Luke Aikins had made over 18,000 skydives in his life but in 2016 he made his first jump without a parachute. He reached speeds of 150 mph as he plummetted for two minutes, always keeping an eye out for the tiny square of net that he needed to land on. The daredevil jumper was accompanied …
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Rabbit Show Jumping (or Kaninhop in Swedish) began in Sweden in the late 1980s and is now an international sport with tournaments being held around the world. The sport began from a rabbits enthusiasts club in Sweden who decided to hold a tournament to see whose rabbit could jump the highest/furthest. The first national championship …
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The oldest sport in the world is probably wrestling. Cave paintings found in the Lascaux caves in France appear to depict sprinting and wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic around 15,300 years ago. Cave paintings in the Bayankhongor Province of Mongolia dating back to the Neolithic age (c. 7000 BCE show a wrestling match surrounded by …
In 1980 Terry Fox decided to run 5,780 miles across Canada. He was suffering from cancer and only had one leg but he wouldn’t let a little thing like that stop him. He managed to run 3,339 miles, the equivalent of a full marathon every day, before the disease spread to his lungs and he …
Every year on the 4th of July the US state of North Carolina holds the annual Underwater Bike Race. The event takes place off the coast of Beaufort Inlet by the sunken warship the USS Indra. The competition features a prize for the best-dressed bicycle and rider. Spectators can watch the even from the surface …
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At Lake Argyle in Australia, they have a freshwater marathon every year. It is the world’s biggest freshwater swim and the lake stretches twice the length of the English Channel. But what makes it even more of a challenge is that the water is infested with over 25,000 freshwater crocodiles. Lake Argyle has the world’s …
Nike’s Vaporfly running shoes give athletes a 4.2% advantage compared to the rival Adidas Adizero Adios 3 shoes. Geoff Burns, a kinesiology researcher and pro-runner said “If 2 athletes of equal ability race, the one wearing Vaporflys will win.” The women’s marathon world record holders Brigid Kosgei broke the record by 81 seconds wearing Vaporflys. …
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Luciano was probably the most famous opera singer in the world. But did you know he also liked show-jumping? He even set up his own international show-jumping competition, the Pavarotti International. Source: Pick your brains about… Italy by Jez Matthews
Wu Bobo (China) beat the record for the Most rope crossovers while skipping backwards in 30 seconds on the set of Guinness World Records China. Wu beat the previous record of 56 skips.
Everyone knows Bolt is the fastest man in the world, running 100m in just 9.69 seconds at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He made it look easy and slowed down and started celebrating before the end of the race, thumping his chest and smiling. But did you know that he did it with a shoelace …
Most people who are in shape can pedal fast enough to produce about 100-150 watts; enough to power a fluorescent bulb, a computer monitor, a charger for a cell phone, a laptop computer, or an electric razor. But during the Tour Down Under cycle sprinter André Greipel hit an incredible 1903 watts as he reached …
The effects of watching your team lose go beyond just low mood and depression and actually effects our hormone production. Studies show that watching your favourite team causes a decrease in testosterone in both men and women.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9811365
Equestrian vaulting was an Olympic sport during the 1920s Olympic games. It is essentially gymnastics on a horse.It dates back to Roman times but is still practised today in Europe and the USA.Riders are scored on their ability to perform moves such as the mount, basic seat, flag, mill, scissors, stand and flank. Horses also …
In the 2012 London Olympics over half Great Britain’s medals were gained in sports where the athlete is or kneeling or sitting down. (Source: 1,227 QI FACTS TO BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF)
The Eton Wall Game is only played at the British Public Boys’ School; Eton College.It is similar to Rugby Union but it is played next to “The Wall” which dates from 1717.Injuries from scraping off skin of elbows and knees are frequent. Gameplay The teams form a scrummage or ‘Bully’ against the wall and each …
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