The Rarest Feats in Sports
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the world of sports some things take place all the time you'll see some of the same things happen in every game or match |
| 0:06.5 | However, there are some things that almost never occur things that are so rare and unexpected that if you find yourself as a spectator to such an event, |
| 0:14.4 | you can consider yourself lucky. Some of these events are so rare that may only happen once a decade |
| 0:20.1 | or even once a century. Learn more about the rarest feats in sports |
| 0:25.0 | on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. In discussing rare feats and sports, I'm not going to be talking about things that take a season or a career to accomplish. |
| 0:48.0 | Every sport has someone who has achieved a high-level success after an entire career or a team that had a great season. |
| 0:55.2 | What I'm going to be talking about are highly improbable events. |
| 0:59.3 | Events that require not just luck and skill, but oftentimes the right circumstances to present themselves for such an event to even take place. |
| 1:07.0 | Not all sporting events lend themselves to these sort of rare things. |
| 1:12.0 | For example, in track and field there isn't a lot of room for |
| 1:14.4 | unexpected events. On rare occasions, records can be broken and I've talked about those in a |
| 1:19.3 | previous episode but those are just cases of the same thing being done better. |
| 1:24.0 | So with that, I'll start with a sport that doesn't usually lend itself to rare events. |
| 1:29.0 | Tennis. |
| 1:31.0 | There are only a limited number of outcomes in tennis, so most matches take place within those parameters. |
| 1:36.0 | However, there is one element in tennis that has quite a bit of variability. |
| 1:40.0 | Tiebreakers. |
| 1:41.0 | For the longest time, Wimbledon used a system known as Advantage set rules to break ties. |
| 1:47.0 | That meant that a player had to win the final set by two points if it was tied. |
| 1:52.2 | Winning by two points did have the potential to extend the length of a match, |
| 1:56.0 | but usually not by any great amount. |
| 1:58.0 | You'd usually be talking about 15 minutes, maybe a half an hour. |
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