| 7/2/2023 | The young sailor of A.I.O. Iason Rio Cameron Maramenidis wins the gold medal in a major international competition of the Olympic Formula Kite category, part of the 2023 US Open Sailing Series Clearwater in Florida, USA with 23 penalty points. The 2nd place is won by American M. Endegran with 29 points and the third place by British G. Bridge with 30 points. |
| 7/2/2022 | 15-year-old Kamila Valieva becomes the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics – then doing it again moments later – to punctuate the Russian Olympic Committee’s runaway gold in the team event at Capital Indoor Stadium at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. |
| 7/2/2014 | The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics takes place at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, the first Winter Olympics under the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. During the ceremony, titled "Dreams of Russia", five large snowflakes descended into the stadium which expanded and joined to form the Olympic rings. However, a technical error caused the fifth ring not to expand, and pyrotechnics did not go off from the rings. Russians will poke fun to themselves for the technical flub at the closing ceremony of 23/2/2014 as performers will deliberately leave one ring as a small, disconnected circle when creating a giant set of Olympic rings. |
| 7/2/2000 | The daily sports journal “Derby Sports” is first published with Giorgos Tragas as the editor |
| 7/2/1999 | Indian cricketer Anil Kumble became the second person in the history of cricket to take all 10 wickets in a single inning of a test match |
| 7/2/1994 | Michael Jordan signs with a baseball team, the White Sox |
| 7/2/1991 | President of the Greek Weightlifting Federation Giannis Sgouros brings Pyrros Dimas to Greece |
| 7/2/1988 | World heavyweight champion Mike Tyson marries to actress Robin Given |
| 7/2/1984 | The 14th Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo. 1.000 men and 277 women from 49 countries take part in 39 events |
| 7/2/1976 | Diane Thorne becomes the first female referee to officiate a men's football match |
| 7/2/1970 | Manchester United thrash Northampton by 8-2 and George Best scores 6 goals becoming the player with the most goals ever scored in a single match by any United player |
| 7/2/1969 | Diane Crump becomes the first female American jockey to ride at a major US racetrack at Hialeah |
| 7/2/1897 | SEGAS foundation is officially decreed on February 27 |
| 7/2/1882 | The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi. Later in the year, bare-knuckle fights will also end in England, following the ruling of the Court for Crown Cases Reserved who found that a bare-knuckle fight is an assault occasioning actual bodily harm, despite the consent of the participants |
| 7/2/1878 | First skiing club founded in Christiania (Oslo), Christiania Ski Club |
