The Biles rule is absolutely insane. I agree lessor athletes shouldn’t even think of trying those extreme moves, but to score her less than isn’t fair sportsmanship. Score her abilities, and if she win’s everything sobeit, once she retires others can win top spot . This everybody get’s a trophy is for nursery school.

The back flip on ice is impressive and landing on 1 foot is even more impressive

You missed Nadia Komanichi. She scored so many perfect 10’s that they lowered the scoring for many of the moves. After that Olympics a perfect 10 actually became almost impossible. Scores were given a difficulty curve rating which made it all but impossible for the best athletes to get the highest scores…think the Biles ruling in the 70’s.

Fun fact about Surya: She had a background in gymnastics. She got out of it since she preferred figure skating.

A backflip on figure skates is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.

Ricky Williams: Drafted straight out of college. Every other NFL player: Drafted straight out of college.

While not a rule, Shaq actually is responsible for how backboards and rims are currently constructed. Instead of the rim being affixed to the backboard itself, it's actually attached to another piece of framing BEHIND the backboard (with the backboard basically acting as a divider). That way, the rim being hung on would put the pressure point on more metal, rather than the glass/backboard. The structural frame of the entire basket was also strengthened to prevent hydraulic failures too.

Surya Bonaly..still as incredible as watching that backflip at the Olympics for the first time.

“Ricky was so talented, he was drafted into the NFL straight out of college.” Wow, that is rare!

A small part of me feels like those rules against Simone Biles may have contributed to the mounting pressure, and her ultimately pulling out of some of the olympic competitions last year

The fact that there was ever a debate about pulling hair in football is crazy enough . But the fact that they allow it is craaaazyyy!

In the vein of the Stanky rule, Sean Avery also led to a rule limiting what a player in front of the net can do in the NHL. I think it was Brad Marchand that led to licking your opponent being specifically mentioned as unsportsmanlike conduct. Also, the success of the Edmonton Oilers, led by Wayne Gretzky, that led to the change in rules that power plays from minor penalties would end after a goal was scored.

Simone- The point is that those two things doesn’t have anything to do with each other. She should be able to score the most points she can for her career. As an athlete she can be at the top of her game or cement her standing as the greatest ever until years later when someone else comes to challenge that. But it messes up her (real value) if the great things she does is nerf for “others safety”. At the Olympic level they should know their capabilities and how not to hurt themselves. It also should not be Simone’s responsibility to dial it down so they won’t “think” they can do what she can. It’s crazy that the bosses went and did it anyways. You shouldn’t value someone less to make everyone else feel better. That would be incredibly disrespectful to any athlete

Has to be Biles. Having her moves score less basically just means that another winner will always be questioned of weather or not they were best.

Biles clearly stands out. Imagine being penalized in order to level the playing field...Just wow...

Surya Bonaly was always a favourite of mine to watch. I didn't pay attention to many figure skaters that weren't part of my home country unless they were getting in the way of figure skaters from my home country winning. But the first time I saw her (Surya)do a flip on the ice, I was mesmerized. I always watched for her after that. I see can't understand to this day, why a flip is illegal? It's gotta be extremely different and it's so artistically beautiful.

In 1952, Jean Béliveau of the Montreal Canadiens scored three goals against Terry Sawchuk of the Chicago Blackhawks during a single power play. That event forced a rule change where from now on, a penalty ends when a power-play goal is scored

Imagine having the name candy Cummings. That’s epic

I remember Surya Bonaly doing backflips and was absolutely stunned. I had no idea it was done before, although I must have seen it because the 1976 Winter Olympics was the first one I watched in my lifetime. Guess I just too young to remember, although I do remember Bruce Jenner in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

You forgot the trapezoid they created for Marty Brodeur in the NHL. He was too effective at handling pucks dumped into the offensive zone, allowing his team to press defensively.

