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...25th event also saw the speedcubing world championships return to its "home" of Budapest where the Rubik's Cube was invented by academic and architect Erno Rubik in 1974, and where the sport's first world championships were held...
...addition to solving the "classic" 3X3 Rubik's Cube five successive times with a world-class average time of 12.46 seconds, Nakajima also earned 5,000 euros ($7,016) in prize money and now stands at the pinnacle of perhaps the world's most unusual sport...
...Despite the Department’s assertion that it is merely responding to a decline in dedication among JV athletes, two reasons lead us to believe that more mercenary motivations are involved, at least in part. First, though there has certainly been a decline in participation in some JV sports, many are in fact thriving. The JV women’s soccer team, for example, almost always has more players than it can reasonably give playing time to—except in cases when players are pulled out of JV games to fill out Varsity practices. The JV women?...
...track beat that summer, and quickly fell in love with the sport - the relay strategies, the tactics of the 100-meter dash versus the distance races, the oddball field sports - pole vault! Hammer-throw! I got to know Justin Gatlin at those trials, and smiled in disbelief when he won the 100-meter sprint in Athens. Just 22 years old, charismatic, and most importantly, clean. Or so I thought. Two years later, Gatlin was busted for doping, and he is now serving an eight-year ban. And Friday Jones pled guilty to lying to federal agents about...
...forget about track and field. Jones and Gatlin have taken the sport down. Maybe we should have lost faith back in '88, when Ben Johnson got stripped of his medal in Seoul. Think about it - Johnson, Jones, Gatlin - three Olympic champs, convicted cheaters. Compared to track and field, baseball's steroid struggles seem bush league...