SportsOnehttp://sportsone.world/Recent content on SportsOneHugoen-INSat, 15 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0530Five thousand to one: the season that has not been repeated and probably cannot behttp://sportsone.world/posts/leicester-2015-16/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/leicester-2015-16/Leicester City were quoted at 5,000-1 to win the Premier League in August 2015. They finished ten points clear, and the conditions that allowed it closed almost immediately.Four hours, forty-eight minutes and a final that finished in the darkhttp://sportsone.world/posts/federer-nadal-2008/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:15:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/federer-nadal-2008/Nadal beat Federer 9-7 in the fifth at Wimbledon in 2008, twice interrupted by rain and completed in light too poor to continue much longer.9.58, and a world record that has now stood for seventeen yearshttp://sportsone.world/posts/bolt-berlin-9-58/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:40:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/bolt-berlin-9-58/Usain Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.58 seconds in Berlin in August 2009, taking eleven hundredths off his own record. Nobody has been within a tenth of it since.One wicket, 359 runs and the innings that keeps getting harder to explainhttp://sportsone.world/posts/headingley-2019-stokes/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/headingley-2019-stokes/England were bowled out for 67 in the first innings at Headingley in 2019 and still won the Test. Ben Stokes finished 135 not out, with Jack Leach on one.The treble that was built in midfield, not in front of goalhttp://sportsone.world/posts/manchester-city-treble/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:20:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/manchester-city-treble/Manchester City won the league, the FA Cup and the Champions League in 2023. The tactical decision that made it possible was moving a full back into the centre.Two championship points saved, and the first Wimbledon final decided at 12-12http://sportsone.world/posts/djokovic-federer-2019/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:40:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/djokovic-federer-2019/Djokovic beat Federer 13-12 in the fifth in 2019, the first year a final set tie-break existed at Wimbledon. Federer served for the match at 8-7.The twisties, the withdrawal, and the three years that followed ithttp://sportsone.world/posts/biles-tokyo-2020/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:45:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/biles-tokyo-2020/Simone Biles withdrew from five finals in Tokyo after losing her spatial awareness mid-air. She came back and won again, which is the part the sport is still learning from.Four goals down and through: the only comeback of its kind in the European Cuphttp://sportsone.world/posts/barcelona-remontada/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/barcelona-remontada/Barcelona lost 4-0 in Paris and won the return 6-1, the winner arriving in the ninety-fifth minute. No side had overturned a four-goal first-leg deficit before, and none has since.The chase at the Gabba that ended a 32-year record, with a team nobody pickedhttp://sportsone.world/posts/gabba-2021-india/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:10:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/gabba-2021-india/India arrived in Brisbane in January 2021 without four of their first-choice bowlers, chased 328 on the final day and ended Australia’s unbeaten run at the ground.Ten matches, no sets dropped: the qualifier who won a majorhttp://sportsone.world/posts/raducanu-2021-us-open/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:55:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/raducanu-2021-us-open/Emma Raducanu came through three qualifying rounds and seven in the main draw at the 2021 US Open without losing a set. Nobody had done it before.1:59:40 in Vienna, and why it was never going to be a world recordhttp://sportsone.world/posts/kipchoge-sub-two/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/kipchoge-sub-two/Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon distance in under two hours in October 2019. The conditions that made it possible are exactly the ones that disqualified it.Three comebacks and a final: how Real Madrid won a European Cup they were outplayed inhttp://sportsone.world/posts/real-madrid-2022/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:15:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/real-madrid-2022/Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City were all ahead on aggregate and all went out. Then Madrid beat Liverpool with a quarter of the possession.A final that finished level twice and was decided by a counting rulehttp://sportsone.world/posts/world-cup-2019-final/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:45:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/world-cup-2019-final/England and New Zealand tied at 241 at Lord’s in 2019, tied the super over at 15, and the trophy went on boundaries. The rule was changed the following year.A college team, the best side in the world, and twenty minutes at Lake Placidhttp://sportsone.world/posts/miracle-on-ice-1980/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:05:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/miracle-on-ice-1980/The United States beat the Soviet Union 4-3 in the 1980 Olympic ice hockey tournament. It was a medal-round game, not a final, and it was not shown live.A twenty-third major, won against her sister, in the first