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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 (a)   one of the biggest sporting upsets in history.

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

• produced

• produce

• have produced

• was produce

When Japan beat South Africa in (a)   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.

• ruined

• ruining

• had ruined

• were ruining

The odds of Leicester winning the Premier League in 2015/16 were (a)   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.

• beat

• had beaten

• won

• were winning

On February 22, 1980, the United States Olympic hockey team pulled off one of (a)   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.

• are

• was

• have been

• had been

_ 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.

(a)