If Wayne Gretzky never scored a single goal, he would still be the career leading point scorer in NHL history!
Wayne Gretzky, nicknamed “The Great One”, is almost unanimously accepted as the greatest hockey player to every play the game, but have you ever wondered just how good Gretzky was? Gretzky first joined the NHL in 1979 and played for the Edmonton Oilers. Throughout his twenty-year career, Gretzky would play for four different teams and shatter nearly every record set before.
He remains the leading point-scorer in NHL history with 894 goals throughout his career. He finished with a total of 2,857 points, which is over 1000 more than Mark Messier who holds second place.
Amazingly, even if all of the nearly 900 goals he scored throughout his career were removed from his statistics, he would still hold first place for most points. He still holds the record of having more assists than any other player has points, and remains the only hockey player to total over 200 points in a single season!
A super fan of the Kansas City Chiefs football team decide to give his team a hard time for their abysmal 2012 season, even past his grave. The Kansas City Star newspaper ran his obituary last Sunday. It read:
In 1936, the Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany. In the pole vault, a US vaulter named Earlier Meadows won the gold medal. The two who came in second and third were Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe, both of Japan. They hadn’t come explicitly in those places though. They had tied exactly. Japanese places, in the event of a tie, were often decided by a coin toss, thus Nishida was placed second and Oe third.
Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French educator and historian, and is credited as the founder of the International Olympic Committee and the modern Olympic Games. It was in 1889 when Coubertin started reviving the Olympic Games as an international competition. He spent five years organizing an international meeting of athletes and sports enthusiasts to try and make the new Olympics a reality.
Christophe Bassons was a professional road racing cyclist from Mazamet, France. His career ended when he spoke out against doping in the Tour de France, though. He began cycle-racing in mountain biking in 1991. Previously he had been a civil engineer. He started racing on the road in 1992 and won the Tour du Tarn et Garonne in 1995. He turned professional in 1996 for Force Sud and then switched to Festina when Force Sud failed. He was invited to the Tour de France and to write for a column for the 1999 Tour de France.
