Argentina versus England '98. The joy in having won then was just undescribable. It was suuuch a tense match. (I was abroad when '86 happened.)
Also when Argentina won the gold in basketball.
It really, really sucks to lose in the world cup though. I was depressed for a week after the last WC. Not as much as my older brother though, he locked himself in the car with a bottle of liquor and cried himself to sleep listening to opera. True story.
Ascari in Ligurian Sea during Monaco GP, Peterson and von Trips dying in Monza, Lauda fire in Nurburgring
1995 Adelaide F1 GP
Jamaica Bobsleigh team Calgary
Jahangir Khan unbeaten in 5 years
No Olympic medal for Paula Radcliffe
Ascari in Ligurian Sea during Monaco GP, Peterson and von Trips dying in Monza, Lauda fire in Nurburgring
1995 Adelaide F1 GP
Jamaica Bobsleigh team Calgary Jahangir Khan unbeaten in 5 years
No Olympic medal for Paula Radcliffe
2010 Tour of Flanders, Cancellara vs Boonen
2010 Giro d'Italia, especially the Montalcino stage
1992 water polo men's olympic final Italy def. Spain after 3 overtimes (golden goal introduced after that)
2005 CL final
Ah, too many to choose from.
From the top of my head, sorry for being chauvinistic:
Schalken defeating Kuerten and Gonzalez in 5 setters at 2002 US Open.
Federer winning Roland Garros
Man Utd beating Bayern Munchen in Champions league final 1999
Dennis Bergkamps goal against Argentina WC 1998
Bulls going 72-10
Rik Smits distant buzzer beater against the Knicks in 1995
Any world title by Erben Wennemars
Sven Kramers world record 5000 m speed skating
Ajax winning the 1994 Champions League (esp 5-2 win against Bayern Munchen. Football 15 years ahead of its time).
was just a little goofy 10 year old at the time but remember these two Swedish moments like they were yesterday. Impossible to get more drama.
1994 fotball world cup, QF Sweden vs Romania. What a match. Swedens sneaky free-kick combo, Romanias late equalizer, Romania takes the lead in extra time, Sweden gets a guy sent off, comes back and manage to equalize again. It was very hot that day and both teams had given it all. Epic penalty shoot out followed. Tied after 5 penalties each. Then Sweden finally wins with an amazing save
1994 Winter Olympics, Hockey Gold Medal game, Sweden vs Canada. Tight and close match that ended 2-2. Penalty shoot-out. Tied after 5 penalties each. A young Peter Forsberg goes out on the ice. Rest is history.
was just a little goofy 10 year old at the time but remember these two Swedish moments like they were yesterday. Impossible to get more drama.
1994 fotball world cup, QF Sweden vs Romania. What a match. Swedens sneaky free-kick combo, Romanias late equalizer, Romania takes the lead in extra time, Sweden gets a guy sent off, comes back and manage to equalize again. It was very hot that day and both teams had given it all. Epic penalty shoot out followed. Tied after 5 penalties each. Then Sweden finally wins with an amazing save
USA run through the 2004 ice hockey WC to bronze medal (2 penalty shootouts won)
Navarro-Dent 2009 USO R64 one of the few true S&V matches (from the start till the very end) in the present times...
Good one. I remember watching it from beginning to end and thinking it was a unique moment in current tennis, a sort of last breath of the classic S&V game. They were even coming in after 2nd serve!
That was on of the factors, but there is really no excuse for the collapse that team had after going 5-1 up and having Sweden completely out of sorts. Hard to understand and hard to accept.
Sure. OTOH Finland has had always big problems with Sweden (maybe mental aspect, the same like Slovakia against Czech republic). I was actually surprised then when they were leading 5-1 against them.
hard to narrow it down but i think i'm gonna go with kiefer/schüttler losing the olympics final in 04. rollercoaster match, tons of ups and downs, last-minute heartbreak. just when you thought they got it done the chileans stepped it up, again and again. with sports normally i feel more anger than sadness whenever my team/player loses, that was one of the rare moments where i was actually sad. both looked absolutely devastated.
also federer winning the french open, that one swimming relay where lezak beat the living crap out of the frenchman and germany winning the handball world cup 07 (mainly because i watched two games live). i don't get carried away by football that much, probably because it's on 24/7, kinda tiresome.
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