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Sports Illustrated is a very famous American weekly. It has a mysterious cover curse?

Founded in 1954, Sports Illustrated is the oldest and most influential sports magazine in the United States, with a wide readership in the world. Countless American athletes made it the cover of the magazine. However, the editor of the magazine looked back on the decades since it was founded and found a scene that made people laugh and cry? Whoever publishes it is unlucky.

Shall we have a look at the last issue? Bad luck? What faces are there?

Let's look at the issue of 1 released on August 6, 954, in which the famous baseball player Matthews is the cover figure. At that time, Matthews led the Milwaukee Warriors to win nine consecutive victories, but the team lost for the first time on the second day of August 17. It is even more regrettable that Matthews played wrist fracture in the game a week later.

Then, 1955 In June, Meng, the cover character of alpine skiing, went to Sports Illustrated for a week and accidentally bumped into a tree during practice, which eventually led to paralysis.

The cover of the fourth issue of 1960 is 100 meter famous female backstroker Kone, who has been unbeaten in this event for four consecutive years. Become a sports illustrated? Cover girl? Later, she suffered her 1 defeat in the American Olympic trials, and the price of this defeat was the Rome Olympic Games.

196 1 February cover, figure skater Owen, a beautiful sister, was killed in a plane crash on the third day of Sports Illustrated. Later, a sports illustrated in February was found in the wreckage of the plane. On the cover, she stood on the ice and smiled at everyone. Living well? Death is here? Pictures are both visual.

What is even more surprising is that animals are not spared except the characters in the last issue. 1977, the mount photo of the famous horse racer Coulson appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Two months later, his horse lost his left leg in a pileup in Sanma, and Coulson himself suffered multiple injuries and fractures, with 25 stitches.

There are so many stars in the last issue, and there are still some that haven't been stripped. Exercise is also risky, and some accidents are not ruled out. However,? Curse? Of course you can't believe it, at least Michael? Jordan has been on the cover of Sports Illustrated for 49 times, but this does not affect his becoming a great basketball player.