Minor correction, it was the international gymnastics association (FIG) that devalued Biles' moves, not USAG. USAG actually rated her dismount a tenth higher the first time she competed it at a US meet (when it wasn't in the official rulebook, in which case USAG assigns a value based on how they expect the move would be valued at the international level), but then when she submitted it at the international level, the FIG assigned it a lower-than-expected value, and that's the rating that goes into the official code.

How about world record javelin thrower Jan Železný, he launched it so far that it became dangerous to be on the track. So they had to make a rules change that the javelins themselves became significantly heavier so no one could throw them as far.

Surya Bonaly, what a great legend! HUGE performance from a petite artistic skater!

You should make a part 2 for this one. I can remember 2 others at the top of my head and pretty sure there are some more. 1) there was this German javelin thrower who threw the javelin so far that it cleared the length of the field and beat the 2nd longest throw by a long run. Later they changed the shape of the javelin and made it heavier so it can’t be thrown that far. 2) There was this guy in cricket (pretty much like baseball ) whose team nearly lost and then he shocked the world by doing an under arm throw. Basically rolled the ball on the ground towards batsman and naturally he couldn’t hit it and that team won. That ball wasn’t breaking any rules at the time but immediately after that, under arm throws were banned forever.

It's downright criminal to not include Ingemar Stenmark in a list like this. The FIS changed the very scoring system for the Alpine Ski World Cup with the pronounced intent of stopping Ingemar from winning it again. No nit-picking of some technical trickery, or downplaying some special advantage - just straight up redesigning the system to make him not win any more.

You forgot the Gretzky rule. Knowing that 4 on 4 skating in hockey opened up the ice for talented players, the Edmonton Oilers used to purposely take penalties such as fighting knowing that both them as well as an opposing teams player would be sent to the penalty box leaving the teams to skate 4 on 4. Which all knew would benefit Gretzky more than any other player. So the league created the matching penalty rule that kept the teams at 5 on 5.

So basically the gymnastics committee punished Simone Biles for being the greatest gymnast of all time? Why would you discount someone's hard work just to benefit someone less talented? If they can't compete at the highest level of competition, then they should just find something else to do. Don't punish Simone for the other girls inability to compete! That's stupid!

You left out Rene Higuita. One of the greatest soccer goalies of all time who proved goalies could do more than just holding the ball. He influenced major rule changes for goalies

The Oilers rule in the NHL you used to both go down a man when you would fight so instead of it being even strength 5x5 it would be 4x4 but the oilers were so good 4x4 they would literally do it any time they needed a goal and it almost always worked. The Brodeur/Roy rule was the Trapezoid behind the net because they were too good at playing the puck. The Devils rule was eliminating the red line to reduce the effectiveness of the TRAP. The NHL rule book is full of rules created to stop dynasties and GOATS.

The Sidek Brothers (amazingly 5 of them) were top badminton players representing Malaysia that invented the "S" serve, which forces the receiver either fail to return the serve outright or returning it poorly. The IBF banned the technique with shady reasoning just to make things more "competitive".

Simone Biles is now the greatest gymnast to ever have lived and ever WILL live. No matter how much another gymnast achieves, because of these rules, they will never be as great as Biles.

Simone Biles! Amazing Gymnast! Regards from Tabasco, México [Land of The Olmecs]!

He's technically not an athlete, but a guy named Terry Ewert took two remote controlled machines with a shuffling mechanism each to a robot fighting competition called Battlebots in 2001. At that time, both shufflers (like his bots Whyachi and Son of Whyachi) and true walkers (robots with legs that didn't make continuous contact with the ground) were given the same weight bonus over their wheeled counterparts. After Son of Whyachi won the heavyweight division, the Battlebots officials changed the rules so that shufflers no longer had the same weight benefits as true walkers. The robot has not won a championship since, but we fans still remember it fondly.

