Maybe too recent to make the list, but just a few weeks ago Mikko Rantanen scored a hat trick and an assist in the 3rd period of a game 7 to come back from 2 goals down and eliminate the team that traded him away in the regular season, that’s gotta be higher than a lot of these.

Surely one of the too many NFL highlights could have been dropped to include Eliud Kipchoge breaking 2 hours over 26.2 miles, or Ruth Chepng'etich breaking 2:10 at the Chicago Marathon.

Cool. Only one (1) moment from women's sports in the top 20 and four in the top 50 😒

Overall, The Ringer staff can be fairly thoughtful, but they also pretty famously have a Boston-leaning bias, and an NBA one as well (the latter is okay by me as I share that NBA bias.)

At the time this was published I remember thinking that it seemed pretty weighted towards singular moments as opposed to their larger place in sports history. For example, the Cubs wild world series win behind another Heat finals win, another LeBron moment, another Tiger Woods win, etc.)

Hmm is right.
The number one is particularly egregious. "The Helmet Catch is the single most improbable sports moment of the 21st century." My butt! The most improbable sports moment of the 21st century so far is clearly the double post penalty kick that helped the Timbers beat Sporting KC in the run up to the 2015 MLS Cup. Duh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fVJMtM9s8E

Yeah...hmm. I'm pretty sure my spouse...also Boston-biased...thinks the butt fumble should rank higher, but probably agrees with Superbowl XLIX...which I, as a Seahawks fan, want to forget. (My cat agrees, though, too, because after that I never ever made her wear the fleece Patriots sweater someone brought for her again. :) ) But honestly, there's a lot of highly ranked golf and there's...bowling?...and no cycling? (Yeah, the drug era, but they included Bonds. And women's cycling is pretty amazing.) No long-distance running? Very few women, especially outside basketball. Maybe they need to watch more real sports.

Kudos to the designers on this, very well executed. I particularly like how they made the video clips match the rest of the illustrations.

I had not seen that Michelle Kwan performance, and maybe it was just that kind of week, but that is one of the most beautiful performances of any kind I’ve ever seen.

We added one this weekend. Pro cycling witnessed one of the great redemption stories in the history of sport. British cyclist Simon Yates had been leading the tour of Italy (Giro D'Italia) in 2018, when he collapsed on the next to last day of the 21 day event on an brutal mountain climb called the Col de Finestre, giving away the race to Chriss Froome who rode off on a solo adventure epic enough to be called "pulling a Froome".
This year's Giro returned to the Finestre,also on the next to last day, and found Yates in 3rd place behind a young phenom leading the race and a former winner charging to take the win. As the two front runners faced off, Yates went solo ahead of them, and with the help of a teammate tactically positioned to help him, he pulled of a come-from -behind win for the ages, on the very same mountain that 7 years before had been the lowest point of his career.
I would urge anyone to seek out video recaps of the scenes as he collapses in tears surrounded by his team and peers. It was truly a story that hollywood could never match.