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1. Mid-September 2002, we won the inaugural World Extreme Ironing Championships.
2. We are astonishingly good at Tiddlywinks, though Larry Khan (USA) is pretty special
3. In 2006, after 4 years of Canadian dominance, Bob Fowley from the UK won the World Rock Paper Scissors Championship
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2. We are astonishingly good at Tiddlywinks, though Larry Khan (USA) is pretty special
3. In 2006, after 4 years of Canadian dominance, Bob Fowley from the UK won the World Rock Paper Scissors Championship
We rock!
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He is indeed the only Olympian to win 5 straight gold medals. There are people who have won more medals and at least one who has won the same number of golds but with a bigger time gap between the first and the last but he is thus far unique I believe.
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Ha, Elephant World Polo is where it is at for the pinacle of sporting achievement, Scotland and England seem to keep trading the World Championship.
In answer to the original question I'd have to go with Roger Bannisters four minute mile.
Steve Redgrave's fifth straight gold at the Olympics.
I'm tempted to nominate Chris Hoy for the last place but I'm not sure his results count as significant for the whole of the UK - it depends on how you classify it, but however you view it he is a quite exceptional cyclist. Britain's track cycling team has been in imperious form for the past few major events and haven't just beaten the rest, they've annihilated them.
Significant is quite a difficult thing to pin down as it suggests not only that it was a fantastic achievement but that it changed something or had a sizeable impact.
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Significane, be it on a world or national level, is still significance.. so..
1966 World Cup
1971 Chay Blyth became first person to sail non-stop westwards around the world.
1984 Toville and Dean @ Sarajevo olympics (Fact is it remains the highest score of all time with twelve sixes)
1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster - One of a number of stadium disasters that changed the face of british football (the other being bradford city in 1985)
1966 World Cup
1971 Chay Blyth became first person to sail non-stop westwards around the world.
1984 Toville and Dean @ Sarajevo olympics (Fact is it remains the highest score of all time with twelve sixes)
1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster - One of a number of stadium disasters that changed the face of british football (the other being bradford city in 1985)
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As said, Hillsborough.
All others are just meh.
All others are just meh.
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World Cup would be up there.
Rugby World Cup would be quite important.
I'd say England winning the Ashes, but it's between two countries who have unsurprisingly won it from each other over the years. They also play every two years.
Hillsborough, it's a pity that such a tragedy was the final smack in the face that English football really needed.
Rugby World Cup would be quite important.
I'd say England winning the Ashes, but it's between two countries who have unsurprisingly won it from each other over the years. They also play every two years.
Hillsborough, it's a pity that such a tragedy was the final smack in the face that English football really needed.
like 1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster
which happened a lot earlier than hillsborough
Yes but although tragic, it didn't have the profound effect that Hillsborough had did it?
Euro96 - it was the moment when football really changed into the current big money circus and started to become viewed more as entertainment. Fans priced out of attending, huge corporate sponsorship deals, TV money completely driving the game.
Hillsborough may have been the straw that broke the camel's back and prompted a full review and reform of British football stadia, but don't forget Ibrox 1971 or Valley Parade 1985. Never forget.
Hillsborough may have been the straw that broke the camel's back and prompted a full review and reform of British football stadia, but don't forget Ibrox 1971 or Valley Parade 1985. Never forget.
It didn't have the same widespread affect on English football that Hillsborough did.
It's a shame it took such horrible events to wake people up.