Before watching this video I could only think of one player that had to require a rule change. Wayne Gretzky. He was so fast at the wrap around goal, that they had to widen the distance between the net and the back of the rink to allow more players able to get back there and challenge him. ... and I didn’t see that here 😅

Well, in the world of Cricket, Sir Don Bradman's achievements are closure to that of gods than any other player. He has a batting average of 99.94, while the second highest is just above 60. The British were so afraid of him that, that in specific test series, they invented a special tactics to stop him. They put 7 fielders in the on side, and started bowling full tose balls, aimed towards his body. Bradman still managed to score some runs in the series, but Australia ended up losing. The series itself became infamous as "Bodyline" series. For long, the rule of bowling a full tose ball above vest height has been banned. There is a TV series just focused on the series, in which Hugo Weaving played the role of Douglas Jardine, the English captain back then, and the progenitor of Bodyline.

I have played a grand total of 1 game of golf, funnily enough the one and only part I didn't suck at was long drives, as near as I can tell golfers just plain don't know how to hit a ball hard...which is a _really_ weird thing to say. lemme explain: they all use mild variations on that classic golf swing stance supposedly because it gives you more control throughout the swing (and quite likely because it's classic, institutionalized traditions can be incredibly pervasive in insular communities) but you only actually care about maybe 3 inches of that movement at absolute most. so, any swing that lets you controll the orientation of the club when it hits and a tiny portion of it's arc and ideally lets you mitigate vibration in some way _is_ a mechanically valid swing, any way you can extend that movement and find ways to focus more energy into that focal point is going to produce a lot more force than just swinging mostly the same way but harder. I gave the old golf swing a try, found it increadibly awkward and downright unsafe since it put my strike zone out of line with my grip setting off every red flag I've developed in a long life of hitting objects with other objects, and fairly quickly just gave up on it and instead started playing around with some of the other ways I've practiced hitting things with a stick, long story short I found a few ways that I could get accurate shots while hitting the ball hard enough to border on popping it (or outright popping it in one case), most of which involved some kind of step-through and rotation to elongate the movement and allow me to use a body position that enabled using most of my body for power stabilization and adjustment instead of just my arms and one leg and relying on grip tension to adjust. so basically I was putting enough oomph into the motion to push a car a few feet and directing most of that energy into my swing, only a little bit of that can actually transfer to the ball but I was still hitting the green on the first hit any time there weren't trees directly in the way (the other big advantage to a motion like that being that you can bleed off the excess force MUCH safer if you're swinging rotating than up, if you could somehow swing that hard normally you'd have to either throw the club or snap your back trying to stop yourself). all that said I wouldn't be even remotely surprised to find that rules mandate specific ways of swinging the club.

They literally nerfed Simone 😂😂 that's crazy

Miss Biles has no equal: hands down the most talented. It is outrageous to penalize her for her skill. The hockey slasher is certainly the worst. Can't call that 'playing the game' under any circumstances. It is a vicious, criminal attack.

i also forgot the male iceskater who did a backflip in his run and STILL won first place even after the points were deducted. that's how DAMN GOOD he was.

The Hal McRae rule: Hal was a very aggressive and successful baserunner who would slide into second hard to break up a potential double-play, often going out of the basepath with legs high to crash into the fielder. This was fairly common in baseball before that -- Ty Cobb was famous for it -- but after McRae, the rules were changed to limit damage to the runner and fielder.

Also include "the endless match" of tennis between John Isner and Nicholas Mahut that lasted over 3 days and forced the Wimbledon to change the rules to include a tiebreaker after the 5th set.

The rules that are biased against Simone are absurd.

Shaq is a giant man with a giant heart

I think that some of them weren't because they needed too but because they just didn't want them to win... which is quite rude and devious

I was most impressed by the woman that landed a one foot backflip on ice skates😮

How is Wayne Gretzky not on this list? The guy had his OWN TEAM TAKE PENALTIES which was pretty much a death sentence for the opposing team. With that much open ice, that guy was literally unstoppable.

Tim Lobinger, a German worldclass Pole-Vaulter in the early 2000s was known for putting the bar back on mid air after hitting it. The practice was banned shortly after just because of him. Legend.

I remember watching the Mancini and Kim match on TV. It changed modern boxing forever!

