Image Credits

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Photograph	Used on	Licence
Antoine Dellenbach from Paris, France	€222m, and the transfer that stopped being a ceiling and became a floor	CC BY-SA 2.0
Kleon3	1:59:40 in Vienna, and why it was never going to be a world record	CC BY-SA 4.0
Cyrus Saatsaz	402 three-pointers in a season, and the shot chart that emptied the mid-range	CC BY-SA 4.0
Nicolas Richoffer	5.2 seconds in Utah: the last shot of the second Chicago dynasty	CC BY-SA 4.0
Samuel Blanck	9.58, and a world record that has now stood for seventeen years	CC0
Dr. John Kelley, NOAA/NOS/COOPS	A college team, the best side in the world, and twenty minutes at Lake Placid	Public domain
Andrew1829	A final that finished level twice and was decided by a counting rule	CC BY-SA 4.0
Clavecin	A twenty-third major, won against her sister, in the first weeks of a pregnancy	Public domain
wileynorwichphoto	Fifth to first in one wet lap at Donington, in the wrong car	CC BY 2.0
Peter Woodentop	Five thousand to one: the season that has not been repeated and probably cannot be	CC BY-SA 2.0
Suraj100	Following on at Eden Gardens, and the 376 runs that stopped a great side	Public domain
Hugo Pérez Marsol	Four goals down and through: the only comeback of its kind in the European Cup	CC BY 2.0
Georgio	Four hours, forty-eight minutes and a final that finished in the dark	CC BY 2.0
Reuben Strayer	How a village game became India's second-biggest television sport	CC BY-SA 2.0
Dave Morton	One wicket, 359 runs and the innings that keeps getting harder to explain	Public domain
Acabashi	Six overs decide more T20 matches than the last six, and the market knows it	CC BY-SA 4.0
Chris Czermak	Ten matches, no sets dropped: the qualifier who won a major	CC BY 2.0
Rae Allen from Brisbane, Australia	The chase at the Gabba that ended a 32-year record, with a team nobody picked	CC BY 2.0
Sports Fan	The IPL is now a broadcast business that happens to stage cricket	Public domain
Edwin Martinez1	The return, not the serve: what actually built twenty-four majors	CC BY 2.0
Axel Schwenke	The seven years at Dortmund that changed how Europe defends	CC BY-SA 2.0
Brad Tutterow	The treble that was built in midfield, not in front of goal	CC BY 2.0
Ocoudis	The twisties, the withdrawal, and the three years that followed it	CC0
Jeremy Weate from Abuja, Nigeria	Thirteen hundred wickets between them, and a partnership built on being different	CC BY 2.0
Zoser	Three comebacks and a final: how Real Madrid won a European Cup they were outplayed in	CC BY 4.0
johnseb, via Flickr	Three-nil at half time in Istanbul, and six minutes that ended a Milan era	CC BY 2.0
Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Government of Japan	Twenty-eight singles majors, and a retirement that changed how a sport is covered	CC BY 4.0
Clavecin	Two championship points saved, and the first Wimbledon final decided at 12-12	Public domain
Beireke1	Two ways to win the same points: Alcaraz, Sinner and a rivalry of opposites	CC0

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