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The World’s Longest Horse Race Is Going on Right Now in Mongolia
With wild horses, broken bones and treacherous terrain, this isn’t a steeplechase
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Barcelona’s Turning Its Old Olympic Stadium Into a Virtual Reality Themepark
At Barcelona’s Olympic Stadium, you can race a virtual Olympian
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This Hiker Is Trying to Make It from Mexico to Canada in Just 59 Days
Hikers and runners are trying to cover the country’s longest, most iconic trails, faster than anyone ever has before
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Yet other researchers think that different factors, such as the quality and timing of practice, matter most
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Penalty cards are a surprisingly recent creation that were, perhaps unsurprisingly, inspired by traffic lights
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5 Diseases You Can Get From Being Bitten—By A Human
As Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suárez demonstrated yesterday, sometimes people bite others. Here are five diseases you can get from human chomps.
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Ball-Tracking Tech for (American) Football
The World Cup has its own system. But new technology could help spot the pigskin through a 10-lineman pileup on the gridiron.
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Other teams, however, are all in favor of pre-game sex
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RoboCup: Building a Team of Robots That Will Beat The World Cup Champions
By 2050, robotic experts at the annual world robotic’s championship hope to create a team of robots that can best the winning World Cup team
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When Did We Start Calling ‘Football’ ‘Soccer’?
“Soccer” isn’t an Americanism at all—it’s a British word
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Deadly Flooding Hits Brazil Two Days Before World Cup Begins
Flooding in southeastern Brazil has killed at least nine
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Statistics Say That Brazil Will Probably Win the World Cup
Analyzing players’ transfer values to calculate a team’s overall market value, however, predicts that Spain will win
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Will Brazil’s World Cup Stadium in the Middle of the Amazon Pay Off?
The city of Manaus hopes that a new soccer stadium, built for the World Cup, will become a post-tournament boon to the economy
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Six Hikers Are Missing in Mt. Rainier’s Worst Climbing Accident Since 1981
The climbers are still missing, but authorities suspect they were buried by an avalanche
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The World Championships in Medieval Combat
Steps from a 15th century Spanish castle, combatants took to arms
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For the First Time in Nearly 30 Years an American Won the Boston Marathon
Meb Keflezighi’s win at the Boston Marathon is first American victory since Lisa Widenbach’s in 1985
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The Wheelie Was Invented in 1890
A stunt bicyclist named Daniel Canary claims to be the first person to master the trick
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An Avalanche on Mount Everest Made This the Deadliest Day in the Mountain’s History
With at least 12 dead, today is worse than the day in 1996 when eight people were killed in a storm
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Almost 2 Million People Ran a U.S. Half Marathon Last Year—And Most of Them Were Women
Fitness trendsters, take note: it’s about time you go run 13.1 miles
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Combat Juggling Is Your New Favorite Sport, Now That You Know It Exists
The premise of combat juggling is pretty simple: juggle three items, and try to get your opponent to drop his three
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