weeks of a pregnancyhttp://sportsone.world/posts/serena-2017-australian/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:25:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/serena-2017-australian/Serena Williams beat Venus 6-4 6-4 in the 2017 Australian Open final. She disclosed months later that she had been pregnant throughout the tournament.Three-nil at half time in Istanbul, and six minutes that ended a Milan erahttp://sportsone.world/posts/istanbul-2005-milan/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:45:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/istanbul-2005-milan/Milan led the 2005 Champions League final 3-0 at the interval and lost it on penalties. The side that had been the best in Europe for three years never quite recovered its authority.The return, not the serve: what actually built twenty-four majorshttp://sportsone.world/posts/djokovic-24-majors/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:10:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/djokovic-24-majors/Novak Djokovic’s record is usually explained by flexibility and defence. The numbers point somewhere less romantic — the second-serve return.5.2 seconds in Utah: the last shot of the second Chicago dynastyhttp://sportsone.world/posts/jordan-1998-finals/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:20:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/jordan-1998-finals/Michael Jordan scored 45 in game six of the 1998 NBA Finals and won it with a jumper in the final seconds. It was his last act as a Chicago Bull.Following on at Eden Gardens, and the 376 runs that stopped a great sidehttp://sportsone.world/posts/kolkata-2001-laxman/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:20:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/kolkata-2001-laxman/India were 232 behind and asked to bat again. VVS Laxman made 281, Rahul Dravid 180, and Australia’s sixteen-match winning run ended three days later.Fifth to first in one wet lap at Donington, in the wrong carhttp://sportsone.world/posts/senna-donington-1993/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/senna-donington-1993/Ayrton Senna passed four cars on the opening lap of the 1993 European Grand Prix in changing conditions, and won by more than a minute in a car that was not the quickest.The seven years at Dortmund that changed how Europe defendshttp://sportsone.world/posts/dortmund-gegenpressing/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/dortmund-gegenpressing/Jürgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund won two Bundesliga titles with a wage bill a fraction of Bayern’s, using an idea that is now taught everywhere.Thirteen hundred wickets between them, and a partnership built on being differenthttp://sportsone.world/posts/anderson-broad-new-ball/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:05:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/anderson-broad-new-ball/James Anderson and Stuart Broad shared a new ball for over a decade. The reason it worked was that almost nothing about how they bowled was the same.Two ways to win the same points: Alcaraz, Sinner and a rivalry of oppositeshttp://sportsone.world/posts/alcaraz-sinner/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:50:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/alcaraz-sinner/One plays with variety and improvisation, the other with the flattest ball-striking on tour. What makes the match-up worth watching is that neither style is beating the other.402 three-pointers in a season, and the shot chart that emptied the mid-rangehttp://sportsone.world/posts/curry-three-point/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/curry-three-point/Golden State went 73-9 in 2015-16 and Stephen Curry became the first unanimous MVP. The arithmetic he demonstrated has since reshaped every roster in the league.The IPL is now a broadcast business that happens to stage crickethttp://sportsone.world/posts/ipl-franchise-economics/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:40:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/ipl-franchise-economics/Media rights, not gate receipts or merchandise, are what the league sells. Everything about the calendar and the format follows from that.€222m, and the transfer that stopped being a ceiling and became a floorhttp://sportsone.world/posts/neymar-transfer-record/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/neymar-transfer-record/Paris Saint-Germain more than doubled the world record to sign Neymar in 2017. The lasting effect was on every fee underneath it.How a village game became India's second-biggest television sporthttp://sportsone.world/posts/pro-kabaddi-league/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:20:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/pro-kabaddi-league/Pro Kabaddi launched in 2014 with a format built for broadcast. A decade on, the audience is enormous and the talent pipeline is still catching up.Twenty-eight singles majors, and a retirement that changed how a sport is coveredhttp://sportsone.world/posts/wheelchair-tennis/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/wheelchair-tennis/Shingo Kunieda retired in 2023 as the most successful wheelchair player in the game’s history. The attention his career drew has outlasted it.Six overs decide more T20 matches than the last six, and the market knows ithttp://sportsone.world/posts/t20-powerplay-batting/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:15:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/t20-powerplay-batting/Fielding restrictions make the powerplay the only phase where a batter is guaranteed space. Sides have finally started paying for players who can use it.