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What is the greatest sporting upset of all time?

• Buster Douglas knocking out 42-1 favourite Mike Tyson in 1991

• 500-1 Japan beating three time world champions South Africa in the 2015 Rugby World Cup

• 5000-1 Leicester City winning the 2015/16 Premier League

• 2000-1 favourite Aleksandr Karelin losing the 2000 Olympic Wrestling Final to Rulon Gardner

Mike Tyson's defeat by Buster Douglas ___ one of the biggest sporting upsets in history.

The European Championships in football ____ _____ some of the biggest upset wins in sports history.

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When Japan beat South Africa in ___ 2015 World Cup, they were 500-1 underdogs.

The 2008 Super Bowl saw the upstart New York Giants pull off a massive upset when they ______ the undefeated New England Patriots’ perfect season run of 18 victories and 0 losses.

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The odds of Leicester winning the Premier League in 2015/16 were __ unbelievable 5000-1!

In the opening game of the 2009 T20 Cricket World Cup, the Netherlands ____ England in one of the greatest shocks in cricket history.

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On February 22, 1980, the United States Olympic hockey team pulled off one of ___ greatest upsets in sports history by defeating the super-powered Soviet Union 4-3

Denmark won the 1992 European Championship even though they were knocked out in qualifying. They ___ ___ invited because a civil war in Yugoslavia meant that country could not send a team.

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_ relatively unknown 17-year-old German called Boris Becker defeated Kevin Curran in the 1985 Wimbledon final to become the youngest men’s singles champion ever.