2016 could well go down as the year for sporting drought breakers.
Long waits - some stretching more than a century - were finally ended, first titles were celebrated and curses broken.
The Chicago Cubs were the lovable losers of Major League Baseball, but this year the century long Curse of the Billy Goat was finally broken.
At least Chicago other teams winning titles in the last 108 years, in Cleveland they had nothing.
The city went without a major championship until the second coming of LeBron James and the Cavaliers come from behind NBA Finals win over the Golden State Warriors.
Two big droughts were broken across the Tasman - the Western Bulldogs won their first AFL flag after sixty two years of trying, and the Cronulla Sharks overcame the Storm to be crowned NRL premiers for the first time in forty nine years.
Closer to home, the Hurricanes became of the last of the New Zealand Super Rugby franchises to lift the title.
Irish eyes were smiling, then incredibly drunk in Chicago, as Ireland ended 111 years of misery to beat the All Blacks for the first time.
But by far the longest drought to end in 2016 belonged to Leicester City.
The Foxes entered the Premier League season at 5000 to 1 odds of lifting the trophy, but ended it as champions.
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