The Roosters upset the Storm in the NRL grand final, The All Blacks win another Rugby Championship title while Europe embarrass team USA in Golf's Ryder cup.
Roosters playmaker Cooper Cronk is being lauded for playing in the NRL grand final despite suffering a busted shoulder a week earlier.
Not that Cronk actually did much against his old Melbourne Storm teammates, apart from a lot of shouting and pointing as the Roosters won easily.
Here are five famous cases where players took the field when mere mortals may have called it quits.
Tiger Woods - US Open 2008
Woods went into the golf major at Torrey Pines with two stress fractures of the left tibia (shinbone) and requiring reconstruction surgery on his left knee. He won the tournament — his last major victory to date — after an 18-hole playoff that required an extra hole for Woods to see of Rocco Mediate.
"I could never get myself away from thinking about the pain," said Woods, who had not made the fractures public.
"It was just constant. The treatment was constant throughout the night. I slept on the massage table, I had my knee drained, iced, elevated, worked on, just trying to get as much inflammation out as I could."
A broken foot didn't stop captain McCaw leading New Zealand to World Cup triumph in the final against France at Eden Park. He later described getting on and off the field for the semifinal against Australia as "complete agony". McCaw hid the extent of the injury from everyone. He bypassed an x-ray and played on painkillers, gritting his teeth during the week so as not to alert the team, media and public.
"I don't let on to the coaches too much, there's no point in freaking them," he later recalled.
Colin Meads - 1970 series in South Africa
The late All Black legend broke an arm early on the tour, finishing the game by claiming it was a pinched nerve. After a layoff, and with the injury yet to heal, he returned for the final two tests with a leather arm guard that was more for show than protection.
Ronaldo - 1988 FIFA World Cup final
On the day of the final between Brazil and France in Paris, the world's best player had a fit and was foaming at the mouth. A team mate had to stop him swallowing his tongue. After gong to hospital for tests and initially being withdrawn, Ronaldo magically appeared on the team sheet, but Brazil crashed to a 0 - 3 defeat. As to the cause of his problems - theories range from stress to sabotage.
"I was unconscious for three or four minutes. I don't know why. Nobody knows," Ronaldo has said.
"Was it pressure or nerves? It could be. But I pleaded with (Brazil's coach) to let me play."
Kirk Gibson during his famous hobble around the World Series bases. Photo / Getty Images
Kirk Gibson - baseball World Series 1988 Gibson had a ripped hamstring in one leg, ligament damage on the other. He hobbled into the ninth innings of game one as a pinch hitter, and smashed a one-arm home run off the outstanding closer Dennis Eckersley to win the game.
