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The Tour de France covers approximately 3,500 km over 21 stages and is widely considered the hardest endurance race in sport.
Competitive eaters train by stretching their stomachs with large quantities of water and low-calorie foods.
Serena Williams won the 2017 Australian Open while eight weeks pregnant.
The NBA three-point line was adopted from the ABA (American Basketball Association) in 1979.
Michael Phelps won 23 Olympic gold medals — more than most countries have won in total.
The world record for holding one's breath underwater is over 24 minutes, achieved by Aleix Segura in 2016.
Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards became a cultural icon at the 1988 Calgary Olympics despite finishing last in every ski jump event.
The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
Synchronized swimming, now called artistic swimming, requires athletes to hold their breath for up to 3 minutes while performing choreography.
An NBA basketball court is exactly 94 feet long and 50 feet wide.
The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon, first held in 1897.
Weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze set a world record by lifting 265 kg in the clean and jerk at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
The first sub-4-minute mile was run by Roger Bannister on May 6, 1954, in Oxford.
Kenyan marathon runners dominate due to a combination of high-altitude training, genetics, and lean running economy.
Pelé is the only player to have won three FIFA World Cups (1958, 1962, 1970).
The NFL Super Bowl is consistently one of the most-watched annual sporting events in the United States.
The longest recorded point in a professional tennis match lasted over 40 shots.
Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, directly challenging Hitler's ideology of Aryan supremacy.
The highest recorded tennis match ever played took place at the summit of Mont Blanc in France.
A cricket match at the Test level can last up to 5 days and still end in a draw.
The world's highest golf course is the Yak golf course in Kupup, India, at 4,200 meters above sea level.
Formula 1 cars can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in about 2.6 seconds and brake back to 0 in 1.2 seconds.
Competitive rock climbers train grip strength to over 100 kg of fingertip force.
The longest professional boxing match lasted 110 rounds in 1893, before modern round limits were introduced.
Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history at the 1976 Montreal Games at age 14.
Surfer Garrett McNamara rode a 78-foot wave off Nazaré, Portugal, in 2011 — a record at the time.
BASE jumping stands for Buildings, Antennae, Spans (bridges), and Earth (cliffs).
The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896 with 14 nations participating.
Tiger Woods has won 82 PGA Tour events, tied for the all-time record with Sam Snead.
The average professional soccer player runs about 10–13 km per match.
Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single NBA game on March 2, 1962.
The deepest free dive ever recorded reached 253 meters (830 feet) by Herbert Nitsch in 2012.
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has been world champion since 2013 and has the highest Elo rating in history.
The fastest tennis serve ever recorded was by John Isner at 253 km/h (157.2 mph).
Competitive eater Joey Chestnut consumed 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the 2021 Nathan's contest.
The Tour de France cyclists burn approximately 8,000 calories per stage — more than 3 times a normal person's daily need.
Usain Bolt's top recorded speed during his 100m world record was 44.72 km/h (27.8 mph).
Free solo climber Alex Honnold climbed El Capitan (900m) in Yosemite without ropes in 3 hours 56 minutes in 2017.
The Olympic flame tradition was revived at the 1928 Amsterdam Games; the torch relay began at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Wayne Gretzky scored so many goals in his NHL career that if you remove all his goals, he would still be the all-time leader in points.
The marathon distance of 26.2 miles was standardized at the 1908 London Olympics to finish in front of the royal box.
Ancient cave paintings at Lascaux, France, are approximately 17,000 years old and show remarkable artistic sophistication.
The world's first public library was established in ancient Alexandria around 300 BC.
The first novel ever written in English is generally considered to be 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719.
The Blues music genre gave birth to jazz, rock and roll, R&B, and much of modern popular music.
Banksy, the anonymous street artist, has never been definitively identified despite decades of speculation.
The musical scale we use today was standardized at A = 440 Hz only in 1939 — different standards were common before then.
Chess likely originated in India around the 6th century AD before spreading to Persia and then Europe.
The word 'assassin' comes from the Arabic 'hashishin,' a term for a secretive Islamic sect.
The harmonica, also known as a mouth organ, was invented in Germany in the early 19th century.