Streak week: A Pakistani squash player won 550 games in a row

Streak week: A Pakistani squash player won 550 games in a row

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day day, day.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
Streak week At fact of the day, we're talking about
unbelievably long streaks. We've had, gambling, We've had other things
that I can't remember because it's Thursday, literally and today.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Three other days for you to remember they're born.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yep, that's all a blue. Today we're doing sports winning streak.
We did Jeopardy streak yesterday. That's right. Sports winning streaks. Okay.
The record holder for winning five hundred and fifty five
professional games in a row holy belongs to a Pakistani

(00:49):
squash player called Junga hair Khan, who won the World
Open six times in between the years nineteen eighty one
and nineteen eighty six. Won five hundred and fifty five
games in a row and it is recognized as the
longest winning streak by any athlete and top level professional
sports by the Guinness World Records.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's a good squash now, who were the opponents?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
So were they?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I mean it was obviously good because he was winning
the World Cham he was in the World like you know,
got some you know, random's in for.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
A game for some like people trying it for the
first time to keep a streak open, or was it
it was we all of those games or five hundred
and whateverational.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Games not recognized ranking games by the World Squash.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Squash always scares me because you hear those story about
stories about people getting the eyeballs sucked down by the
ball my dad had.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
My dad was a squash player and he hit his
front teeth knocked out. You know he's got fake ones.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Did your dad? Does your dad play pickleball?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Squash and tennis? Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
But he looks down on the pickleball players. Do you
think he goes at this on the pile feel like uppers?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Alie?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
You reckon?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, maybe in his old he's over sixteen ninety three.
I think it's a bit slower, a bit easier on
the body than the squash.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
He's not slowing down, he's only speeding up.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, okay, well, good, thank you. I don't know how
to pray. I don't know how to pickaball to your
dad anymore. Squad, he's got the real thing, or what's
a faster version if he's speeding up. I don't know,
what's this faster version of squash.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Seems like ping pool they don't.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
But certainly not squash. It seems to be the fastest
of the rackets. Badminton's quack. It's the shuttlecock that lets
them down. Yeah, because and now it's a big in
the lunge or whatever and then just like this like
whip quick what a jack racket and then the shutle cck's.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Like yeh me, yeah, I don't like that. It goes men.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Get to it go faster too much lag.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
He's some honors and awards from this fellow. Okay. At
age seventeen, he was the youngest winner of the World
Open bit in Australian Jeff Hunt in the final What
a Great Australian known as Jeff Hunt. He in nineteen
eighty four featured at the age of a twenty one
on the government of Pakistani Shu'd postage stamp high honor
for a twenty one year old squash player.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
He won a bunch of awards.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Time magazine named him as one of Asia's largest heroes
of the last sixty years in two thousand and five,
sort of revolutionized, revolutionized squash as of sport played in Pakistan.
If you ended up on Time magazine's cover, what would
it be for Hailey?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Umm oh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Probably funniest Hottest woman in the world, so that laughter
was a little hard for that.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Times most Delusional, four, times Hottest.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
And Funniest, So they don't often go hand in hand.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Times the World's one hundred most delusional.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Woman, Times Hottest and Funniest Young.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
And the woman no one noticed beating her to the
top spots Hayley Scrow.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Funniest and Hottest Young Woman of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Illiterate as well, but so today's back to the day is.
The longest recognized sports streak by a top level professional
athlete belongs to je Jahangi Khan, a Pakistani squash player
who won five hundred.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
And fifty five games in the word that's weird because
when your first sit his name, you see it completely different.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Pronunciations.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
There is going Jahangi can't.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
He's a third option.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Here's a third option for you, Jehanga