The Basketball Player So Good He Changed The Entire Game (Athletes That Changed Their Sport)
14,280Basketball, as we know it today, is dominated the tall but this wasn't always the case. In fact, tall people used to be so absent from the sport that when one did appear on the scene, they had the change the entire game.
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http://mentalfloss.com/article/73724/man-who-broke-world-record-pole-vaulting-35-different-times
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