Editing 2010s (section)

===Sports===
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[[File:2011 IIHF World Championship gold medal celebrations in Helsinki3.jpg|thumb|upright|[[2011 IIHF World Championship]] gold medal celebrations in Finland]]
[[File:LeBron James (15662939969).jpg|thumb|upright|[[LeBron James]], a sports icon of the decade, is the only NBA player to have won four championships with three separate franchises.]]
Popular athletes of the decade included [[Cristiano Ronaldo]], [[Lionel Messi]], [[Megan Rapinoe]], [[LeBron James]], [[Kevin Durant]], [[Stephen Curry]], [[Tiger Woods]], [[Tom Brady]], [[Aaron Rodgers]], [[Floyd Mayweather]], [[Manny Pacquiao]], [[Canelo Álvarez]], [[Serena Williams]], [[Novak Djokovic]], [[Kyle Busch]], [[Conor McGregor]], [[Ronda Rousey]], [[Mike Trout]], [[Michael Phelps]], [[Usain Bolt]], [[Shaun White]], [[Kelly Slater]], [[Simone Biles]], [[Sidney Crosby]] and many more.

At the [[2010 Wimbledon Championships]], tennis players [[John Isner]] and [[Nicolas Mahut]] competed in [[Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships|the longest professional tennis match in history]], requiring five sets and 183 games for Isner to ultimately defeat Mahut in a match which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes, and was played over the course of three days. The most dominant male Tennis Players were [[Rafael Nadal]], [[Roger Federer]], and Novak Djokovic. [[Andy Murray]] was also successful in this decade. Amongst female Tennis, [[Venus Williams|Venus]] and Serena Williams dominated proceedings.

A [[Lance Armstrong doping case|doping scandal and investigation]] that was concluded in 2012 led to former professional road racing cyclist [[Lance Armstrong]] being stripped of all seven of his [[Tour de France]] titles.

On 14 October 2012, skydiver [[Felix Baumgartner]] completed a jump from the [[stratosphere]] and set world records for the highest skydive (39&nbsp;km or 24&nbsp;mi), fastest freefall speed (1,357.64&nbsp;km/h or 843.6&nbsp;mph, or [[Mach number|Mach]] 1.25), and became the first person in history to break the [[sound barrier]] without vehicular power.

In 2015, after [[Thoroughbred]] racehorse [[American Pharoah]] won the [[Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)|American Triple Crown]] and the [[Breeders' Cup Classic]], he became 12th Triple Crown winner in history and the first in more than 30 years, and in winning all four races, became the first horse ever to win the [[Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing]].

In November 2016, the [[Chicago Cubs]] won the [[2016 World Series|World Series]] for the first time since 1908, over the then-[[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]]. Their win, along with Game 7 and the entire 2016 Series, was heavily noted in the sports and baseball community. It is often considered one of the best World Series ever played, due to the underdog nature of both teams, how close the games were and especially the final game, and how it ultimately ended the over 100-year drought of the Cubs not winning a series.

In June 2017, rock climber [[Alex Honnold]] became the first person in history to [[free solo]] climb [[El Capitan]] in [[Yosemite National Park]], an accomplishment that one commentator described as "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever."

In January 2018, the final play of an [[NFL playoffs]] game between the [[2017 Minnesota Vikings season|Minnesota Vikings]] and the [[2017 New Orleans Saints season|New Orleans Saints]], dubbed the "[[Minneapolis Miracle]]", became the first time in NFL playoffs history where a game ended in a touchdown as time expired, and prompted a change to the NFL's [[American football rules#Try plays|rules]] as they pertain to [[Conversion (gridiron football)|extra-point conversion]] attempts.

====Football====
[[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] won a notable [[Premier League]] title in Club Football in [[2015–16 Premier League|2015–16]], with 5000/1 odds at the start of the season. Managers like [[José Mourinho]], [[Pep Guardiola]], [[Carlo Ancelotti]], [[Jürgen Klopp]], [[Mauricio Pochettino]], [[Didier Deschamps]], [[Antonio Conte]], and [[Luis Enrique]] were influential during this era of football.

