Someday — at the U.S. Open in 2018, say — when Djokovic has perhaps surpassed Federer's three hundred and eight weeks as No. 1 (the current record) and is attempting to equal his seventeen Grand Slam victories (the record), fans will flock to the Open to see him and cheer him on, recognizing how consequential his quest is.
Nicholls, who's attempting to equal the record of five Gold Cups set by Arkle's trainer Tom Dreaper, is adamant 'Conti', who now wears cheek pieces to aid concentration, is better than ever, and, significantly, that means he finishes his races better.
Márquez, who clinched his second consecutive title with a second-placed finish in Japan last week, was attempting to equal Mick Doohan's record from 1997 for most premier-class GP wins, with 12 in a season.
Moore, meanwhile, will have a full book of rides on the final day of the meeting as he attempts to equal, or even surpass, Archer's remarkable record.
Qualifying was once again dominated by Vettel, who won his ninth pole of the season and the 45th of his career as he attempts to equal Michael Schumacher's record of 13 race wins in the same season.
The architect Patrick Berger talks of his structure "opening up an east-west axis", with views of the soon-to-be revamped park next door and aligning Les Halles with both the Pompidou Centre and the Palais-Royal and Louvre, grand edifices the Canopy attempts to equal in the scale of its ambition – but not, sadly, in the quality of its execution.
The Brazil international has played his last game for the Premier League leaders, who will attempt to equal a club record 11 successive wins at Crystal Palace on Saturday, before signing a contract worth £350,000 a week after tax with André Villas-Boas's team.
As he attempts to equal, or even better, Ian Hutchinson's feat of five victories in one week his winning march may have the knock-on effect of protecting his uncle Joey's record as the odds lengthen considerably on McGuinness matching that long-standing benchmark.
Coming in at a close second place was the $30 million debut of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, which attempted to equal the runaway success of Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds over Super Bowl 2008.
"I usually like to go through a routine," Biron, 28, said by telephone before he lost in his attempt to equal the second-longest winning streak in National Hockey League history Thursday night.
In "Hunger," the British video artist Steve McQueen has made an imposing feature-length movie that attempts to equal the discipline and fanaticism of his real-world subjects — Irish Republican fighters who, incarcerated in Maze prison, in Northern Ireland, went on a hunger strike in 1981, led by Bobby Sands Michael Fassbenderr).
