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Michael Phelps won by one hundredth of a second, the seventh of his record eight gold medals at a single Olympics.
National Aquatics Center (Water Cube), Beijing, China · 2008
Phelps touched ahead of Serbia's Milorad Čavić by 0.01 seconds at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing's Water Cube, then won the medley relay for an eighth gold, beating Mark Spitz's 1972 record.
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Europe recovered from 10–4 down to win the Ryder Cup, inspired by Ian Poulter and the memory of Seve Ballesteros.
Medinah Country Club, Medinah, United States · 2012
Trailing 10–6 going into the singles of the 2012 Ryder Cup near Chicago, Europe won eight and a half points on Sunday to retain the cup 14½–13½. Martin Kaymer holed the putt that sealed it.
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Ferenc Puskás scored four and Alfredo Di Stéfano three as Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7–3.
Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland · 1960
Real Madrid won their fifth European Cup in a row in 1960, beating Eintracht Frankfurt 7–3 in Glasgow in front of about 127,000 people, still a record crowd for the final.
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Mike Powell beat Carl Lewis with a jump of 8.95 m, breaking Bob Beamon's long jump world record from the 1960s.
National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · 1991
Powell's leap at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo finally broke Beamon's 23-year-old record, in a duel in which Lewis also jumped beyond the old mark with wind help. It still stands.
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A team of American students beat the hosts 17–3 to win Olympic rugby gold, and the sport was then dropped from the Games.
Stade Olympique de Colombes, Colombes, France · 1924
The United States beat France 17–3 in the 1924 Olympic rugby final at Colombes, near Paris, amid crowd trouble. Rugby union never returned, so the USA remain the reigning 15-a-side champions.
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