That team is Italy, whose 2-1 victoverover the favored German side in this year's European Championship extended a long run of major-tournament domination over Germany.
But that was before one of the most memorable halves in rugby league history, which ended Australia's 33-year domination of this tournament - and left New Zealand as world champions for the first time.
Although he was playing in the lowest-rated group against adult players, his domination of the tournament, best exemplified in a game won with a 29-move checkmate, established him as a player with enormous potential and led American chess player Lubomir Kavalek to dub him the "Mozart of chess".
But of more international significance was the penalty try awarded by British video referee Steve Ganson to New Zealand at a crucial stage of their win against Australia in the 2008 World Cup final, ending the Kangaroos' domination of the tournament going back to 1975.
BADMINTON: CHINA WINS FOURTH GOLD China completed its domination of the badminton tournament last night with a fourth gold medal out of a possible five.
This was a heartening sign, for neutrals at least, that the tournament need not slip into the permanent domination of Spain or England.
Indeed, her domination had become so complete that a tournament seemed newsworthy only when she didn't win it.
It has been 30 years since Borg won his sixth and last French Open, and it was possible to imagine then that no other relentless baseliner would be able to match Borg's domination at the world's greatest clay-court tournament.
When Australia's men's team reached that level of domination they included their A team in their own tournaments and concocted a game against the Rest of the World.
After a run of regional domination by the United States in the first five games of the round-robin tournament, World Cup qualifying slowed to a more realistic pace over the weekend.
No matter how many international tournaments the United States has won, Norway has always played the role of asterisk in the American domination of women's soccer.
