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?
Canada’s Diane Roy, who set a Paralympic record with a time of 11:45:03, was awarded the gold. But after three of the nations competing protested, officials decided the race would be re-run.
Anthony Lappe made it a perfect 11 out of 11 for Britain in cycling events, with a gold in the men’s sprint for the visually impaired! Here he is pictured with pilot Barney Storey, whose wife Sarah Storey won gold for Britain in cycling as well.
Check out highlights of yesterday’s events from Paralympic.tv’s YouTube channel – including Lappe’s gold medal (world record setting to boot) run, and that wild crash…
I’ve been slacking on here, but this aught to redeem myself at least a little…
ALBION — No one struck out when it came to playing a marathon whiffle-ball game over the weekend for charity and a scholarship fund…They recorded the marathon on tape. It began at 7 p.m. Friday and ended at about 7 p.m. Saturday. (Whiffle-ball game for charity lasts 24 hours, sets record – Erie Times-News)
I think these stats speak for themselves…
Final Score: 935 – 514, the game ended in the top of the 149th inning (there was no need for the home team to bat in the bottom half…with a 421 run lead)
According to one of the player’s wives, some players hit 150 to 200 home runs (with a 64-foot fence, she’s probably not exaggerating that bad)
The players raised $1500 for charity, and (surprise, surprise) they could find themselves in the Guinness Book of World Records.
It’s a world record that would make most people dizzy.
Bounce, bounce, bounce … for 24 hours. That was what eight boys in Michigan did this week in an effort to set a world record.
The boys began the attempt Friday morning at the Bounce-a-Lot entertainment center southwest of Detroit in Flat Rock.
They bounced two at a time in shifts in an inflatable castle. (Metro UK Weird News)
What grinds my gears about these kids is that they’re rubbing it in my face that somewhere Summer vacation still exist, and I am no longer privy to it. Grrr, just look at how carefree these brats look in their mesh shorts and athletic socks! It appears that one kid has an i-pod, you don’t think that I’m listening to music right now that lends itself to bouncing in a giant inflatable balloon? It’s Panama, by Van Halen!
Guinness World Records must still authenticate the record, a process that could take months.
Months? What is this, appeals courts? Is it that we have juveniles attempting this, regularly? If that’s the case, personally, I hope there are some real sob stories out there. Maybe an errant toenail severed the bouncy thing in the seventeenth hour. Maybe a twister swept one away.
Oh, and you better believe that I’m annoyed they did it in rotation. Rotation? What are they, training for the Cop-Out Junior Olympics? Somebody should inform these kids about other faux-endurance activities we have in this country, like team marathons. People love these, because they’re part of team and only have to run part of the race. So people who could never run a real marathon decide to do it…drunk.
Assuming everything checks out and they actually get the record, maybe they’ll luck out and get listed in the book next to the guy who holds the record for wearing the most t-shirts at one time.
Is there a chapter in the Guinness book for ‘People Who Set World Records, But Come Off Looking Like Failures’?
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