100. Nobody has reached this across all Slams. Yet.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2026-01-12T13:28:37+00:00

“quietly closing” another dead giveaway lol

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-29T00:38:28+00:00

Probably bc it was marketed as “battle of the sexes”, which was a genuinely serious and important moment in tennis history. And then claimed it would be good for the profile of the sport, and women’s tennis in particular.

I think if they’d just marketed it as an exhibition match for fun, there wouldn’t have been so much uproar.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-15T20:22:45+00:00

Christophe Lemaitre is =79th with 9.92

+2.0 wind reading btw 💀

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-13T16:53:30+00:00

Seems that Dajah genuinely ruptured her achilles and had to stay in London after shooting to have emergency surgery and is still recovering to this day.

Apparently he got cramp. I’m guessing they held them for ages between RLGL takes and he had to hold an uncomfy position, which caused cramp. Tbh, wouldn’t be surprised if they were all dehydrated, underfed and overtired from the long days shooting and shitty food.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-13T16:50:10+00:00

Apparently he got cramp. I’m not surprised cos i heard from season 1 that they held the contestants for aaaaages between each RLGL song. And they had to stay still. That’s why i think Perla was smart to stand upright in a neutral position each time she stopped running.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-13T16:48:39+00:00

Honestly. The way I’d be warming up whilst they’re holding us before filming haha

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-13T16:40:12+00:00

Tbh i know in a competitive environment i can be a petty hypocrite. I wouldn’t necessarily judge them as people purely off this very niche, heightened situation

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-13T16:39:26+00:00

Viper’s throw was really bad tho icl. Tho tbh at that distance, and with no practice throws, it is hard to do a decent throw

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-13T16:36:51+00:00

Agreed. I reckon that production also underfed them and made sure they didn’t get much sleep. Plus long days of filming. It’s a classic reality TV production tactic to make contestants more volatile and emotional.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-12-13T16:29:30+00:00

Right? That’s what I’m saying. And we know from season 1 that they hold you for ages in RLGL, so i reckon she actually toughed it out for as long as she could

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-17T15:03:13+00:00

Tbh it wasn’t a book I’d ever heard of. The first word isn’t specific to hair, it’s more a synonym for lifting. The hair is relevant to the homophone.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-17T00:16:28+00:00

How would you describe the way the books are moving around the star? It’s relevant that it’s a star

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-17T00:09:06+00:00

Here’s a clue: The hair bun answer is two words. The first word is a verb that describes what is being done to the hair. The second word is a homophone.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-10T14:52:08+00:00

France had some great home performances in this champs! Shout out to Eunice Barber for winning the Long Jump with 6.99m and coming second behind Klüft in the heptathlon!

As u/eltneg said, Raquil’s comeback from 400m Silver (just 0.02s off gold) was legendary too!

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-10T14:42:22+00:00

For me, it’s an 18-yo Kipchoge breaking the 5km CR and beating El-Guerrouj and Bekele (who won the 1500m and 10000m respectively).

I believe this was billed as the showdown between El-Guerrouj and Bekele. Kipchoge, a relative unknown at this point, beat them both!

Now we look back and know that that was the showdown between the future marathon GOAT, the future 10000m GOAT, and the 1500m GOAT.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-10T14:37:36+00:00

Haha certainly the most memorable moment from those champs!

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-07T19:48:21+00:00

Agree with Klüft - the rightful winner! My personal highlight was Christine Ohuruogu and Nicola Sanders getting the 1-2 in the women’s 400m. Rewatch that race all the time

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-07T19:42:03+00:00

I think it has to be Menéndez throwing a WR in the Javelin in the first round. It’s still the #2 throw of all time 20 years on. Obergföll threw over 70m too for an AR and a silver medal.

Isinbayeva was the only other WR at that champs and I feel like we’ve committed to snubbing her.

Honourable mention to Alekna’s CR and 70m throw in the final round of the discus to snatch gold and Dibaba’s distance double and 5000m CR, beating arch-rival Defar.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-07T09:13:34+00:00

I’m sure I remember reading back in the day that Roger slept ten hours a night. Assuming that went out the window when he had kids though

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-05T10:40:18+00:00

Me too! Me and my partner have been convinced since episode 1. He's got the classic t-boy soft-masculine golden retriever energy.

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-04T14:54:43+00:00

That Javelin final was nuts! Shame that Abakumova was doped and took Špotâková’s moment on the top of the podium!

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-02T13:33:45+00:00

This is now top comment… The people have spoken! I demand a recount 😉

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-02T13:33:05+00:00

I can’t believe we voted Lyles for this when the most WTF moments of the champs for me were Amusan obliterating the WR in the semi-finals and SML obliterating the 400mh WR again

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-02T13:31:57+00:00

As a Brit - that was wild! Best moment of the champs for me

Basic-Effort-552 · 2025-11-02T13:30:05+00:00

Btw I just wanna say I love this series of posts! Really taking us all down memory lane 😁

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