Here we listed interesting facts about sport history
1- Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bilika became the Olympic champion by running barefoot in 2 hours 21 minutes and 23 seconds in 1960 and won the gold medal.
2- American jockey Frank Hayes died of a heart attack at a horse racing tournament in New York. The horse that did not stop throughout the race carried Hayes to the first place, and thus Frank Hayes went down in history as the dead jockey who won the horse race.
3- Famous Finnish football player Pentti made history by scoring 5 own goals in the same match. His teammates gave a compass to the famous player at the end of the match.
4- English football player Gary Lineker has written his name in history as a gentleman football player, not seeing a yellow card even once in his 20-year professional football life.
5- In the 2006 World Cup, Switzerland finished the tournament without conceding a goal.
6- Legendary basketball player Michael Jordan claimed that his new colleague, Scott Burrell, was irresponsible in practice, throwing a basketball in Burrell’s face and saying, “If you want to have fun, go to Disneyland.”
7- The Albanian national team, who came to England for the match in 1990, left the shop without paying because they thought the Duty Free shops were free at the airport. Thereupon, the arrested football players are released, saying that they misunderstood Duty Free.
8- Competing in the 2012 Turkey Rally Championship, Sabri Ünver got stuck in the police barrier in the 6th leg of the championship. The rally driver, who was stopped by the police, was checked for his license.
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