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1. Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer OlympicsAt the 1972 Olympics, her acrobatics and open display of emotion—notably, she wiped tears from her face after a disastrous uneven bars routine—in contrast to the stereotypically cold eastern bloc athlete, captivated the Munich audiencesThe Soviet coaches and officials had designated X as the woman who could beat the Romanian prodigy, Nadia Comaneci, in the 1976 Summer Olympics at Montreal, but X was injured and her performances in the games were under-par, she also contributed to a marked change in the tenor of the sport itself. Prior to 1972, the athletes were generally older and the focus was on elegance rather than acrobatics. In the decade after X Olympic debut, the emphasis was reversed.

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3. Nicknamed the "Russian Bear,"he went undefeated in international competition spanning from 1987 to 2000. X went the last six years of his unbeaten streak without giving up a point. He was revered for his extraordinary strength and unprecedented success in international competition. He is universally considered to be the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time. X first loss in 13 years of international competition, and first lost point in 6 years, occurred in the 2000 Summer Olympics wrestling finals against Rulon Gardner. Another nickname after famous king.Give either

• Alexander Karelin(accept alexander the great)

• Shaq Vs. is an American reality television show starring American basketball star Shaquille O'Neal of the Cleveland Cavaliers. It began airing onABC August 18, 2009.

• Shaquille O'Neal claims to be "the greatest athlete" and challenged numerous top athletes in their own sports, such as Pittsburgh Steelersquarterback Ben Roethlisberger in football, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, and beach volleyball Olympians Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. O'Neal reportedly stole the idea from Steve Nash, who hired an entertainment lawyer to address the issue and is now listed as an executive producer of the show

• Ok too bored to do the rest..but make sure revilino shaq croyff and that shot between legs (by federer is called something) is included mickelson

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• X (September 8, 1910 – December 16, 1977) won a gold medal at the 1932 and the 1936 Olympic Games. His family was based in Gwalior. His son, Chandrashekhar played hockey. X was the younger brother of Y. Even their dad played hockey

• X believed in dressing well and, just before the team was to leave for the 1932 Olympics, he refused to go because he did not have the right clothes for the occasion Y, had to look around for some new clothes before X finally agreed to go. He also never argued with the umpire on any umpiring decision. After the final of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Germans were so impressed with him that they named a street after him.

• The X stadium , named after X, was originally a hockey stadium before it was converted into a cricket venue in the 1980s.

• X-roop singh• Y-Dhyan chand

• A week before the 1976 German Grand Prix at the fearsome Nürburgring Nordschleife (even though he was the fastest driver on the circuit at that time), X tried to boycott the circuit, largely due to the safety arrangements. Most of the other drivers voted against it and the race went ahead. On the second lap at the very fast left kink before Bergwerk, X’s Ferrari swerved off the track, due to a suspected rear suspension failure, hit an embankment and rolled back into the path of Brett Lunger'sSurtees-Ford car. X’s Ferrari burst into flames, but, unlike Lunger, he was trapped in the wreckage, he later lapsed into a coma and a priest administered the last rites.X survived but wat was the iconic thing that became part of X’s legacy happened after this crash

• ANS X--Lauda suffered extensive scarring from the burns, Since the accident he wears a red cap to cover the scars on his head.So we are looking for lauda’s iconic red cap as the answer

ID Iconic depection of an event

• ANS—pee wee reese and jackie robinson

• Reese refused to sign a petition that threatened a boycott if Robinson joined the team. When Robinson joined the Dodgers in 1947 and traveled with them during their first road trip, he was heckled by fans inCincinnati, Ohio. During pre-game infield practice, Reese, the captain of the team, went over to Robinson, engaged him in conversation, and put his arm around his shoulder in a gesture of support which silenced the crowd. This gesture is depicted in a bronze sculpture of Reese and Robinson, created by sculptor William Behrends

• While in the army, he entered the armed forces boxing tournament as a heavyweight and ran up a 12-0 record before being waylaid by a broken ankle. Future World Professional Boxing Champion Gene Tunney won the tournament. In later years, Kelly would kid Tunney that: "Aren't you lucky I broke my ankle?"

• • • In 1920, Kelly applied to race in the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta. At the

time, he was one of the most popular figures in the sport: He had won six U.S. National Championships and in the midst of his 126-race winning streak.[1]

• At the time, the Henley regatta, which is held annually on the River Thames in Henley, England, was the most prestigious event in rowing. Kelly's application was rejected in part because he had done manual labor as a bricklayer. The rejection became widely publicized. This led Kelly to seek and gain redemption by going to the 1920 Summer Olympics which he had originally not planned to attend.

• is the only rower who is a member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the United States Rowing Hall of Fame, having been elected in 1956 at the same time as his son Jack, Jr.

