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Are World Records set in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics not considered Olympic records?
Those are Olympic records. They're both World Records (WRs) and the Olympics Records (ORs). A WR set in the Olympics is a WR and an OR.
WRs are not bounded to the Olympics and so can happen at other ...
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Who are the football players that have scored in every minute of a football match?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Luis Suarez
Lionel Messi is the other footballer who has a chance to achieve this, if he scores in the 1st minute.
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Whose record did the Chicago Bulls team of 1995-96 break?
Chicago Bulls held the record for most wins in a single NBA season with 72 wins in the 1995-96 season, which has since been surpassed by the 2015-2016 Golden State Warriors (with 73 wins).
Prior to ...
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Have two generations of one family ever won a medal at the same Olympics?
Yes, here's an example: Alfred and his father Oscar Swahn (Sweden) - 1912, shooting, team gold.
Oscar is particularly interesting, "At 64 years of age, he became the oldest gold medalist ever, which ...
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What is the record for the most family members competing in the same Olympic Games?
The record for the most siblings in the same Olympic Games is 4. This happened when the four brothers Luis Adrián, Jorge, José and Roberto Tamés from Mexico competed as two 2-man bobsleigh teams at ...
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Players with 300 or more goals for a single team in top flight domestic league (European clubs)
I have started a CW answer, where various users can add players they find (or occasionally update numbers for active players). I guess in this way we can find at least an approximation of a complete ...
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Does Vatican participate in any International sports?
Vatican City has both a national football and cricket team. However, as neither are members of the appropriate international governing body (FIFA and the ICC respectively) they don't compete in any ...
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How is Bavuma the first black South African cricketer to make a test century?
JP Duminy is from the Cape Coloured ethnic grouping (see http://www.cricketwa.com/370/player/jean-paul-duminy.aspx), hence is not considered Black African.
Note: I'm not commenting on whether these ...
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What is the record for the most family members competing in the same Olympic Games?
Another example of four siblings in the same Olympics is the Belgian Borlée family during the 2016 Rio olympics.
The brothers Jonathan, Kevin and Dylan participated in the 4x400m relay, taking fourth ...
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If a swimmer breaks a record in a medley event, does the record count towards the individual event or the medley event?
This is clear in the rules of swimming. For example, take the USA Swimming (official web site) rules, which follow from FINA. In section 102.24, Timing Rules one finds:
102.24 TIMING RULES
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Greatest comeback in 2nd leg match
This question was a subject of much interest following Barcelona's 4-0 hammering at PSG in the Round of 16 stage of the Champions League in February 2017. While this question looks for the greatest ...
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Quickest goal scored in each World Cup edition
This is a community wiki post with a partial answer. If you have can add some missing information or additional sources, go ahead and edit this post.
The statistics below should be taken with caution....
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Player who score 200 in t20 games?
Nobody has scored 200 in an international, IPL, or T20 Blast match, with the top scorer in a major T20 match being Chris Gayle, who scored 175 for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in an IPL match.
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Longest time between ATP or WTA #1?
Longest time span between the First and Last time at #1 (ATP)
Roger Federer was first ranked at the top of the ATP Rankings on February 2nd, 2004. The last time he was promoted to the top of the ATP ...
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Players with 300 or more goals in top flight domestic league (European clubs)
I think this could be a reliable list, but maybe not exact, of players with more goals in the top flight domestic leagues in the world. I only consider goals in national leagues but I don´t consider ...
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Is it true that a sprinter ran the 100m in 21.73 seconds in a World Championship?
Yes, the story is true. Here is a video showing the race (at timecode 5:51).
As you can see, Kim Collins (at lane 7: it is him indeed, cf. the IAAF official results, heat #5) makes a normal start, but ...
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Fastest opening goal of a FIFA World Cup
Here is an answer listing times of first goals in FIFA World Cups. It is community wiki, feel free to edit it - correct mistakes, add more sources, etc.
2022: Valencia 16'
2018: Gazinsky 12'
2014: ...
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Lowest score that has never scored by a batsman in an innings?
For Tests and ODIs, Fillet's answer is correct: The lowest score that has never been scored in a Test innings remains 229, which is also the lowest score never achieved in any international, and the ...
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Highest runs scored by the lowest scoring batsman in a full innings in test cricket
The highest low score of an innings in Test matches is 12.
As can be seen in the screenshot, this low score has been made on two occasions. The first was by India in the first Test against New ...
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WR Line while swimming
I'm pretty sure it shows the world record pace, rather than the position of the holder at that point in the race - i.e. it advances at a constant speed. Unless the TV company had exact positional data ...
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Is Roger Federer's 65 consecutive Grand Slams a record?
Roger Federer's 65 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments (2001 US Open - 2016 Australian Open) was indeed a record at the time of posting this question. Since then he was surpassed by Feliciano López ...
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What is the most number of times two teams met in a season?
There have been 7 El Clásicos played between Real Madrid and Barcelona during the 2010/11 season in 4 different tournaments:
2010/11 La Liga:
29.Nov.2010 BAR 5 - 0 RMA
16.Apr.2011 RMA 1 - 1 BAR
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Footballers with most free kicks scored
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Player
Goals
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Juninho Pernambucano
77
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Pelé
70
3
Víctor Legrotaglie
66
3
Ronaldinho Gaúcho
66
5
Lionel Messi
65
5
David Beckham
65
7
Diego Armando Maradona
62
7
Zico
62
9
Cristiano ...
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Greatest number of own goals in Europe
For the Premier League it is Richard Dunne Source
For the Bundesliga there are two players who are tied: Manfred Kaltz & Nikolce Noveski Source from the Bundesliga Website
For La Liga the top ...
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Indoor / outdoor track and field different records?
tl;dr:
Track distance, tightness of curves, and banked curves
Event distances
Different implement weights
Lack of wind
Differences in runways (length and responsiveness)
For the track events, you've ...
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Most number of extra-time Goals
In Coupe Gambardella (U19 Men's French cup); [round of 64 and round of 32]
12 goals in extra time: Douai SC-Amiens SC: 0-0 to 0-12 Coupe Gambardella 1998-99
10 goals in extra time: Besançon RC-...
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Player who score 200 in t20 games?
Dhanuka Pathirana scores 277 in a Lancashire's Saddleworth League.
The match seems played in 2007 seems Austerlands - Droylsden (366-3)
another source - another source
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