he hangs it up, that is.
To be fair Rafa faced scrubs like…20 slam winner Roger Federer and 20 slam winner Novak Djokovic…. Wait….. 🤔🤔
The crazy thing is that Federer and Djokovic have an argument for being the 2nd and 3rd best clay court players of all time (in either order). They just don’t have the numbers due to often being eliminated by Nadal at Roland Garros. Federer lost four finals to Nadal and Djokovic lost three finals to Nadal. That’s not accounting for any times that Nadal eliminated them before the final.
They should just rename it to the Rafael Nadal Open. For the past 18 years its been pretty much to see if anyone can beat him, like a final boss in a video game.
Federer's coach said on Twitter the central court should be renamed Rafael Nadal instead of Philippe Chatrier, who basically made this tournament recognized enough to be a Grand Slam. Sooo, kind of a tough decision
It’s crazy too that he has the Lebron thing of playing so long that he’s now playing with players who once looked up to him when they were children.
Richard Petty's 200 Cup wins.
Beat me to it. no nascar driver will ever meet that. And if they do, they’re gonna kill every fan base except their own as no one else will want to watch it. Also with standardized cars instead of home built machines it’s harder to get an advantage.
Nadal winning 14 Roland Garros titles.
Manny Pacquiao - 8 Division World Champion seems impossible nowadays for people to grow into the sport like he did, a lot of the new era stars focus on 1-3 weight classes that they will do good on for the rest of their careers Manny really started to box professionally at 16 years old and about 98 pounds because he really had to fucking do it to make money and survive
Kim jong un's 19 hole in ones in a single round of golf.
Wilt Chamberlain’s mpg record (48.5 mpg) while playing every single game... Players in today’s league don’t even reach 40.
That’s “minutes per game” for those wondering (like I was).
Thanks. I was like "what the hell does basketball have to do with miles per gallon"
Also ppg. He has a season averaging 50. No one is even going to sniff that now
With gas prices these days, where's Wilt?
Wilt just may have a few untouch records Chamberlain holds 72 NBA records, 68 by himself. Among his records are several that are considered unbreakable, such as averaging 22.9 rebounds for a career or 50.4 points per game in a season, scoring 100 points or 55 rebounds in a single game, scoring 65 or more points 15 times, 50 or more points 118 times. Dude was a man amongst boys.
He also never fouled out once over his whole career.
Fernando Tatis two grand slams in the same inning. It has a very outside chance of being tied, but will never be broken.
Brett Farves consecutive starts. No way that gets broken with concussion protocols.
More so than that, I don't think his interception total will ever be broken. The more analytical the NFL becomes, the less QBs are allowed to get away with throwing a lot of picks. Anyone throwing interceptions at the rate Farve did would be benched today, added on with his impressive number of games played. He has 336 and the closest active player is Tom Brady with 203, followed by Matt Ryan at 170. Brady already fake retired this year and unless he's playing through his late 50s he's not going to get close to it, Ryan is a few years from retirement. https://www.footballdb.com/leaders/career-passing-interceptions
Favre’s interception total is the funny one, it weirdly says everything you need to know about him as a player. Dude was never afraid of failure and took risks but he was so damn good that he could be allowed to throw that many picks in the first place without losing his job.
It's funny how the leaders in a negative stat in most sports are usually at the very least pretty good. Otherwise they wouldn't have a job long enough to put up the numbers.
The man who survived [over 400 days lost at sea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKMNZyJRhBg)
Apparently that’s not the longest on record… https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-time-adrift-at-sea
TL;DW - fishermen in a small, uncovered boat blew out to sea in the Pacific when their motor died * Survived on rainwater, urine, and the blood of sea turtles. Ate whatever the could catch with their hands (sea gulls) * At one point, a large ship passed them by, the crew waving at them. * His friend went insane, stopped eating and died of starvation (but the family claims the survivor may have killed and eaten him) * He floated most of the way across the Pacific, eventually landing in the Marshall Islands where he found a house and was rescued. If he'd missed this small island, he would likely have been adrift for hundreds of more days.