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罗杰·班尼斯特：第1位在4分钟内跑完1英里(1.609公里)的运动员
In 1954 it seemed unlikely--maybe even impossible--that anyone could run a
mile in less than four minutes. Several runners had come close--Sweden's Gunder
Haess had run the mile in four minutes and 1.4 seconds nine years
previously--but no one could break through the four-minute barrier. People began
to believe that it couldn't be done. Until Britain's Roger Bannister, that is.
Competing at Oxford's Iffley Road track on May 6, 1954, the 25-year-old medical
student wowed some 3,000 spectators when he crossed the finish line in three
minutes and 59.4 seconds. Once the psychological barrier had been broken, mile
times kept falling. Bannister's record stood a scant six weeks before John Landy
of Australia ran the mile in three minutes and 58 seconds. The current world
record is three minutes and 43.1 seconds.
兰斯·阿姆斯特朗：7次环法自行车赛总冠军
Prior to being diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996, Lance Armstrong
was a successful professional bicyclist. After his recovery, he became a legend.
Armstrong has won the Tour de France, which many consider to be professional
sports' most grueling event--a 21-stage race covering more than 3,500 kilometers
(2,175 miles) in the heat of the French summer--a record seven consecutive
times. Prior to Armstrong, no one had won the race more than five times.
杰西·欧文斯：70分钟破3项平1项世界纪录
In the spring of 1935, heading into Big Ten Conference Championships, Jesse
Owens, a 21-year-old track star from Ohio State University, was suffering from a
back injury he had sustained falling down a flight of stairs. He received
treatment right up to race time. Then lightening struck. In less than 70
minutes, Owens broke three world records (in the long jump, the 220-yard dash
and the 200-yard low hurdles) and tied a fourth (in the 100-yard dash). The
following year, Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in
Berlin.
纳迪亚·科马内奇：7个难以置信的满分
No one--man or woman--had ever earned a perfect score for an Olympic
gymnastics routine before Nadia Comaneci mounted the uneven bars on July 18,
1976. But the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast's flawless routine did the
inconceivable, earning a 10.0--a feat that was so unexpected it wouldn't fit on
the scoreboard and had to be displayed as a 1.0. But Comaneci didn't stop there.
The 4-foot-11, 86-pound pixie went on to score not one, not two, but seven
perfect 10s during the games, winning gold medals in the uneven bars, balance
beam and individual all-around. The feat remains one of the Olympic's greatest
achievements--and after the games were over, the World Gymnastics Federation was
forced to redesign their scoreboards.
乔·迪玛奇奥：连续56场击出安打
On May 15, 1941, the New York Yankee's Joe DiMaggio went one-for-four with
an RBI against the Chicago White Sox in a routine, early season game (the
Yankees lost 13 to 1). The very next day, "Joltin'" Joe had another base hit.
And another in the next game. And in the next. In all, DiMaggio had a base hit
in 56 consecutive games--a record that stands unbroken to this day.
穆罕默德·阿里：3次获得重量级拳王头衔
On February 25, 1964, a young boxer named Cassius Clay faced off against
Sonny Liston, the heavyweight champion of the world. The odds were seven-to-one
against the mouthy upstart, known as "The Louisville Lip"--a boxer so brash he
promised during the weigh-in to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." But
Clay proved true to his word, pummeling Liston so badly that the champ quit
before the start of the seventh round. Soon after, Clay joined the Nation of
Islam, changed his name to Muhammad Ali and refused to serve in the Vietnam
War--a move that got him stripped of the championship belt. But in 1974, Ali
came back, pulling the "rope-a-dope" on George Foreman in "The Rumble in the
Jungle" and regaining the belt. In February 1978, Olympic champion Leon Spinks
defeated the aging star in a 15-round decision. But only a few months later, Ali
won a rematch and regained the title. The victory made him the first man in
heavyweight history to win three heavyweight titles.
马克·施皮茨：7枚游泳金牌
Going into the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz was a cocky
22-year-old swimmer who had failed to win a single individual gold in the 1968
games in Mexico City (although he did get two team golds). Nonetheless, Spitz
bragged he would win six gold medals in Germany. He didn't. He won seven--the
most anyone has ever won in a single Olympiad--and broke seven world records in
the process. Spitz's career total of 11 medals ties him with fellow swimmer Matt
Biondi for the most decorated U.S. Olympic athlete.
格特鲁德·埃德尔：最短时间内横渡英吉利海峡
The choppy waters that separate France from England are icy-cold,
crisscrossed with powerful currents and subject to sudden squalls. By 1926,
hundreds of people had tried to swim the English Channel, but only five had been
successful--all of them men. Then Gertrude Ederle, a native New Yorker, donned
her swimming cap, slathered herself with petroleum jelly and lard and jumped in
the water off the coast of France. It took her 14 hours and 31 minutes to cover
the 21 miles to Kingsdown on the English coast, shattering the men's record by
nearly two hours. Ederle's record remained untouched for nearly 25 years.
埃德蒙·希拉里和丹增·诺尔盖：成功攀登珠穆朗玛峰
The peak of Mt. Everest reaches a height of 29,035 feet above sea
level--the highest point on Earth. Finally, the British were allowed access in
the early 1920s. They mounted a number of full-fledged expeditions, including
one in 1924 that claimed the lives of world-renowned Alpinist George Mallory and
a young Oxford graduate named Andrew "Sandy" Irvine. Further attempts on Everest
were stalled by World War II. But on May 29, 1953, two members of that year's
British Expedition reached the summit: Edmund Hillary, a beekeeper from New
Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a professional mountaineer from the Everest
foothills.
贝贝·鲁思：一个赛季60次本垒打
You don't get a nickname like "The Sultan of Swat" without being able to
knock the ball out of the park. George Herman "Babe" Ruth was the first player
to hit 30 home runs in a season. And the first to hit 40. And the first to hit
50. His 1927 record of 60 home runs in just 155 games represented 14% of all of
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