Best sporting moment you have witnessed in person: share yours

[Glenn82]

Not a news thread, just a good one. I have been thinking about this because the World Cup starting has me in a nostalgic mood about stadiums and live sport. Something specific about seeing sport in person that television genuinely cannot replicate, even with the best screens and audio setups.

I have a couple of candidates for my own answer. One is a football match I attended about ten years ago where the atmosphere in the second half was unlike anything I had experienced before or since. Another is a smaller event, a local athletics meet, where someone I had never heard of broke a record nobody expected to fall and about 200 people in the stands went completely silent before erupting. The scale was tiny but the emotional impact was not.

Would love to hear people's genuine answers, big or small event.

[Anvil79]

Rugby international about 12 years ago. Late comeback, last minute score, the entire stand shaking. I have replayed it in my head hundreds of times and it is still just as good.