Greatest Moment in Sports?

Now that's a subjective topic if there ever was one. I recognize that each person will likely have a different moment that's somehow special to them; each city a defining moment; each country something that maps to them.

I got to thinking about this question as I was jetting across the country today. (BTW, I am safely home in sunny Tucson.) As a country, the United States' most memorable sports moment was probably the 1980 hockey victory over the Soviet Union. As a city, Detroit probably had its greatest sports moment in 1968 when the Detroit Tigers won the baseball World Series over the St. Louis Cardinals. That was one year after the 1967 race riots in Detroit, and that Series victory helped, to a small degree, heal some of the wounds.

But as a person, two sports moments stand out above all others in my memory:

1. The 1973 Belmont horse race, when Secretariat won the Triple Crown, setting a track record time and coming in 31 lengths ahead of the second place finisher. Secretariat's three wins -- Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont were all won impressively. Wikipedia mentions that in the Kentucky Derby, Secretariat winning time -- still a record -- also included progressively faster split times as the race went on. The Triple Crown hadn't been won since 1945 or something like that, and for some reason Secretariat captured America's heart that year. He died in 1989, having lived a long life and siring bunches of horses, and his death was on the front page of newspapers, almost 20 years after his victory. Here in the United States, any question about "greatest horse" immediately brings forth the answer: Secretariat.
   
2. Carl Lewis at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, where he anchored the men's 4 x 100 meter relay race. Lewis was starting to diminish in his abilities at that point, and there was much controversy over his anchoring that race, which the USA has dominated for quite some years now. As the third man came around the corner and passed the baton to Lewis, Lewis had only a slight lead. But that 100 meters was absolutely mesmerizing as Lewis was like a man possessed -- as fine an example of running excellence as I've ever seen. Near perfect form as he blazed that final 100 meters pulling away.
   

It's tough to choose between those two, but I'd have to say that watching Secretariat win the Belmont was the most memorable. To this day I recall the sense that I was witnessing true history in the making. Again, Wikipedia mentions that the TV cameras struggled to maintain Secretariat and the other horses in the same frame ... Secretariat was so far out in front ... and pulling away.

What special sports moments remain in your mind?