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Sports Greatest Underdog Stories - Athletes Immortalised After They Defied The Odds

In ancient Chinese philosophy, there is the duelling concept of yin and yang, which suggests that for every great force, there is always a complementary power that rises alongside it. In sport, this translates, as for every Duke Blue Devil or Manchester City, there is always an underdog. The underdog is one of the many defining factors that make sport great, and over the centuries, there have been so many underdog stories that even some truly astounding feats slip the minds of today's sporting fanatics. What follows is not a ranking of sports greatest underdog stories but more of a celebration of what makes an underdog truly spectacular.  Leicester City FC Win The Premier League  As the most present underdog on the list, the memory of Leicesters triumph in 2015/2016 is probably still fresh in the minds of every hurting Arsenal fan around the world. At 5000/1, the Foxes were expected to finish the season battling against relegation but instead chose to sit atop of some of the P...