Best Sports Moments of The (Correct) Decade From 2010-2019

[Monzanator 4,502]

Just now, heywoodu said:

 

Which is why Messi and C Ronaldo would have a chance....purely because football is the most known sport in the world and they're the best players (of the past decade, that is)  

 

It's USA. Mariano Rivera would stand a better chance of winning this poll than either Messi or Ronaldo

[heywoodu 15,141]

Just now, Monzanator said:

 

It's USA. Mariano Rivera would stand a better chance of winning this poll than either Messi or Ronaldo

I am well aware of that. Same thing when you google for 'best sports comebacks ever' and such, all you'll get is ESPN-like lists with a host of MLB/NBA/NFL (and one or two NHL) players nobody outside diehard fans of those sports has heard of outside the US  

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2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I am well aware of that. Same thing when you google for 'best sports comebacks ever' and such, all you'll get is ESPN-like lists with a host of MLB/NBA/NFL (and one or two NHL) players nobody outside diehard fans of those sports has heard of outside the US  

 

There's one obvious comeback I'd count here regardless. Probably the most impressive one since the 2005 UCL final:

 

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1 minute ago, Monzanator said:

 

There's one obvious comeback I'd count here regardless. Probably the most impressive one since the 2005 UCL final:

 

 

Yeah that's the thing with those lists: they make it seem like it's all bullshit, but somewhere in there, there actually are some true good things...even if it's only a few.

[Olympian1010 7,975]

16 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Not a fan of the dodging drug tests and fucking up the greatest moments of other people's careers because you're an incredibly sore loser and attacking referees because you're an incredibly sore loser. Even less of a fan when pulling the racism card every single freaking time something doesn't work out.

What she did to Osaka was shameful, but she also has a point. She has had to overcome extreme prejudice in the tennis world (and in the greater public eye). Also, dodging drug tests seems to be a new norm now so...

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3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

What she did to Osaka was shameful, but she also has a point. She has had to overcome extreme prejudice in the tennis world (and in the greater public eye). Also, dodging drug tests seems to be a new norm now so...

 

Serena came down as a very sore loser in that US final. She definitely lost the X factor she had in the 00s decade and let's be honest, if she wasn't one win away from Margaret Court's all-time GS record, she'd have retired already. She thinks she can still do it but with Osaka, Halep and Andreescu all beating her in GS final it's safe to say she's gone one bridge too far.

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8 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

What she did to Osaka was shameful, but she also has a point. She has had to overcome extreme prejudice in the tennis world (and in the greater public eye). Also, dodging drug tests seems to be a new norm now so...

 

No, she had no point in that final. At all. That was Mrs Spotlights being outperformed in every way by someone younger and she very clearly could not handle the attention being on someone else instead of her, so she got it back with the bitch act of the decade in at least the world of tennis.