Jumping, Running, Breaking, Lifting, Swimming... New Records!

Every sports event presents a great opportunity for all participating sportspersons to break one record or the other. Either break existing records or create unknown or new ones.

Recently Ricky Ponting hit back to back 100s in his 100th test match. No test player had done it till that point. Uniqueness of the record increased manifold because it was created in the 100th test. So, there you go... 2 100s in the 100th test. Now, lets see when this happens again. So many players - so few get to their 100th test - so much fewer actually manage to carry their bat as long as to hit a 100 - and so much much fewer players do it twice. This is one record that is going to stay for a long long time to come. Or would it be that I said it too soon? :-) Time alone will tell.

Coming to Tennis, Roger Federer recently played a match in which trounced Gaudio with "bagels". For the unintroduced, bagels are baked preparations that look like the geometrical shape "torus". Meaning to say, he won in sets with scores looking like 6-0. Now, how many players are so much of a genius to really do that? Not many. Few and far in between. Again, there is also a question of luck. Gaudio probably had a bad hair day.

NYNewsDay.com has a story today that speaks about how records are broken and new ones established - the history and whys behind it all. Quite a read, it is. Check it out here.