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Coming from behind in two races to win, Team NZ Skipper Peter Burling has the boat to beat.
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The International Olympic Committee announced on Monday that breakdancing will be an official event at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. It made its Olympic debut at the 2018 Summer Youth Games in Buenos Aires. The IOC has confirmed it will be staged at a prestigious downtown venue, joining sport
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“Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Alice in Wonderland Photo supplied. If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it so that others can discover The BFD
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Cybathlon 2020 was a recent cyborg Olympics in which people with physical disabilities competed using exoskeletons, bionic limbs, and other technology. In one race, competitors with quadriplegia wore scalp sensors that detected their brain waves and allowed them to steer vehicles on the screen. From IEEE Spectrum: Pilots controlled the
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Gerry The Real McCoy Kid McCoy was born as Norman Selby in Indiana in 1867 (he later took the name Charles McCoy). By the end of the 19th Century, Kid McCoy was one of the most renowned boxers in the world. Just five foot eleven and one hundred and sixty
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Argentina soccer legend Diego Maradona, who has died aged 60, succumbed to heart failure, a source from the Argentinian Justice Ministry present at the time of his autopsy told CNN en Español on Wednesday. Read the full article here. Comment on it on The BFD.
“Harden up” You Big Sook
Keith Quinn has got himself into hot water recently for having the audacity to tell kiwi blokes to harden up. Harden up! You can’t say that in 2020. Sam Cane is also in hot water for having the absolute hide to tell kiwis they don’t understand the game.
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Clocking in at 16 hours; 46 minutes; nine seconds (just 14 minutes shy of the 17-hour cutoff time), triathlete Chris Nikic didn’t finish with the fastest time when he recently completed his first Iron Man race—but he did set a new world record. This past Saturday, after swimming