Since the invention of TV, our cameras have been enthusiastically pointed towards big
sporting events.
The few who hate sports can’t understand why, but we know: it’s because you never
know what you’re going to see next.
If you have any friends who hate sports, show them this video: here’s a collection of
some of the most incredible moments in sport, those moments that nobody could replicate
even if they tried.
Ready to see them?
Let’s get it on!
Every so often, you witness a moment of sheer dedication that makes you wonder if you’ve
ever really put a decent amount of work into anything in your life.
This guy is so determined to get a goal, he won’t let anything stand in his way - literally.
He just runs straight into the goal keeper and does an insane front flip over the top
of him to get where he needs to be to have a clear shot.
Then he takes the time to get the goal and even celebrate before worrying about the fact
that he used his groin to vault over the goalkeeper.
He should definitely become a motivational speaker.
When you’ve achieved something amazing, it’s almost traditional to celebrate with
a high-five.
It’s not often that you see a high-five becoming the thing you’re celebrating though.
These guys took the humble high-five to a new level at the Audi Nines.
It’s worth reminding you while you’re watching this that skiing is a dangerous sport
and all kinds of things can go wrong on a jump like this, but they obviously thought
this would be cool enough to give it a go, and they were right.
It’s not every day you get the chance to double high-five your friend while flying
upside down through the air.
Honestly, I don’t know how they did it, the accuracy is incredible - you’re probably
never going to see anything like that ever again.
Some of the most entertaining moments in pop culture come from a serious wardrobe malfunction.
Sure, that usually means some poor singer’s top has accidentally drifted away in the wind
or something, but that doesn’t mean wardrobe malfunctions can’t lead to funny moments
in sport too.
See those footballers that seem to be having a relaxing sit-down in the middle of their
match?
Well, it’s not by choice.
They have, as impossible as this sounds, accidentally got their shoes stuck together.
How?
I don’t know, apparently their shoelaces spontaneously knotted together.
What matters is that it happened at all, and that it was filmed for the world to see that
something so unlikely and so funny can actually happen.
It’s one thing when things go a bit wrong when you’re playing something like basketball
- you’ll probably lose a point, which isn’t ideal, but it’s fine.
When something goes a little bit wrong when you’re racing a motorbike, it’s a very
different story.
It isn’t just a point you’re losing, it could be your face instead - or worse.
This 200 mile per hour wobble could have easily led to a life threatening crash, but something
impossible happened instead: the rider just hopped off his bike and went for a ride on
his competitor’s wheelie bar, almost like he’d done it on purpose.
That’s not exactly what you expect to see when one of the bikes is on fire - and there’s
a reason for that: because it has never happened before and it will never happen again.
Now here’s a sport you probably never even thought about watching before: parachuting.
Well you won’t be alone in that, I’m willing to bet most people have never watched parachuting.
So if you won’t go to the sport, the sport will come to you… by invading another sport
that people actually do watch.
That’s right, you have to watch him if he just lands in the middle of a football match
you were in the middle of enjoying.
It was probably an accident, but maybe not.
Either way, you probably won’t ever see a moment like that again.
Most professionals are only really, really good at one sport - and that’s fair, with
all the training and dedication that goes into it.
But that does mean we don’t often get to see what happens when you combine two sports.
So what happens when you put a race car driver and the world’s best bowler together?
The world’s fastest strike, that’s what!
That’s right, the guy’s so good he can bowl a perfect strike from inside a car travelling
at 140 miles per hour.
Any normal person would be doing nothing but screaming, but even at that speed with the
car in his way, he can still put our mediocre bowling skills to shame.
There’s a rare breed of sportsmen that come along maybe once in a generation: the people
that are so good at their chosen game that they become synonymous with the sport.
LeBron James is one of those people - even people who know nothing about basketball know
that he’s a great basketball player.
But what kind of skill does he have that outshines all the rest?
Well, this moment is a pretty good example.
Most of us if we were in this situation, would only be able to see all the people standing
in our way.
He only sees the space in between them, and somehow manages to actually get the ball between
their legs, even though he’s doing it behind his back.
And of course he sees it through to the basket.
How?
No idea.
He’s just brilliant.
Golf is such a difficult sport that the phrase hole in one has worked its way into everyday
usage.
When you’re playing such a difficult sport to a professional level, you don’t expect
a lot of excitement from 158 yards away from the hole - there’s work to be done still.
Kevin Chappell doesn’t care about how many odds are against him though - his goal is
to get the ball in the hole and be done with it.
But how can you do that from so far away?
