1) Maradona against England. This should need no explanation:
2) Phelps takes down Cavic again.
This has a story before you watch the race. 2009 Swimming World Championship was the championship that allows swimmers to wear a swimsuit that enables them to swim much faster but that swimsuit was announced to be banned after this championship. Most swimmers used these swimsuits and it was ridiculous because world records were broken on the semi-final races and even on the quarter-final races.
Michael Phelps rejects to wear the cheating swimsuit, and his rival Cavic comes to the final race with already breaking Phelps' world record on the semi final races with the cheating swimsuit. Phelps still wins without the cheating swimsuit, showing the world the importance of the heart of a champion:
3) Michael Johnson 200m Final 19.32 - 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
This man carried the 200m world record from 19.72 to 19.32. 200m is such a short distance and improving that record for 0.4 seconds is outstanding and unprecedented:
4) Legendary long jump athletics race between Mike Powell and Carl Lewis, Tokyo, 1991 World Championships. I recommend watching the full race, it was amazing. Men's athletics long jump world record was broken on this race after 23 years and this record is still alive today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_World_..._long_jump
"Since this competition, no athlete, including Powell and Lewis has legally jumped within 20 cm of Powell's world record."
2) Phelps takes down Cavic again.
This has a story before you watch the race. 2009 Swimming World Championship was the championship that allows swimmers to wear a swimsuit that enables them to swim much faster but that swimsuit was announced to be banned after this championship. Most swimmers used these swimsuits and it was ridiculous because world records were broken on the semi-final races and even on the quarter-final races.
Michael Phelps rejects to wear the cheating swimsuit, and his rival Cavic comes to the final race with already breaking Phelps' world record on the semi final races with the cheating swimsuit. Phelps still wins without the cheating swimsuit, showing the world the importance of the heart of a champion:
3) Michael Johnson 200m Final 19.32 - 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
This man carried the 200m world record from 19.72 to 19.32. 200m is such a short distance and improving that record for 0.4 seconds is outstanding and unprecedented:
4) Legendary long jump athletics race between Mike Powell and Carl Lewis, Tokyo, 1991 World Championships. I recommend watching the full race, it was amazing. Men's athletics long jump world record was broken on this race after 23 years and this record is still alive today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_World_..._long_jump
"Since this competition, no athlete, including Powell and Lewis has legally jumped within 20 cm of Powell's world record."