In International Football, there were three [[FIFA World Cup|World Cups]], with European sides winning all three, [[Spain national football team|Spain]] in [[2010 FIFA World Cup|2010]], [[Germany national football team|Germany]] in [[2014 FIFA World Cup|2014]], and [[France national football team|France]] in [[2018 FIFA World Cup|2018]]. Of the finalists, only one was not European, [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] in 2014. The other finalists were [[Croatia national football team|Croatia]] in 2018 and the [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]] in 2010. [[2010 FIFA World Cup|South Africa]] hosted the first World Cup of the decade, followed by [[2014 FIFA World Cup|Brazil]] and then controversially, [[2018 FIFA World Cup|Russia]] in 2018. The [[UEFA European Championship|Euros]] were the next biggest footballing tournaments of the decade, with Spain winning the 2012 edition held in Poland and Ukraine, retaining there title from [[UEFA Euro 2008|2008]]. Iberian dominance persisted in 2016 with [[Portugal national football team|Portugal]] winning their first Major Tournament against France in France. In the [[Copa América|Copa America]], [[Uruguay national football team|Uruguay]] (2011), [[Chile national football team|Chile]] (2015, 2016) and [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] (2019) registered tournament wins. In terms of the [[Africa Cup of Nations]], the winners were [[Egypt national football team|Egypt]] in 2010, [[Zambia national football team|Zambia]] in 2012, [[Nigeria national football team|Nigeria]] in 2013, [[Ivory Coast national football team|Ivory Coast]] in 2015, [[Cameroon national football team|Cameroon]] in 2017, and [[Algeria national football team|Algeria]] in 2019.

Individual accolades were dominated by two players in particular, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. This inspired renewed focus on who the "[[wikt:GOAT|goat]]" was, especially in an increasingly online population, with both players winning [[Ballon d'Or]]s: Messi with 5, and Ronaldo with 4. The only other player to win a Ballon d'Or this decade was [[Luka Modrić]]. The dominance of Ronaldo and Messi was a key feature of the decade, especially because the two players played in the same League for the majority of the decade, with Ronaldo at Real Madrid, and Messi at Barcelona. The two often met in the famous [[El Clásico]] fixture.

====Rugby====
[[Rugby (sport)|Rugby]] was another well-attended sport in this decade. The landscape of club rugby saw the emergence of the Japanese theatre, with big players heading to Japan. [[RC Toulon|Toulon]] versus [[Racing 92]] in the [[2015–16 Top 14 season|2015–16 Top 14]] final broke records for club rugby when it clocked over 99,000 in attendance at [[Camp Nou]] in Barcelona.

International rugby saw the emergence of several new elite sides, with teams like [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]] as a new major player in the European sphere, and on a larger global sphere, where they peaked at Number 1 in 2019, [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]] also saw significant improvement and wins, with their overall achievements leading to a stint at Number 1 in 2019. [[New Zealand national rugby union team|New Zealand]] and [[Japan national rugby union team|Japan]] made headlines during the decade, the latter by beating the [[South Africa national rugby union team|South Africa national side]] in [[The Brighton Miracle|2015]]. Wales, [[England national rugby union team|England]], and Ireland dominated the [[Six Nations Championship|Six Nations]], though France did win in 2010. In the [[The Rugby Championship|Rugby Championship]], [[Argentina national rugby union team|Argentina]] were admitted during the 2011 season, in a general surge in South American rugby, with [[Uruguay national rugby union team|Uruguay]] becoming established. New Zealand dominated the Rugby Championship, winning all but 2 of the tournaments, losing out in Rugby World Cup years. [[Italy national rugby union team|Italy]] earned wins versus France and Ireland as well as a shock win against South Africa alongside semi-regular wins against [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]].

The [[Rugby World Cup]] was held three times in the 2010s, firstly in New Zealand in [[2011 Rugby World Cup|2011]], where hosts New Zealand beat France 8–7 in the final. New Zealand beat Australia in [[2015 Rugby World Cup|2015]], 34–17 to become the most successful world cup team and the first team to win Back-to-Back titles. Japan hosted the [[2019 Rugby World Cup|2019]] World Cup and [[South Africa national rugby union team|South Africa]], led by their first Black Captain, [[Siya Kolisi]], won against England in the final 32–12. This was a World Cup of firsts, being the first in Asia, and because Japan progressed as top of their Group after famous wins versus Ireland and Scotland and were beaten only by the eventual winners in the Quarter final. It also saw Uruguay get their first World Cup win against [[Fiji national rugby union team|Fiji]]. This world cup was the first one in which a team who had lost a group game won the tournament, with South Africa previously losing to New Zealand in pool play.