"Boom Boom" Mancini almost retired from boxing after that fight. That story really hit close to home. My family was close with his priest and we went to the same church. I was just a kid but I remember our church doing a memorial service.

You missed the NFL defensive legend who had a rule changed because his brutal style of play terrorized offensive lineman and quarterbacks; and probably left many of them with permanent brain injuries. David "Deacon" Jones played defensive end; mostly with the Los Angeles Rams, for 14 seasons and in that time span he only missed playing 6 games. We all know the term "sacking the quarterback," but Deacon Jones invented it, literally. He used to talk about "putting the opposing lineman in a burlap sack and beating them with a baseball bat" and doing the same thing to opposing quarterbacks. At the time Deacon Jones played (1961-74) quarterback sacks weren't an official NFL statistic; however, modern statisticians have discovered that when Jones retired, he was the career leader in quarterback sacks and is the number 3 all time leader in quarterback sacks today behind Bruce Smith and Reggie White with 173.5 sacks. Deacon Jones deadly tactic was the head slap. He didn't invent it, he just perfected it. His hand speed and long arms allowed Jones to whack the opposing lineman on the side of their helmet. Jones wanted to disorient his opponents, make them blink so Jones could use his blazing speed to get around the lineman and go after the quarterback or chase down the opposing running back. If you watch a video showing Deacon Jones highlights you will notice his hands are taped up to protect them. What you can't see is that after taping his hands, plaster was applied to the tape. The kind of plaster that was used to make casts, for a broken arm, for instance. After the plaster dried Jones would have more tape put over the plaster. Deacon Jones played Left Defensive End. Imagine you're the Right Tackle on the opposing team and you get whacked in the head ten to twenty times during the game. How much energy are you going to have left in the Fourth Quarter to continue trying to stop Jones? Probably not a whole lot, and your mental capacity might have lost something as well. After Jones retired the NFL outlawed the head slap. Here are two short videos which will show you Deacon Jones' greatness: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdeToNh0yN2nmYk.html&ab_channel=NFL kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsqJi5py0sqmXZc.html&ab_channel=MikeKennedy

Berkoff / Suzuki were amoung the first swimmers to maximize underwater kicking in swimming... they now restict how far swimmers can kick underwater... even with 15m limit its now an essential skill in many races

Here's a couple of more: Ingemar Stenmark forced the introduction of combination points since we won the overall Alpine Word Cup 1976-1978 without doing any of the high speed disciplines. He won one slalom race with over 4 seconds. Gunde Svan, a cross country skier, who were seen at the practise during the World Championship in 1985 using one single 2 metre long ski pole, of which use were banned the same evening.

The fact that Shaq only did one 3-points in his gigantic career made me giggling XD

That girl landed a backflip on one leg 😱🤯🤯🤯

Though I’m not a sports person I found this video very interesting. Great job.

Biles...super human. A different level of bodily intelligence

you forgot pat venditte he was an ambidextrous pitcher, but once he faced a switch hitter there was a loop of changing sides so the mlb said that the hand the pitcher wanted to pitch with must be clearly indicated

6:oo Eddie Stanky's manager was Leo Durocher (Da-RO-sher), not Duracher.

(9:00) this "fouling a player" is an example of what I like to call "a fine is not a punishment, it's a license". say you park somewhere illegal and you get a fine? well, that fine is, in a way (if you are "fine" with paying it) basically a license to park illegally. when you are ok with taking a foul, it's no longer a punishment, and that, kinda, voids the whole point of a foul.

Bill Koch pioneered the skating technique for cross country skiing forcing them to create freestyle events which allowed skating and the Classic Events which ban skating

To this day when Shaq sees someone with a sign “Free Hugs” he assaults them, then walks back several feet to throw. Even if he has nothing in his hands to throw, it’s just muscle memory as he knew it wouldn’t go anywhere anyways.

