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Tokyo School Break Guinness Record For Tied-leg Race
An elementary school in Tokyo named Ushigomenakano in the Shinjuku-ku district has broken the Guinness world record for the most amount of people participating in a single tied-leg race! The 50 meter walk was completed by 117 people, or 118 legs which included students, parents and teachers of the school.
The planned event was done to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the school’s founding. The previous record was held at 77 people which was set in England on September last year.
Source:
mainichi
Picture courtesy of flickr
Sampras Beats Federer in Macau
Third time the charm, Pistol Pete has defeated Federer on their third exhibition match in Macau. The Clash of Times battle ended with a score of 7-6 (8-6) 6-4. Federer had won the two previous games at 6-4 6-3 in Seoul and 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-5) in Kuala Lumpur, but that didn’t stop Pete from playing his game.
The last match at the gambling city of Macau was played at the Venetian Resort, the world’s largest casino! You can learn about The Venetian Macau here.
Roger Federer the world no. 1 vsing Pete Sampras, his predecesor in an exhibition match was already a dream come true for any Tennis enthusiast, and finishing it in such style has just made the dream a whole lot better!
Here’s a video on the interview after the Macau match:
Source:
BBC Sport
Picture from ESPN
Thailand’s Soccer Elephants
Elephants has been an important part of Thailand’s culture for centuries. In Thailand’s Surin province, an annual festival to celebrate their elephants. The festival has many events with elephants parading, playing soccer, showing their dart skills and also painting!
Surin province’s elephant handlers, or ‘mahouts’, have been known for centuries for their expertise in rounding up the animals to pull logs from the country’s lucrative forests. But they were forced to turn to tourism for business and train their elephants to do tricks when the country banned logging in 1989. - ABC
The event will host more than 300 elephants and has become a main force in driving Thailand’s tourism industry!
Here’s a video showing what happened at this year’s festival:
They definitely need a soccer league for these elephants, i’ll definitely pay to watch them play!
Source:
ABC
Formula One night race in Singapore
On a small tropical island of Singapore, things are about to get a lot hotter and faster! The FIA has approved Singapore to host their first ever Formula One race next year, on 28th of September. With such a exciting event taking place, it is expected that tourism will with bring in an approximate revenue of $100 million to the already very popular tourism island!
Being Singapore, they aims to host this spectacular race at night, a first ever in Formula One History! That is, if the floodlight trials are approved by the safety requirement of the FIA, FOA and Formula One teams. It will also be Asia’s first ever street race!
The race will span about five kilometres, with 14 left-hand turns and 10 right-hand turns, said Mr Iswaran, meaning there will be several thrilling straights and tight turns for dramatic action. The Land Transport Authority will be managing modifications to some existing infrastructure such as road kerbs and traffic islands. It will also construct a new 1.2-kilometre road along the pit building. - Channelnewsasia
Showing Malaysia that they can host their own Formula One race too, being the first ever night race it will certainly be a race not to be missed! I’ll be sure to watch Singapore’s debut F1 race next year!
You can watch Mark Webber, testing out the soon-to-be race track below:
Source:
Channel NewsAsia
NBA goes to China
NBA is planning to begin an unprecedented expansion into the Chinese market! In a country with a population of 1.3 billion and which 300 million play basketball (the population of USA), it’s just too good of an opportunity for NBA.
“We believe the potential of a market with four times the population of the United States ultimately must be at least what the United States is,” said Adam Silver, the NBA’s deputy commissioner, who describes China’s growth potential as “exponential.” Thenewstribune.com