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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years 09:07 - Jun 7 with 4568 views

Was chatting about this at the weekend, kinda whittled it down to 3 but happy to add others in if I have missed any glaring obvious ones.

2005 Ashes win
Liverpool in Istanbul
Miracle at Medinah

Personally, that summer of the Ashes was just magnificent, having lived in Oz in the late 90's and was given pelters by the Aussies whilst I lived there about our abject team, that one resonated with me for a number of reasons.

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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 17:13 - Jun 7 with 518 views

MerseyBlue

One that always sticks out for me was the longest tennis match in history at Wimbledon in 2010. Absolutely gripping.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E2%80%93Mahut_match_at_the_2010_Wimbledon_

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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 17:21 - Jun 7 with 500 views

Clapham_Junction

Iceland qualifying for the Euros and World Cup. By far the smallest country to have done either (Luxembourg has a population nearly double that of Iceland).

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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:14 - Jun 7 with 470 views

chicoazul

Adam Peaty’s last 5 years.

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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:28 - Jun 7 with 464 views

Radlett_blue

Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 11:15 - Jun 7 by Herbivore

Much as his record is insane it needs to be put in the context of clay being by far his favoured surface, whilst it is the weakest surface of his big rivals over that time. Still an amazing feat to sustain that level of dominance but I think that caveat is needed. Clay very much favours his game in a way that it doesn't favour the game of most of the other top players over the past 15 or so years.

That's a fair point. Nadal is the virtually unchallenged King of Clay partly because the surface suits his relentless, heavy top-spin game. I would love to see a clay court game between Nadal & Borg, with both players at their peaks.
At lease no-one seems to have mentioned Phil Taylor's 16 World Darts titles yet....

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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:47 - Jun 7 with 452 views

WeWereZombies

Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:14 - Jun 7 by chicoazul
Adam Peaty’s last 5 years.

I had to Google him before I recognised who he was:

'As a young boy, he developed an acute fear of water and was averse to being put in the bath after his brothers told him that sharks may come up through the plughole.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Peaty

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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:49 - Jun 7 with 449 views

chicoazul

Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:47 - Jun 7 by WeWereZombies
I had to Google him before I recognised who he was: 'As a young boy, he developed an acute fear of water and was averse to being put in the bath after his brothers told him that sharks may come up through the plughole.' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Peaty

Haha!
He’s amazing and he’s going to become the greatest British athlete in modern history.

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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:57 - Jun 7 with 438 views

CoachRob

Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:49 - Jun 7 by chicoazul
Haha! He’s amazing and he’s going to become the greatest British athlete in modern history.

Isn't that going to be Jason or Laura Kenny?

Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 19:11 - Jun 7 with 431 views

chicoazul

Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 18:57 - Jun 7 by CoachRob
Isn't that going to be Jason or Laura Kenny?

Sports where you sit down don’t count.

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Best sporting feat over the past 20 years on 20:29 - Jun 7 with 408 views

judespiveyg

The New England Patriots winning 6 Super Bowls, and having 18 consecutive winning seasons in a league with a salary cap.

Surprised to see lots of shouts for Murray tbh, exceptional Tennis player but two Wimbledon wins isn't nearly as impressive a sporting feat as Nadal winning 13 French Opens for example. I always feel British people are a bit fond of a plucky underdog as opposed to someone who actually wins. Lewis Hamilton is probably the most dominant British sportsman of the last decade but gets as much hate as he does admiration.

Edit: For some reason I interpreted best as 'most impressive'. My point still stands I think, but I'll have to go for Lewis Hamilton winning the 2008 world championship on the last lap, with Leicester winning the league, Stokes and Leach's partnership, and Spain winning the Euro 2012 final 4-0 starting 6 centre mids, close runners up.

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