You just whack that ball and wait for it to go in the right place.
Or at least that’s what it looked like he did, we simply can’t explain that kind of
aim with logic.
For all the examples of professional sportsmen doing amazing things with fine-tuned precision,
there’s another example of someone getting it horribly wrong.
But when something does go wrong, that can sometimes be a great opportunity for everyday
people like us to do something awesome.
This mistake could’ve led to something horrific - just imagine that heavy bat flying toward
an innocent child!
It’s the stuff of nightmares.
Luckily, this guy was in the audience.
He was brave enough to stand up and try and catch the bat, saving potentially countless
lives in the process.
And there was a girl on hand to give him a kiss, just like in all the best superhero
movies.
What a touching scene - definitely a one of a kind moment in sporting history.
In tennis, you’re all on your own, unless you’re playing doubles, but you know what
I mean.
Anyway, when you only have yourself to rely on, you have to pull out all the stops or
you’re going home.
Gael Monfils was up against it during this rally and he knew it - when your opponent
starts hitting the ball down the line like that, you need to start getting worried, that’s
not an easy shot to return.
But he didn’t give up.
Instead, he decided to prove something with more style than most fashion designers could
ever wish for.
He doesn’t even pause to look, just turns it into an amazing point - in more ways than
one.
Every now and again, someone will have a moment so great that you don’t even need to know
about the sport to be able to tell they’ve done something incredible - you can just tell
by the looks on the faces of everyone there.
This guy is Mitchie Brusco and he’s about to blow everyone’s mind.
How?
Well by doing something no professional skateboarder had ever managed to do before.
Not that you’d know that by looking at him - he seems cool as a cucumber, just casually
pulling off an impossible 1260 degree stunt with his skateboard.
That’s 3.5 rotations, for anyone who’s eagerly trying to count.
You can see how cool it is by how everyone around him is absolutely losing their minds
over it - an essential part of all great moments in sport.
The challenge in professional sports is that, no matter how good you are, there’s always
another great player trying to get in your way.
It must be so annoying - you just have to keep upping your game if you have any chance
of winning, trying more and more difficult moves or doing impossible things to come out
on top.
So when your opponent catches the ball in between you and the home plate, you’re not
going to let that get in the way of you scoring, are you?
Well Chris Coghlan didn’t anyway.
He just jumped over his unusual obstacle like it was no big deal.
Now that’s how you create a great sporting moment.
Sometimes, the odds are so stacked against you that there’s simply no hope.
You might as well just give up and go home - it would take a miracle to save you now.
That’s exactly how this team felt when their opponent kicked this ball - it was a surefire
goal… until the miracle I mentioned took to the field.
Now watch the world’s most amazing defender save this goal.
So yeah, he was a dog and technically wasn’t part of the team, but it’s not every day
you get to watch such excellent defending in action, it’s got to count for something.
Alright, so you’re not satisfied that a dog running across a field counts as an amazing
moment in sporting history, despite its excellent timing - fair enough, I guess sport is all
about incredible physical achievements by humans.
Don’t worry, I can more than make up for that.
How, you ask?
With Zlatan Ibrahimovic of course.
Watch this.
30 yards from the goal and with the ball up in the air, you wouldn’t think it could
be possible to score a goal - and for most people it wouldn’t be.
But he’s not most people, and this is no ordinary goal.
I should also mention that he’d already scored 3 goals before this impossible bicycle
kick too, so this was almost all for show.
Now that’s how you play the game.
You can never predict when something’s going to go wrong at a pro sporting event - these
are high-stakes games and that kind of tension makes things volatile.
If this video is anything to go by, you obviously don’t even need to be playing the game to
be on high-alert.
Anything can happen.
This interview was going perfectly well until a rogue baseball nearly killed the interviewer.
She’s so lucky she had Evan Longoria at the mic, because he obviously has those amazing
reflexes that professional sportsmen get when they’ve been playing for a long time.
Just look at her face - you can see her life flashing before her eyes.
Gymnastics is one of those unfair sports where it’s almost impossible to be perfect.
Normally, a win is what you aim for, but there’s an elusive perfect 10 that everyone aims for
in gymnastics and almost nobody achieves.
I’m going to warn you now: don’t even try and look for a mistake in this amazing
floor exercise by Katelyn Ohashi, because there isn’t one.
This is what a perfect 10 looks like.
In this sport, that means you literally didn’t put a foot wrong.
And just look at her teammates - they’re all up and dancing with her, which usually
happens as a form of encouragement, but you can see on their faces that they’re cheering
because they can’t believe what they’re seeing.