I'd have to add the NHL's Brodeur Rule. Brodeur’s prowess at puck handling was so well known that it led in part to the NHL changing its rules regarding where goalies were allowed to handle the puck outside of the goal crease, adding what is known as “The Brodeur Rule”.

By looking at mostly obscure sports, dominant only in one or two countries, you've missed the most famous case. The bodyline tour of 1932/33 saw master tactician Douglas Jardine exploit a loophole in the laws of cricket. By getting his bowlers to consistently bowl short pitched deliveries (before helmets!) and packing the legside field, he nullified the great Australian batting lineup which included the greatest batter of all time: Don Bradman. Now, there is a fielding restriction in all forms of the game whereby you cannot have more than two fielders behind square on the legside.

Had to like this just because the km was added on top of miles, I really apreciate it so it makes so much more sense in european metrics. ty you got my likes :D!

Damn. I totally remember Fabiola. That was toward the beginning of adding aggressive skating to the Xgames in in the 90's

"He once missed all free throws he made." Smh.

excellent video, the back flip on ice was really cool. The slashing rule and Sidney Crosby??? Slashing has been a penalty just about since they started making rules in hockey. Maybe they look for it more or give out 5 minute majors for slashing or 10 minute misconduct + a game suspension if it is bad, but no rule was made because of Sidney Crosby

Been following for a long time. That was a great episode! I'd like to find out how I trade my research for free to support you and enter into this genre with the Sci Sho and Mr Wizard. Just realized that's my calling. MYTH Busters! Started with Mr Rodgers... Then how it's made. I love that stuff! What can a 54 yo capable man do in that industry?

0:43 Ricky Williams was drafted straight out of college? No way! That's impressive!

Simone will forever be the greatest gymnast of all time over them doing that. They immortalized her 🤷🏻‍♂️

You said that it's considered hair pulling, but many of the players would actually allow the hair to grow long because others would not pull their hair. It was way to avoid getting tackled. Many of them would grow the hair long and some even put in extensions because it made it impossible to pull them down without grabbing it.

I remember hearing about Fabby. I never really watched the X Games but I did see a few of the competitions.

The ball doesn’t go to the other team after the free throw is missed.. it goes to whatever team rebounds the ball.

The craziest thing about the NBA penalizing teams for breaking the backboards is that in the International basketball rules it was offense to grab the ring the way the NBA allowed the players to grab the ring and hang from it, and it had been for many years before Shaq started playing. Also, on the opening clip with Shaq driving to the basket, under the International rules at that time the basket wouldn't count and he'd have been called for a foul for the way he elbowed the defender in the head. But that sort of contact was allowed in the NBA.

4:00 I remember this. It was just amazing.

one correction: vert skating refers explicitly to skating on vert ramps, that have a vertical section of wall before the lip. it's nowhere near as "suicidal" as it's made out to be here.

Misbun Sidek in Badminton. The man served in such a way that even the officials couldn't predict where the shuttlecock was going to land. Needless to say, his technique was banned.

I think of all of the aforementioned athletes, Kim Duk Soo's demise was the saddest, the fact that him mom and the referee over the fight took their lives after he died, is very to say the least tragic.

George Mikan caused defensive goaltending to be banned. Wilt Chamberlain caused offensive goaltending to be banned as well as staying in the paint longer than than three seconds. Dean Smith caused the NCAA to FINALLY have a shot clock about three decades after the NBA did so. I don't recall the alleged greatest basketball player Michael Jordan ever causing the NBA to force any rule changes to nerf him (which was exactly the point Wilt made when he said that was the main reason why he was the greatest and not MJ).

