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Sport’s greatest winning streaks

Meet a real hero of real tennis

After four-and-a-half years and 77 matches, Clermont Auvergne, were finally beaten at home, punctured in the Stade Michelin by Castres, from the Pyrenees Photo: AFP/Getty

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