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10.
No Fighter Left Behind Let’s start out with this Sambo fighter.
His name is Stsiapan Papou and he’s from Belarus.
During this fight, he was up against Amil Gasimov, a fighter from Azerbaijan.
Things went a little bit different than expected, when Papou noticed that Gassimov couldn’t
get up.
Victory may be sweet, but there’s nothing quite as bitter as seeing your fellow opponent
down once the fight is over.
Sure, some choose to gloat, maybe walk away even, but not Papou.
Instead, he took Gasimov on his shoulders and carried him out of the ring.
9.
Danny The Gull King Danny Vukovic, a Sydney FC goalkeeper called
out to the referee during a match.
Not because someone had fouled him, not because he needed to address something related to
the state of the match, but because there had been a terrible accident.
During play, the ball had struck a gull that was flying over the field and it fell.
Vukovic was not about to continue as if nothing happened and requested that the game be paused
until he had carried the bird to safety.
Needless to say, everyone, including that gull, ended that game with a massive crush
on Vukovic.
8.
The Olympic Spirit There’s something about the Olympics that
kicks everything up a notch.
For some, it’s the intensity and competitiveness of the sport.
For others, it’s the spirit of companionship and love for the game.
For Nikki Hamblin, a Kiwi athlete, it was the latter that led her to sacrifice her own
race to help an American runner after she fell and injured herself, causing her to fall
as well.
Hamblin didn’t think twice about it, she stood and helped D’Angostino to get her
bearings and once the race had ended, they embraced with tears of joy.
7.
Kan Got Your Tongue?
Gusev’s story is a total nightmare.
A Dinamo football player, he’s used to some rough play, but when he was accidentally hit
by the goalkeeper upon attempting a goal, no one could have predicted what was about
to happen next.
Immediately, he was on the ground.
He lost consciousness and swallowed his tongue.
Things could have been over for him in minutes, but Jaba Kankava, a player on the opposing
team, ran to him within seconds, quicker than the crowd could even figure out what had happened,
and saved his life.
Kankava took it like a man, stepping away once Gusev was out of danger and being super
humble about the fact that he had just saved a man’s life.
6.
More Crying In Baseball If you ask me, baseball is one of the sports
that isn’t emotional enough.
We need more crying in the batter’s box.
I think you’ll agree after seeing Cal Ripken Jr.’s final appearance to the plate during
a game against the Red Sox in 2001.
The Orioles crowd went so crazy for him, continuing to cheer and thank him for his 21 seasons
devoted to their home team.
It was so much that the ovation drew him, and me, to tears.
5.
The Best Way To Reach The Finish Line Meghan Vogel is the person you want at your
side when you have a problem.
For real, if she is this good to her fellow opponents, she has to be the best friend in
the world.
See, athletes sometimes forget that they’re showing the world not just their skills during
a sports event, but also their integrity, and boy did Vogel show us her true colors
in the best way.
During a race in the 3200-meter finals, she carried her opponent Arden MacMath across
the finish line after a collapse.
Vogel decided she wouldn’t come in last place as a result, or rather, that they both
would.
4.
Messi Wins Again Listen, Messi is to winning like Lebron is
to balding.
They’re doing it all the time, we love them for it, and they lift us up as human beings.
One thing that Messi does better than many soccer players though, is show humility.
He saw a young Afghani fan wearing a plastic bag with the number 10 on it, resembling his
jersey and home country and he couldn’t help himself, I mean who could?
The cuteness!
He had to send him a real jersey, and little Murtaza Ahmadi got a signed Barcelona jersey
from his real-life hero.
3.
Michael Jordan Comes Back When our favorite athletes suddenly decide
to switch sports, we get thrown off.
“You're a basketball player, you can’t switch to baseball, you don’t have the body!”
Well, that’s what happened after Michael Jordan’s father died in 1993.
He had an epiphany and decided to retire from basketball to pursue baseball instead.
We never did see him get in the game, but after the time he took away from sports, he
came back better than ever in 1995.
When Father’s Day rolled around again, Michael made a big statement when he won his fourth
NBA championship.
Happy Father’s Day, Mr. Jordan.
This has to be the most moving footage of a grown man sobbing that I’ve ever seen.
2.
Olympic Dad Derek Redmond, a British sprinter at the 1992
Olympic games in Barcelona, had trained just as hard, if not harder than the rest of them.
It had been years of effort, long hours, and sacrifice.
He was a crowd favorite and was likely to win gold in the 400-meter sprint.
However, Redmond injured himself during a semifinals heat.
Determined to finish, he winced his way through and suddenly, his father joined him on the
track, helping him make his way to the end of the race.
1.
A Tragic End To A Championship Possibly one of the hardest moments in soccer
history, on the night of an important Sudamerica cup finals only one of the teams was present.
The match was never played, and the bleachers sang, drummed, and honored the guest team.
Why?
Well, the Colombian Atletico Nacional team and the Brazilian Chapecoense were set to
have their match in the Colombian city of Medellin in November of 2016.
Before flying, team members had uploaded videos of the players in a great mood, and optimistic.
One of the players had even received a gift from his wife, a positive pregnancy test.
However, upon flying into the mountains of Colombia, just moments away from landing,
the airport delayed them due to high traffic.
The pilot had not refueled the plane enough and didn’t declare an emergency landing
out of fear of losing his license.
Soon after, the plane crashed and almost every player died.
On the night of the match, tens of thousands attended the stadium regardless.
They dressed in white and green, the colors of both teams, they lit candles, they sang,
and cheered to the team that had never made it.
All remaining teams in the cup requested the Chapecoense team be honored with the title,
which they were on December 5th, 2016.