Top 10 most iconic images in the history of sports

Brandi Chastain

It is a common enough sight to see male football players taking off their shirts in celebration when they score a goal. But women, for obvious reasons, don’t do so.

But Brandi Chastain did not give too much thought when she scored the winning penalty in the final of the 1999 Women’s World Cup against China. Her celebration was genuine and honest, and this is what she had to say later on, “Momentary insanity, nothing more, nothing less. I wasn’t thinking about anything. I thought, ‘This is the greatest moment of my life on the soccer field.”

Her celebration became one of the most iconic images of any woman athlete celebrating a victory.