Tiger Woods finally won a major again, Novak Djokovic outlasted Roger Federer in an epic Wimbledon final, Megan Rapinoe shone on and off the pitch at football's women's World Cup, and Siya Kolisi became the first black player to captain South Africa to a major rugby title, at the World Cup, in some of the big 2019 sporting moments.
The alpine ski world championships in Are, Sweden was the moment for two of the greatest names of the sport to end their careers - and both bowed out with medals which were no longer entirely expected. US skier Lindsey Vonn captured bronze in the women's downhill, after crashing out days earlier in the super-g. At 34, she became the oldest woman to win a medal at a world championship. She bowed out with 82 World Cup wins, four short of Ingemar Stenmark's record 86.
Rapinoe said she wants to be remembered as"someone who was willing to stand up for what was right."As heavyweights go Mexico's Andy Ruiz seemed in a league of his own, far from the well-honed physical specimen he was facing in champion Anthony Joshua. But that counted for nothing at New York's Madison Square Garden when Ruiz floored the British champion four times, winning by technical knock-out in the seventh round in one of boxing's biggest upsets.
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