It is weird to me is that there is no time limit on sports events. I found an article on all the longest occurring sports events. There's a tennis match that took 11 hours covering 3 days. A baseball game in 1981 started at 7 pm and continued until 4 am and it wasn't finished. That game was stopped and started back up in two months and had 32 innings.
In the Olympics, the notable record is for the longest wrestling match in the history of the games. It took more than 11 hours. Alfred Asikainen vs. Martin Klein (1912) is considered one of the most epic of sporting battles. It had a political sub-plot: Estonian wrestler Martin Klein (who had decided to represent Russia) met Finland's Alfred Asikainen at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Despite Russia having dominion over Finland, the Finnish were allowed to fly their own flag, much to the chagrin of the Russians. When the two wrestlers met in the semi-finals, neither wanted to let their respective motherlands down. Their 11 hour and 40 minute duel was almost inevitable. In the end it was the Russian who came out on top.
Klein was so exhausted he couldn't fight in the final the next day, automatically handing the gold medal to a Swedish wrestler. Asikainen, on the other hand, returned home a nationalist hero.
Today we have an interpretive lily picture - the lilies have mostly finished blooming in the field. The tomatoes take over our attention now.
