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Sport
Boris Becker, 17 years 7 months old in 1985.
Jon Rahm of Spain won the U.S. Open in 2021
Max Verstappen, who was 17 years and 166 days old when he won the Australian Grand Prix on March 15th, 2015.
With thanks to Claire Ambler, Billy Painter and Richard Painter for updating the answer to this question
With thanks to Claire Ambler, Billy Painter and Richard Painter for updating the answer to this question
The men’s cycling road race covers 250 km (155.3 miles).
With thanks to Mike Healy and Carol Balster for fine tuning the question and updating the answer
With thanks to Mike Healy and Carol Balster for fine tuning the question and updating the answer
Baseball and softball
With thanks to Matt Jones for fine tuning the question
With thanks to Matt Jones for fine tuning the question
Rocky Marciano
With thanks to Geoff Swaine for clarifying the question
With thanks to Geoff Swaine for clarifying the question
Chamonix (France)
It’s the period between Olympic Games (currently refers to a period beginning on January 1st of the year in which the Summer Olympics take place and lasting four years).
The UEFA European Football Championship
Karate
Tug of War (Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920).
The New York Yankees have won 27 times in 40 appearances (to 2021).
The traditional uniform
Kobe Bryant (LA Lakers)
Bumps or hills
Greece always marches first and the host nation last
Evander Holyfield
Chicago in 1926
From which city is the Gimnastic football (soccer) team?
Giacomo Agostini and Angel Nieto
Guillermo Cañas (Argentinean)
Finland (now called Rally Finland, Suomen ralli, or Finska rallyt).
The Spanish Basketball team
Autodromo de Estoril
Paul Casey and Luke Donald
Sweden, in Sweden, 1958.
With thanks to Karim Nanji, Entertainments Officer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, for correcting this question
With thanks to Karim Nanji, Entertainments Officer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, for correcting this question
Gymnastics; it’s a type of vault
With thanks to Kirsty Taylor for correcting this question
With thanks to Kirsty Taylor for correcting this question
White and orange
With thanks to Ted Bollard from Dublin for updating the answer to this question
With thanks to Ted Bollard from Dublin for updating the answer to this question
Inventing basketball
A men’s team has ten players, a women’s has twelve.
With thanks to Diane Peake for her assistance in correcting this question
With thanks to Diane Peake for her assistance in correcting this question
No brakes and only one gear
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With thanks to Mike Jones for amending the answer to this question
Cameroon
Foil, epee and sabre, although until 1989 only the foil was used in world championships
With thanks to Susanne for correcting this question
With thanks to Susanne for correcting this question
Graham Hill in 1962 and 1968. Jim Clark in 1963 and 1965.
Phil Hill in 1961
Nadia Comaneci in 1976.
Greg Lemond of USA in 1986
Captain Matthew Webb in 1875
Chukkas (or Chukkers)
With thanks to Dave Love and Andy Bell for correcting this question
With thanks to Dave Love and Andy Bell for correcting this question
Athens 1906 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the modern games. (Not recognised by the IOC.)
The Davis Cup
The Rugby World Cup
Bicycle moto cross
Nadia Comaneci for gymnastics in the 1976 Montreal games.
Table tennis
A wedge (pitching wedge)
22: Fifteen red balls and white, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black.
The Superbowl
Dick Fosbury developed what is now called the Fosbury Flop
En passant (a special capture made immediately after a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had only moved one square forward)
Eldrick
The Commonwealth Games (5,000 athletes v 10,000 at the last Olympics).
Croquet
Stephen Roche
The Indianapolis 500
Renault (rebranded as Alpine in 2021).
A quarter of a mile (or 1320ft or 402m)
Football World Cup
Sumo wrestling
Boris Becker in 1985
George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.
Red and yellow cards
Four
With thanks to Dave Harrop for correcting this question
With thanks to Dave Harrop for correcting this question
Jacques Anquetil, Lance Armstrong, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain, Eddie Merckx
With thanks to Lynne and Thierry in Paris, and Steve Hall in Angola for correcting this question
With thanks to Lynne and Thierry in Paris, and Steve Hall in Angola for correcting this question
Copa Libertadores