• BILL ORILEY• • And when he went to the teachers' college at Sydney University in his late teens he was more interested in such

events as the hop, step and jump, in which he held the state record. According to Fingleton's account he would probably have been lost to cricket had he not been asked to make up the numbers in a Sydney junior match and, with a method that at first made everyone giggle, whipped out the opposition.

• • • In the summer of 1925-26, the young O'Reilly, by now an undergraduate at the teachers' college in Sydney

University, met the man whose destiny was to be linked with his for ever. O'Reilly's own account of this remains a classic. He was passing through Bowral Station on his way home to Wingello for his summer holiday when he heard his name being called down the platform. He put his head out of the carriage window and was told to get out at once: Wingello were playing at Bowral and needed him.

• • How was I to know that I was about to cross swords with the greatest cricketer that ever set foot on a cricket field ?

He didn't have it all his own way, let me tell you. Well, not for the first couple of overs, anyway. By the close of play, 17-year-old Don Bradman was 234 not out. The match resumed a week later, according to the local custom. The sun shone, the birds sang sweetly and the flowers bloomed as never before. I bowled him first ball with a leg-break which came from the leg stump to hit the off bail. Suddenly cricket was the best game in the whole wide world.

• • . While Sir Donald walked the corridors of cricketing power O'Reilly was the rumbustious backbencher.

• X's mother felt that he wasn't the most talented cricketer she'd seen. She reserved that accolade for Mervin, her other son. Mention it to Mervin and he says: "Nah. I was probably more wristy and stylish but X was something else."

Football was Mervin’s preferred sport. "We played a lot of football. X was in defense, me in midfield. X had a great leap. He could clear from dangerous positions. He would often come from behind and score. Football lost a great defender in X."

X?

• Ans viv richards

• In the 20th century, only 2 players have claim to this feat. In the 2000's, 3 players are part of this unique club - Mashrafe Mortaza and Nazmul Hossain of Bangladesh, and Yasir Ali of Pakistan. Mashrafe's achievement came in a test against Zimbabwe in the 2001-02 season; Yasir Ali's in a test against Bangladesh in 2004; and Nazmul Hossain in a test against India in Chittagong (2005).

But as a result of a 1888-89 Port Elizabeth test between South Africa and England, 13 players (11 from SA) were included in this list.

What feat?

• Their test debut is also their first class debut. The 1888 test was SA’s 1st test match.

• The 1979 Le Mans 24hr race was won by the Kremer racing team's Porsche 935 K3 driven by Klaus Ludwig and American brothers Bill and Don Whittington. The big news was however the second place finish by the car entered and driven by Dick Barbour, Rolf Stemmelen and X. The Kremer K3 won covering 307 laps ahead of the 299 laps of the 2nd place cars. Dick Barbour and his team-mates did not go away empty handed as they won the IMSA category in which they were racing.

When X started to be a professional driver in 1972. He had won his first SCCA national title in 1976 in the D-Production category, with a C-Production class championship in 1979. He had began his entry into top-class professional with a 5th-place finish in the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1977, wearing his exotic dial Rolex Daytona Cosmograph and his car was a Ferrari Daytona!

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• As the result of a round of golf with a dean, X got to be a guest lecturer on Shakespeare at Yale University. X came to Shakespeare by accident in WWI when his bunkmate vomited on him and apologized to him by giving him Hamlet. X soon found himself exploring more of Shakespeare, and even claimed to have read Shakespeare before each fight.

X's Yale stint led to a play X / Shakespeare in Six Rounds (2007). The play ends in X's self revelation about the his bout with Dempsey. Dempsey, who had been unpopular suddenly became the public darling while X became unpopular due to his technical KO win.

X explains that, like many of Shakespeare's anti-heroes, he was unable to make himself loveable in the eyes of the public.

X?

• Gene Tunney

• The X are believed to have first used the "Ka Mate" Y in 1906.• This Y is commonly said to have been composed by Te Rauparaha

of Ngāti Toa to commemorate his escape from death during an incident in 1810. Chased by his enemies he hid in a food-storage pit under the skirt of a woman. He climbed out to find someone standing over him, who, instead of killing Te Rauparaha, turned out to be another chief friendly to him. In relief Te Rauparaha performed this ancient Y, which had been performed all through Aotearoa for centuries (Ko Nga Moteatea, 1853). The story of Te Rauparaha was merely woven into several older stories about this Y. There is no “official” Y for X, but Te Rauparaha's “Ka Mate” is generally favoured though sometimes there have been variations.

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• In 1946, Danny Biasone sent a $5,000 check to the National Basketball League offices in Chicago, and the Syracuse Nationals became the largely Midwest-based league's easternmost team.[1] In 1949, the Nationals were one of seven NBL teams that merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA. In 1955, the Nationals (led by forward Dolph Schayes) won the NBA championship.

