Messi ended the year with 91 goals to his name as he beat the previous record mark of goals scored in a calendar year -- the 85 converted by Germany's Gerd Muller in 1972.
Many baseball fans already attach a mental asterisk to Bonds' career home run record or Mark McGwire's single-season home run record.
He has the opportunity to break the Olympics' most hallowed record and eclipse Mark Spitz's seven gold medals in the 1972 games.
That would break the fabled record of seven that Mark Spitz accumulated in 1972.
Thursday's rain-hit session at the Catalunya circuit saw Australia's Mark Webber record the fastest time after conditions dried out in the afternoon.
His teams at New Mexico won at least 22 games in each of his six seasons, highlighted by a school-record 30-5 mark in 2009-10.
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The 34-year-old remains 41 runs short of the mark, a record he will be keen to address in the morning session on day two.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant has a black mark on its record from earlier in the last decade, when a scandal involving falsified safety records led to parent company Tepco briefly shutting down its entire nuclear fleet in Japan.
The falls mark a retreat from record high levels for several indexes.
Sure, Vick was good, leading the team to a 38-28 record and a 2-2 mark in the playoffs during his six seasons in Atlanta.
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There was a time when Vlasic was inching closer and closer to the world record of Stefka Kostadinova, a mark the Bulgarian has held for more than 25 years.
Arabs such as the al-Thanis of Qatar pay record prices for the abstract expressionism of Mark Rothko.
Ponting moved to 8, 498 runs in 238 one-day matches, within a shot of Mark Waugh's Aussie record of 8, 500 from 244 appearances.
Mark Johnston continued his fantastic record in the Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot as Holberg stretched right away from his rivals under Joe Fanning.
France's Amaury Leveaux set a new world record in the 50m freestyle with a mark of 20.48, while Italy's men's relay team set a new world best of 1:32.91 in the 4x50m medley.
The Pacers improved to 8-5 against the Eastern Conference's top seeds, a mark that includes the perfect record against the Bulls, a 2-0 record against Miami and a 2-1 record against the New York Knicks.
An England quartet of Andy Baddeley, Ricky Stevenson, Nick McCormick and Mark Draper smashed the 30-year-old UK 4x1, 500m relay record in finishing fifth in 14:54.57 to erase the previous mark by two seconds.
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If temperatures continue to hit 100 degrees or more by Saturday, Dallas will have set a record -- becoming the first city to mark 43 consecutive days of temperatures above 100 degrees.
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As it moves onto 1, 000 screens across the U.S. this weekend from 650, "Life" becomes the first foreign-language movie to hit that mark, easily passing the previous record holder, "Il Postino, " which played on roughly 400 screens.
He has taken 0.16 sec off the 100m record in just 15 months - previously the mark had been lowered by only 0.21secs by seven athletes over a 39-year period - and some continue to question whether or not he is clean.
Android, having topped the 100 million unit mark last quarter, reached a new record level in a single quarter.
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Streep's nomination gave her a record 16 Oscar nods -- extending her own mark -- well ahead of Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson's 12 each.
However, Chelsea remain favourites to win their first Premier League crown since 2006, which would end United's hopes of a fourth successive league title and a record 19th in total - overhauling Liverpool's mark of 18.
Yield on 10-year Treasuries breached the 2% mark on the downside and traded at record lows, as fearful investors rushed into Treasuries. (Read Operation Twist Set To Fail As Bernanke Insists On Flattening The Yield Curve).
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It began after the '98 baseball season after he had seen the fuss that was made over Mark McGwire when McGwire broke Maris's record.
Bobby Tambling currently holds the record of 202 goals, while Drogba reached the century mark for Chelsea last month and now stands on 102 goals.
Despite the fact that the world record has come down considerably - El Guerrouj's mark is three minutes 43.13 seconds - Moorcroft believes it is still an important part of training.
In the past two trading days alone, the Nikkei rose 3.8% to a fresh four-year, seven-month high, closing at 12833.64 Friday on record trading volume after briefly crossing the 13, 000 mark for the first time since just before Lehman Brothers collapsed.
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