The New England Patriots have won the Super Bowl in Atlanta for the sixth time, beating the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 in the lowest-scoring game of the Super Bowl's 53-year history. The Patriots have equaled Pittsburgh's six trophies.
42-year old New England quarterback Tom Brady won the Super Bowl for the sixth time and Bill Belichick has became the most successful coach in the history of American football.
Both teams brought up excellent defense lines , making it extremely difficult to score. The Patriots entered halftime with a mere 3-0 lead through a field goal. In the third quarter the Rams scored their first points of the game, also via field goal.
The decisive moments came in the 4th quarter when Brady threw a couple of superb passes to Rob Gronkowski to set up the only touchdown of the game with only 7 minutes left on the clock.
Julian Edelmann (New England) was named the most valuable player after making 10 catches for a total of 141 yards.
Michael Phelps, the most successful swimmer of all times, ended his career after his last appearance at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He won a total of 28 Olympic medals, 23 of them in gold. In the 2008 Beijing games he broke Mark Spitz's legendary record, winning 8 gold medals at a single Olympics.
In the 2016 Olympic Games, Phelps won 5 gold medals and one in silver. His last competition was the butterfly leg in the 4X100m men's relay, After the event Michael Phelps, at the age of 31, declared the end of his so successful career. The American swimmer came back from retirement after the 2012 Olympics in London. In Rio, he was chosen to lead America's Olympic team into the stadium and carry the flag.
Born in Baltimore, Michael was the youngest of three children. He began swimming at the age of 7. By the time he reached 10 he had already held a national record for swimmers of his age in the 100 meter butterfly event. In 2000 he became the youngest male to join the US Olympic swimming team in 68 years. At his first games in Sydney, Phelps finished fifth in the 200m butterfly event. In the following years Phelps dominated the swimming world. He competed in 6 single events, including butterfly, freestyle and backstroke as well as the medley races. Phelps not only became the world's best swimmer, but also inspired other Americans . At the Rio games, the United States was the world's most successful swimming nation.
Although rival Ryan Lochte and other swimmers predict that Phelps might be back for the 2020 games in Tokyo, the swimming superstar stated that this was his last goodbye. Now, Michael Phelps wants to spend more time working with his foundation, which he created after the Beijing Olympics to make swimming more popular among young people. He also wants more time with his family.
Jean-Marc Bosman is not remembered for his playing skills or for the success he achieved as a footballer. He is remembered for turning the world of football upside down. 20 years ago Bosman won a European Court of Justice decision that allowed professional footballers to change teams without clubs paying a transfer fee. It freed players from the slavery of their clubs.
In 1990 Jean-Marc Bosman wanted to leave his Belgian club Liege because they offered him less money for a new contract. Dunkerque, just across the border to France wanted him but couldn't pay the transfer sum that Liege demanded. After being suspended by the Belgian football league, Bosman went to court to fight for his right to work anywhere he wanted in the EU. In the five years that passed until the decision was made, Bosman spent more time in court than on the football pitch.
The Bosman ruling affected smaller teams most. Teams that had young talented players of their own, like Ajax Amsterdam, saw them leaving for top clubs in other European leagues. After the court ruling professional footballers could play anywhere they wanted within Europe. A team could employ as many foreign players as they wanted to.
The ruling did not help Jean-Marc Bosman, the footballer who wanted to transfer to the French league. Today , 20 years later, Bosman is unemployed and lives below the poverty line . But footballers around the world have the freedom to play where they want thanks to Jean-Marc Bosman.
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