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Danish twins win two European professional golf tournaments (one each) a week apart in exactly the same fashion.
Identical: Nicolai Højgaard duplicates twin brother’s win

Identical twins, identical results.

Nicolai Højgaard sunk a birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the Italian Open on Sunday, a week after his identical twin brother, Rasmus, won the European Masters in Switzerland by also making a birdie with his final stroke. ...
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FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-282ad77fba507d5217698a2bb36b4cbf
 
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Bog Snorkelling. Marvelous.
By Rud-gr - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5099059
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The former Irish Taoiseach (PM) and current Tánaiste (DepPM) Leo Varadker is a bog snorkeller.

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An Illinois man unexpectedly wins a marathon after the two Kenyan runners who'd run off and left him in third place took a wrong turn.
Illinois man wins marathon after 2 leaders take wrong route

An Illinois man unexpectedly won the Quad Cities Marathon this weekend when the two Kenyan runners who had far outpaced him were disqualified after being diverted off the course by a race volunteer bicyclist.

Tyler Pence crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 15 minutes, 6 seconds to become the first U.S. runner since 2001 to win the race through the Quad Cities along the Mississippi River in Illinois and Iowa. ...

Pence’s win came after Elijah Mwangangi Saolo and Luke Kibet diverted from the course a little more than halfway to the finish line when the bicycle rider leading them mistakenly went straight when he should have turned ...

Race director Joe Moreno confirmed that the bicyclist went the wrong way but said the two runners also should have known not to follow him.

“At that intersection where that incident happened, the course was well-marked,” Moreno said. “The signage is well-displayed. The volunteers are there. And the fourth element is those elite runners have a meeting the day before to get familiar with the course.” ...
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FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/sports-i...-springfield-6d5da8e0a65e16d94a8ee82c5f893bd0
 

Inside the jaw-clenching world of cricket fighting in China​


The window shades are drawn, the air's filled with cigarette smoke and tension. About three dozen people, mostly men, huddle around a table, in silence — all that can be heard is an unmistakable chirp.

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It's a cricket fight.

Fall marks cricket fighting season in China, a sport believed to date back more than a millennium. In recent years, it's gained popularity with new generations. Some of the games go on covertly in small backrooms. Others, such as annual face-offs held in the southern metropolis of Hangzhou or the port city of Tianjin, are splashy, televised affairs.

Big money is involved. The little critters themselves are usually cheap — around $5 to $10 — but the most elite fighters can end up being worth a small fortune in a country where millions of dollars are spent on cricket sales — and cricket care — each year.

Here's how the game works. Two crickets — always males — are weighed to the closest hundredth of a gram and then paired off by weight class like prizefighters. They are placed in a clear plastic ring nearly the size of a dinner plate, with a dividing wall separating the two insects. A referee signals go time, then slides out the ring divider to let the bugs face off.

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The owners poke a special reed in to lightly brush their crickets, which goads them into fighting. The critters lunge and swipe their pincer-like mandibles at each other. A referee closely monitors the tiny combatants, noting the number of attacks and retreats.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1045988512/china-cricket-fighting?t=1635150963800

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:

Inside the jaw-clenching world of cricket fighting in China​


The window shades are drawn, the air's filled with cigarette smoke and tension. About three dozen people, mostly men, huddle around a table, in silence — all that can be heard is an unmistakable chirp.

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It's a cricket fight.

Fall marks cricket fighting season in China, a sport believed to date back more than a millennium. In recent years, it's gained popularity with new generations. Some of the games go on covertly in small backrooms. Others, such as annual face-offs held in the southern metropolis of Hangzhou or the port city of Tianjin, are splashy, televised affairs.

Big money is involved. The little critters themselves are usually cheap — around $5 to $10 — but the most elite fighters can end up being worth a small fortune in a country where millions of dollars are spent on cricket sales — and cricket care — each year.

Here's how the game works. Two crickets — always males — are weighed to the closest hundredth of a gram and then paired off by weight class like prizefighters. They are placed in a clear plastic ring nearly the size of a dinner plate, with a dividing wall separating the two insects. A referee signals go time, then slides out the ring divider to let the bugs face off.

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The owners poke a special reed in to lightly brush their crickets, which goads them into fighting. The critters lunge and swipe their pincer-like mandibles at each other. A referee closely monitors the tiny combatants, noting the number of attacks and retreats.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1045988512/china-cricket-fighting?t=1635150963800

maximus otter
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How about real Cricket Teams fighting? The teams go for each other with bats and stumps. I'll suggest it to Netflix.
 