I cannot let this go. Referenced as Leo Duracher, Leo 'the Lip' Durocher was a baseball icon. He played in 17 seasons and was a decent player. He played fro two World Series Champions, for the Yankees and the Cardinals. His 1928 trophy was along side Yankees greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. But his real fame came as a manager. He led 3 teams to the WS, winning one with the Willie Mays led 1954 NY Giants. He is one of 12 managers to win more than 2,000 games. His nickname, Leo the Lip, came from his legendary arguments with umpires. He also had contentious relationships with his GMs, owners and league president Happy Chandler. He was known to be a little too close to gangsters, even admitting he had a passing friendship with Bugsy Seagel. Additionally he is sometimes referred to as the author of the phrase "nice guys finish last", though it is doubtfull he coined the phrase. Though he did take it as his own and used it frequently. He was inducted to the Hall of Fame posthumously in 1994 by the veterans commitee. He died in 1991 at the age of 86. I am old enough to remembee hin. RIP coach.

The blowing ball thing make me laugh hard ... I like that man !!

Eddy Stanky is my personal favorite. He was at first against integration, but after just a few games he noticed Jackie Robinson would not stand up for himself and took the opposing player's abuse. So, Eddy stuck up for Robinson, even getting in many fist fights. Thats a good man right there.

Another rule change that I find interesting comes from Pole Vaulting. There was a pole vaulter named David Volz that became really good at adjusting or even replacing the bar on the vertical stands mid-jump, now known as “volzing”. The technique is now banned in pretty much every form of competitive pole vault because of how much it would boost heights when utilized.

Does anyone notice the picture moving at 9:56?

I really hadn't followed Simone Biles' career - just knew that she was yearly gaining more and more attention. I was surprised to learn that some of her moves were downgraded to discourage less-gifted gymnasts from killing themselves. Same with figure skating: it's hard to believe the backward flip is still prohibited. I don't want to see anyone get hurt, but --

In short of most cases, you are so good, we must ban those or else other people will cry! Progress is only possible by following inspiration and facing or even going beyond death at moments! (from a personal standpoint, not that companies should work people to death, like amazon does). The moments of Going Beyond are the highlights of life and existence of a human being and especially in terms of inspirational expression to help progress mankind, in a lot of these cases it only shows how much we are holding ourselves back with modern day society.

My boy Wilt put in that WORK. He's always on my all time draft in 2k

You forgot BOB GIBSON & the reduced height of major league pitching mounds folo his epic 1968 season & his legendary domination of batters.

So amazing to see player revamping the game to make it more entertaining!

7:34 Poor shaq, they made him dislike hugs 🤣14:25 Sounds unfair to penalize her for being better than others.

Tom Dempsy was the substitute junior high librarian for my town(Dracut,MA) while playing for a semi-professional team(Lowell Giants) in the bordering city before kicking for the Saints.

At the start of the 1967 men's college basketball season, the NCAA banned the slam dunk. This was because of Kareem-Abdul Jabbar (playing under his birth name of Lew Alcindor at UCLA). Though not officially attributed to him, most people felt that it was due to his dominating size, he was over 7 feet tall. With that done, he soon developed and perfected the "Sky Hook". The no dunk rule was rescinded by the NCAA in 1977.

I'm honestly surprised you didn't mention the "Kam Chancellor and Bobby Wagner Rule". Where the NFL made it illegal to jump over the line of scrimmage to block a Field Goal or Extra Point. Legion of BOOM!! GO HAWKS!!

omg! it makes so much sense now! Do the Stanky leg! Dancing/moving of your legs to cause distraction!

K1 changed the rules in 2004 after Buakaw destroyed everyone with his knees to take the belt. So he came back in 2006 and knocked everyone out with his hands. Legend.

Tell me you don't watch sports without saying you don't watch sports. Narrator, Ricky Williams was so good, he was drafted to the NFL right out of college

You didn't mention when college basketball outlawed the dunk while Jabar was in college and allowed it when he went to the NBA.

You forgot to include the quite notorious Sidek service or S serve in badminton, where the shuttlecock was hit in the feather instead of the cork head when serving that causes it to spin wildly and would usually goes sideways when received by the opponent. It was finally banned in july 1982

I'm just happy the video revealed the thumbnail within 5min, 👏👏👏👏👏🔥🥴👌🏾

That's amazing!!! Doing a back flip on ice?!! Holy moly!! That was epic!!😊❤️😍😍😍😍