| 2/2/2021 | Cristiano Ronaldo has become the top scorer in the history of football. With the 2 goals he scored against Inter in the semi-final of the Coppa Italia his all-time tally is now at 763, a figure that beats the 762 of Josef Bican and Pele. Ronaldo has scored five goals for Sporting, 118 for Manchester United, 451 for Real Madrid, 87 for Juventus and 102 for Portugal. |
| 2/2/2020 | The women basketball team of Olympiacos defeat 91-65 Chania for the 15th matchday of the A1 Division basketball championship making a world record of 112 consecutive wins in the championship (130 in greek competitions) breaking that of Connecticut Huskies in NCAA. |
| 2/2/2017 | Miltos Papapostolou, former left extreme defender of Egaleo and AEK and manager of Egaleo, AEK, the National Team and Olympiacos, dies at age 81 |
| 2/2/2014 | World juniors’ champion of 2013 in judo, Alexis Danatsidis of Philipos Aminteo, wins the bronze medal after winning at the “Greek” repessage final, the european juniors’ champion of 2013, Romain Moustopoulos in the -81 kg category at the European Judo Open Championships held in Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| 2/2/2005 | German heavyweight boxing champion Max Schmeling, who defeated Jack Sharkey on 12/6/1930 in New York and Joe Louis on 19/6/1936, dies at the age of 99. His victory against Joe Louis was used as a propoganda tool by Adolf Hitler to demonstrate Aryan supremacy but Schmeling demonstrated his satisfaction two years later, on 22/6/1938, when he lost to his coloured opponent, since he never wanted to be identified with the nazi propaganda. Later on, being the head of the German Coca Cola, he economically supported Louis when he had some health problems |
| 2/2/1997 | Raimundo Saporta, the man who brought Alfredo di Stefano to Real Madrid and organized the 1982 World Cup, dies aged 70 |
| 2/2/1996 | Sports journalist Christos Raptis dies of cancer |
| 2/2/1995 | Legendary British tennis player Fred Perry dies aged 85. He won three consecutive Wimbledon titles (1934-36), a record the great Bjorn Borg would smash many years later |
| 2/2/1979 | 34-year-old Giannis Ioannidis coaching Aris Salonica and Vangelis Alexandris, who scores 30 points (20/20 free throws), win Olympiacos by 85-82 and Aris become basketball champions for the first time since 1930 |
| 2/2/1949 | Golf world champion Ben Hogan is seriously injured in a car accident. Despite the doctors' prediction he will not give up golf |
| 2/2/1940 | First TV coverage by W2XBS of intercollegiate athletics meeting at Madison Square Garden. NY University take first place |
| 2/2/1924 | FIE is established |
| 2/2/1918 | John L. Sullivan, the last boxer who fought with bare knuckles, dies at the age of 46 |
| 2/2/1900 | Baseball American League founded |
| 2/2/1892 | The longest in duration boxing match under modern rules. 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby |