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In case you've wondered whether the rules cover wildlife making off with your golf ball during a sanctioned tournament event ...
Alligator walks off with golfer's ball at Mississippi course

A golfer on a Mississippi course faced an unusual hazard when an alligator grabbed his ball in its jaws and carried it off to a nearby pond.

Victoria Williams said her husband, Keith Williams, was playing in a tournament at Windance Golf Course in Gulfport when his ball ended up near a pond on the 12th hole. ...

The U.S. Golf Association's rules state such an incident should result in a free drop.

"Rule 16 covers when and how the player may take free relief by playing a ball from a different place, such as when there is interference by an abnormal course condition or a dangerous animal condition," the rules state.
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FULL STORY (With Video): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/1...-alligator-steals-golfers-ball/1171635878596/
 
WTF!

Like millions of others around the world, Nafeesa Attari was glued to her screen as India played Pakistan in their opening match of the T20 World Cup.

The schoolteacher from the northern Indian city of Udaipur watched as Pakistan won the match by 10 wickets in what was a clinical and emphatic win. Days later she was arrested and held in a police cell. Her apparent crime: her WhatsApp status celebrating Pakistan's victory.

She is among several Muslims in India who have been arrested or detained for supporting Pakistan in the recent match - raising fresh concerns about freedom of speech in the world's largest democracy. Observers argue that these arrests are the latest weapon in the governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) agenda to target Muslim minorities, a charge the government strongly refutes.

"Jeeeet gayeeee… We wonnn," Ms Attari wrote, over an image of some of the team's players in her WhatsApp status.
Her post was spotted by one of her students' parents, who sent it to others before it went viral on the messaging service.

Ms Attari was fired from her teaching job, and arrested under a section of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises "assertions prejudicial to national integration".

In an interview with a local TV channel, she appeared visibly distressed as she apologised for causing offence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59130556
 
Amateur golfer hits 11 hole-in-ones in six months

According to the National Hole-in-One Registry, the odds of a tour player hitting a hole-in-one are 3,000-to-1, while for average players they are 12,000-to-1.

Watts hit his first ever ace in June 2021, with a further 10 coming in the next few months.

The British golfer really aced it during an interview with British broadcaster ITV in December when he it a hole-in-one while the cameras were rolling.
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A Siberian marathon run a couple of days ago may be the coldest of all time. Temperatures during the race dropped as low as -63.4 (C).
Siberian marathon might be coldest of all time at minus 63.4 degrees

A marathon in Siberia may have broken a Guinness World Record when runners braved temperatures of 63.4 degrees below zero.

Organizers of the Pole of Cold Marathon in Yakutia, Russia, said the start time for the race was pushed up to the early morning Jan. 21 after weather forecasts indicated the temperature would dip to 76 degrees below zero in the afternoon. ...

The temperature during the race reached a low of 63.4 degrees below zero. Guinness World Records currently lists the world's coldest marathon as 2001's Siberian Ice Marathon, where the temperature was about 38 degrees below zero. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/01/26/Guinness-World-Records-coldest-marathon/1551643235023/

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World’s coldest marathon at blistering minus 53C is complete in Yakutia
FULL STORY (With Photos & Video): https://siberiantimes.com/other/oth...-blistering-minus-53c-is-complete-in-yakutia/
 
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Winter Olympics: Finnish cross-country skier suffers frozen penis in 50km race​

News story

I don't know if that would make you go faster or slower.
 
I suppose this had to happen sooner or later, once they'd run out of new ideas for fight-related sporting events. A bodybuilding context event in Ohio unveiled a new "slap fighting" competition in which male and female contestants slap each other in the face.
Ohio bodybuilding contest debuts Slap Fighting Championship

An Ohio bodybuilding contest founded by Arnold Schwarzenegger debuted an unusual new event: the Slap Fighting Championship.

The Arnold Classic, an annual bodybuilding competition in Columbus, held its first Slap Fighting Championship after an announcement by Schwarzenegger and YouTube star Logan Paul. ...

The contest featured male and female competitors in different weight classes taking turns hitting one another in the face with open hands for slap fight supremacy. ...
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FULL STORY (With Video): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/03/08/Arnold-Classic-Slap-Fighting-Championship/3261646773413/
 
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