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In your opinion, what do you think is the most significant sports achievement by a white person was this past year?
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Top White sports achievement '17-'18
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Roger Federer winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon! Easy choice for me.
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Drew Brees set the NFL record for completion percentage with 72%. With accuracy being all-important at the QB position this is an important record.
Here's a site with a number of records set in 2017, many of them by white athletes. Several NFL and team records set during 2017 season - Sporting News
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If you bundle the trio WR gang of Edelman, Amendola and Hogan together I would put them right up there with Federer.
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Good mentions I'd also like to like to throw in UFC Heavyweight Stipe Miocic name into consideration. If he wins against The French African at UFC 220 he will have had 3 straight Heavyweight Title defenses, a feat no other Heavyweight fighter in UFC has managed to do!
http://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/...fc-title-against-francis-ngannou/95-507253951
http://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/...fc-title-against-francis-ngannou/95-507253951
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Good point a lot of us didn't think that'd ever happen again!
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Pats definitely get the nod as best white team. We all know their defense is dark but they consistently put out exciting offenses for us to cheer for year after year! They look to be destined for AFC Championship showdown with Steelers once again!
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I will nominate white sprinter Ramil Guliyev winning the gold medal at the 2017 World Championships of Track & Field in the 200 meters! No white sprinter had won a gold medal at this level since Kostas Kenteris won the same medal at the olympics way back in 2000.
Good one. Didn't know about him.
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Wow! Ya'll have named quite a few so far. Several are hard to beat, especially CM being drafted 8th overall as a white RB. However, I will throw out Mike Trout. It's really all I need to say. The most complete white MLB player since Mickey Mantle! He's already shattering and setting records, but I'll just give you one from last season.
Trout became the youngest MLB player, (25), in history to hit 200 HR's and steal 150 bases. He did this despite missing 50 games last season. Probably not the most significant, but is right up there.
BTW, he's doing all this without steroids and he plays in a lousy hitters ball park. A tremendous talent! Once in a lifetime.
Trout became the youngest MLB player, (25), in history to hit 200 HR's and steal 150 bases. He did this despite missing 50 games last season. Probably not the most significant, but is right up there.
BTW, he's doing all this without steroids and he plays in a lousy hitters ball park. A tremendous talent! Once in a lifetime.
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Colin O'Brady: First man to cross Antarctica alone - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../2018/.../this-man-just-crossed-antarctica-alone-recor...
2 days ago - This man just crossed Antarctica alone — and in record time. Colin O'Brady calling his wife after reaching his goal of crossing Antarctica on the Ross Ice Shelf. ... badly damaged that doctors warned he would never walk normally again. .... washingtonpost.com; © 1996-2018 The Washington Post; Help and ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../2018/.../this-man-just-crossed-antarctica-alone-recor...
2 days ago - This man just crossed Antarctica alone — and in record time. Colin O'Brady calling his wife after reaching his goal of crossing Antarctica on the Ross Ice Shelf. ... badly damaged that doctors warned he would never walk normally again. .... washingtonpost.com; © 1996-2018 The Washington Post; Help and ...
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Kenteris won gold in Edmonton in 2001, Here it is.........
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Another feat of fortitude, endurance & courage by the White man.
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I want to give Mikaela Shiffrin a mention. She broke the women's slalom wins record when she won her 36th slalom race this year. She won 15 races this year and 27 out of 33 races altogether. The men's record is 40 wins, so barring injury, she should break it in 2019. Also, she is only 23 years old.
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Andrzej Bargiel completes first ski descent from the summit of K2 ...
www.alpinist.com/doc/web18c/newswire-k2-ski-descent
Jul 23, 2018 - On Sunday, July 22, Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel became the first person in history to climb and ski the behemoth K2 (8611m), ...
www.alpinist.com/doc/web18c/newswire-k2-ski-descent
Jul 23, 2018 - On Sunday, July 22, Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel became the first person in history to climb and ski the behemoth K2 (8611m), ...
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Disabled military vet makes history rowing across Atlantic
Wrong year but I like this. Only White men can do these type of things.