Once in a Lifetime: 25 Records That Will Absolutely Never Be Broken
Part of the fun of major records is seeing them get beaten. This is how we determine who our best athletes and performers really are.
Published 11 months ago in Ftw
Part of the fun of major records is seeing them get beaten. This is how we determine who our best athletes and performers really are.
Some records, though, are never ever going to be broken. Which ones are we talking about? Thanks to Reddit, you're about to find out.
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The longest professional tennis match of all time: John Isner vs Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon 2010. It lasted 11 hours 5 minutes, spanning 3 days of play, with a final score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68
It was already nearly twice as long as the previous record holder. The reason it will likely never be broken is that every professional tournament except for one (Roland-Garros) now has tiebreaker rules that limit the number of games that can be played in final sets. Although it’s hypothetically possible at RG, clay court tennis is not at all conducive to the serve-and-volley style of play that led to the insanely long 5th set of Isner-Mahut.-u/MSims29926
The current record for the Cannonball Run, a drive from NY to LA, is about 25.5 hours. It was set in May of 2020, and the drivers were able to make use of the lack of traffic due to the pandemic to break the record. Barring another similar world-changing event, traffic conditions will probably never be what they were when that record was set.-u/SexyNeanderthal
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When I was a kid, we had a Guinness book of records lying around that we liked to browse in while bored. There was this one guy in it who held a record for most bikes eaten. No, you did read that right. He ground up a bike and slowly consumed it over I don't know how long a time.
The record was accompanied by a note that no further records of bike eating would be accepted, as it was deemed too dangerous.-u/Picajosan9
Cy Young pitched 749 complete games in his career.
The current active pitcher with the most complete games in his career is Adam Wainwright, who has pitched for 17 years and has 27 complete games total. Pitchers just don’t pitch the whole game anymore, and Young’s record will never come close to being touched.-u/VictorBlimpmuscle18
Hans Heyer’s DNQ, DNF, and DSQ in one F1 race. (Did not qualify, did not finish and disqualified)
He did not qualify because he was too slow, started anyway by sneaking his car in. Only when his gearbox failed after 10 laps was it realised that Heyer should not have been competing, whereupon he was disqualified.-u/Comrade_476
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