Aravinda de Silva produced one of the greatest all-round performances in a final, taking 3 wickets and scoring an unbeaten 107 to guide Sri Lanka to victory.

Ireland produced a massive upset in 2011 by chasing down England's 328, thanks largely to Kevin O'Brien's fastest World Cup century at the time.

Kenya made a historic run in the 2003 World Cup held in South Africa, becoming the first (and only) non-Test playing nation to reach the semi-finals.

Glenn Maxwell scored the fastest World Cup century in 2023, reaching the milestone in just 40 balls against the Netherlands.

Uruguay's José Batista was sent off just 56 seconds into a match against Scotland in 1986.

Turkish striker Hakan Şükür scored the fastest goal in World Cup history, netting just 11 seconds into the third-place match against South Korea in 2002.

Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the 100m final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics but was disqualified and stripped of his medal days later after testing positive for stanozolol.

Tug of War was a contested event at the Summer Olympics from 1900 to 1920 before being removed from the program.

The United States led a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Roughly 65 nations eventually joined the boycott.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were postponed for one year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and were eventually held in the summer of 2021.