Balletic Prowess
There are some sports in which any participant (under certain fairly wide parameters) can achieve sublimity, if only once, and that fleetingly.
Take a middle-aged, fundamentally unfit, park footballer, who, by happy coincidence of many factors of time and physics, and none to do with his skill, apart from an ability to swing a leg, hits a dipping 30-yard volley into the goal. A feat he’ll never repeat, but always remember. Or a weekend tennis player, whose flailing and hopeless lunge at the ball somehow produces the perfect fizzing topspin lob, landing on the baseline with utter untrievability behind her opponent.
