As duels go, this might well be the GOAT,
so let’s take off, get them out of the way.
For us, who watched what they put on display,
the chance that we’ll forget it is remote.
To say it plain and simple: they rewrote
the hist’ry of their sport on yonder day.
The superstar excelled without delay –
and yet he lost. And did no longer gloat.
His efforts, his attempts had been in vain –
despite three twenty-nines, he stood aghast:
so many years of trying, so much pain!
The die was (metaphorically) cast,
the less prestigious athlete took the reign
and stayed, no: has been staying unsurpassed.
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