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Watercross: Racing Snowmobiles on Water
Photo: Joe Barrett/Wall Street Journal What, you think that snowmobiles only go on snow? Joe Barrett of The Wall Street Journal explores the sport of watercross, where participants race snowmobiles on...
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10 Strange and Wonderful Boat Races
The races are strange, but the title refers to the boats. With a little ingenuity, you can build a boat, loosely defined as a “flotation device,” out of anything! 1. Beer Can Regatta The Beer Can...
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The Olympic Swimmer Who’d Never Been in an Olympic-Size Pool
Getty Images To bring the Olympic spirit to developing nations in the late 1990s, the Olympic Committee allowed a small number of “wild card” athletes to join the Games. But because they didn’t have...
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Paper Puppets Illustrate Olympic Race
You cannot broadcast any part of the Olympic Games in the U.S. unless you are NBC. You can’t even say the word “Olympics,” so I expect to get a nasty email from the IOC any day. But The Wall Street...
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11 of the Craziest Events in Olympic History
Olympic history books are filled with stories of amazing individual performances and team achievements. But from poorly conceived competitions to spectators attacking the judges, a lot of crazy stuff...
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What Happened to Starting Races With Real Pistols?
Getty Images When Usain Bolt, Wallace Spearmon and the rest of the field line up for today’s 200-meter race, they’ll kick off the race not at the fire of a pistol, but a noise triggered by an...
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The Fastest Wookiee Alive
And even if he’s not, let him win the race. Wookiees, artist Ming Doyle would remind us, tend to pull people’s legs out of their sockets when they loose. Artist’s Website -via Comics Alliance
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Teddy Roosevelt’s Historic Losing Streak Is Over
Getty Images After more than 500 losses, Teddy Roosevelt has finally won his first Presidents Race. (Yes, the Rough Rider won the 1904 presidential election, but until today, he had never won the...
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Runner Falls, Gets Trampled, Stands Up, Starts Running Again and Wins Third...
Alicia Follmar, a student at Stanford University, fell hard early in a race. Then several runners ran over her. Most people would then quit. But Alicia Follmar is not most people. She stood up and,...
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Epic R/C Race
Growing up, I loved pretty much anything that was remote controlled. I would race cars, play this video game where you pretended to have a remote control airplane, even tried to turn my model boat...
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