Showing posts with label weird sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weird sports. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Race-Walking Marred By Scandal!

Blood doping is assaulting our sports landscape as brutally as any other rule-bending plague out there.

The latest sport to fall victim - race walking, on the World Class scale of...

MOSCOW -- Five Russian race walkers, including world record-holder Sergei Morozov, have been suspended for two years for doping. Morozov, Viktor Burayev, Vladimir Kanaikin, Igor Yerokhin and Alexei Voevodin were sanctioned by the national federation for testing positive for the endurance-enhancing hormone EPO, the All Sport news agency said Tuesday. (AP)

Enhancement drug scandals in race walking. Is cheating officially everywhere?

Link:

5 Russian race walkers banned for doping (MiamiHerald.com)

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

The Wife-Carrying World Championships

This is unreal... Finland is awesome.



Yeah, that just happened.

The winner gets his wife's weight in beer... It is derived from the tribal practice of wife stealing.


I always assumed that Finland was sort of a dark, decrepit country - incapable of something so righteous. I guess I was mistaken.

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