Also not a quite a record but it may never happen again.
LV winning FL, NXN in same season and going sub 4/sub 8:30 in the same year without super spikes. This level of dominance will never be broken. The last true king of distance at the highschool level before NXN started diluting the xc fields
Honnold free soloing El Capitan
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westsouthrunner wrote:
Michael Jordan's finals record. Impossible to surpass even if you literally have more finals wins. Because apparently peak basketball was in the 90s and players never got better since then. Also the rule changes since then we're always to just to create inferior basketball. Players accurately shooting from half court now just aren't skilled enough to have dominated back then.
I am NOT being sarcastic
Jordan doesn't even have the best finals record without a loss during that era. That would be Robert Horry.
Harold #1 wrote:
Honnold free soloing El Capitan
These ideas that an assist in hockey is evening remotely worth any consideration compared to Honnold, is laughable.
Take tennis, baseball, or ice hockey, these are incredibly contrived sports. Wayne Gretzky helped a guy sliding around on skates shoot a non-sphere into a net a bunch of times. If he failed to do so, he was not marked for a non-assist. Hockey doesn’t even keep track of turnovers. Alex Honnold climbed El Cap without a frickin rope! Turnover=exploding against a rock.
If you can’t see how irrelevant Gretzky is compared to Honnold, you haven’t seen El Cap in person.
People have swam across sees, survived pummeling by Mike Tyson, ran 4:37 for 26 miles. Baseball, hockey, pshhhh.
Heather Mackay in squash
Kim Jong Un - 18 holes-in-one, in one round of golf.
TAS the dressed as banana 5K.
Harold #1 wrote:
Honnold free soloing El Capitan
When do feats of skill crossover into sport? Hillary's first ascent to Mt. Everest? Emilia Earhart's first-female solo flight across the Atlantic? Kasparov's chess prowess? Pickleball?
Ja Morant wrote:
Cy Young's 511 wins.
Could be. Hoss Radburn's 59 wins in the 1884 NL season is a good candidate. Really, there are so many possibilities that there's no way to have a definite answer. But in track there are many records which literally can never be broken because the events are no longer contested. My college track and cross country coach will go to his grave as our school's record holder in the 330 intermediate hurdles. I don't know who has the record for the standing long jump but he's never going to lose it.
Rocky Marciano 48-0
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Budmir Sobat
Wr breath holding
24 minutes and 37 seconds.
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Deno wrote:
Rocky Marciano 48-0
Dan Gable was 117-0, hadn't lost a match in high school OR college. Then this happened:
There are tons of MLB longevity records that will never be touched.
1. Pete Rose 4256 hits.
2. Ricky Henderson 1270 stolen bases.
3. Cal Ripkin, Jr 2,632 consecutive games played
There are a lot of pitching records that won't be touched just because of the way rotations work now:
Alan
Secretariat's triple crown.
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Zippy Chippy. 0 wins in 100 thoroughbred horse races from 1994 to 2004. It will be next to impossible for a horse to run in that many races and never win.
Satchel Paige - 55 no-hitters
Any track record in an event that is no longer contested. 200m hurdles record will probably never be broken in official competition.