• By the early 1960s, the NBA's Nationals were struggling. Syracuse was the last of the medium-sized cities, but it was too small for a professional team to be profitable. Paper magnate Irv Kosloff bought the Nationals from Danny Biasone and moved them to X in 1963. The NBA thus returned to X one year after the X Warriors had left for San Francisco. A contest was held to decide on their new name and the winner was Walt Stahlberg. Their name was changed to the “Yers", after Y, the year the Z was signed in X. ID X

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• This dubious distinction was held by X when Y took the distinction.X’s score of 164 is still the second highest score on Test début by an Australian making him the youngest Australian batsman to score a Test century, a record beaten by Neil Harvey in 1948

Now Y was a slow left arm orthodox bowler. He was one of his country’s school of left arm bowlers.

Y’s teammates dedicated their unexpected worldcup victory to Y

Tell me this dubious distinction

• X—Archiebald jackson• Y—Manjural Islam Rana

• youngest Test cricketers to die

• X, 100m sprint races and broke three world records enroute to winning 1932 olympic race. She started 1936 olympics as favourite to win but an American, Helen Stephens won the race and was consequently accused of being a man. Despite the claims , the examination showed that she was a woman and she was allowed to retain the gold.

• X was a bystander in an armed robbery in Cleveland, Ohio on 4 December 1980, and was killed at the age of 69. An autopsy showed that she possessed male[genitalia, although some sources suggest she also displayed some female characteristics Detailed investigation has also revealed that she had both an XX and an XY pair of chromosomes.

• The controversy on her biological sex remains unresolved, and the situation is further complicated by the fact that many earlier documents, including her birth record, state that she was female.[3] There was also some controversy as to whether all her records and achievements should be erased.

• The case of X is often regarded as one of the reasons why the IOC has gradually dropped gender determination tests.In the end, such a requirement was dropped prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics, as it was decided that genetic gender is not necessarily equal to social or biological gender.However, the issue is once again of importance with the International Association of Athletics Federations ordering and conducting gender determination testing on South African Caster Semenya, in August 2009, the results of which have yet to be formally released.

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ANSWERS• 4 consecutive Olympic titles — Al Oerter• Streak started 1956 Melbourne, Australia• Streak ended 1976 Montreal, Canada

• 9 consecutive World Cup titles — Cuba• Streak started 1984 Havana, Cuba• Streak ended 2007 Taipei, Taiwan

• 46 matches — Guillermo Vilas (Open era record)• Streak started July 11, 1977 (defeated Alvin Gardener in Kitzbühel)• Streak ended Oct 1, 1977 (ended by Ilie Nastase in Aix en Provence)• Note: Open era winning streaks on different playing surfaces are also recognized.

Roger Federer currently holds the record for the longest winning streak on grass courts (65 matches) and hard courts (56 matches),Rafael Nadal currently holds the record for the longest winning streak on clay courts (81 matches)

• 74 matches — Martina Navratilova• Streak started February 1984 (defeated Nancy Yeargin)• Streak ended December 1984 (ended by Helena Suková)• Men's 400m Hurdles• 122 races — Edwin Moses• Streak started September 2, 1977 Dusseldorf, West Germany• Streak ended June 4, 1987 Madrid, Spain (second to Danny Harris)

• 33 games — 1971-1972 Los Angeles Lakers• Streak started November 5, 1971 (defeated Baltimore Bullets, 110-

106)• Streak ended January 7, 1972 (ended by Milwaukee Bucks, 104-120)

• 15 games — Spain[10]

• Streak started June 26, 2008 (defeated Russia, 3-0)• Streak ended June 24, 2009 (ended by United States, 0-2)

• 555 matches — Jahangir Khan• Streak started 1981 (defeated Geoff Hunt)• Streak ended 1986 (ended by Ross Norman)• Note: This is the longest winning streak in sports history (in number of wins).

• 6 consecutive titles at Olympics Games — China• Streak started 1988 Seoul, South Korea (Inaugural Competition)• 8 consecutive titles at World Championships — China• Streak started 1995, Tianjin, China

• 25 Cups — United States• Streak started 1851 (inaugural race), beating England• Streak ended 1983 (beaten by Australia II from Australia).• Note: With 132 years, this is the longest winning streak (in years) in

sports history.

• Undertaker wrestlemania streak 17-0• Test• 16 matches — Australia• Streak started October 17, 1999 (defeated Zimbabwe by 10 wickets at

Harare) (scorecard)• Streak ended March 15, 2001 (lost to India by 171 runs at Calcutta)

(scorecard)