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...sounds a lot like Formula One, but there's a difference: Nelson is all of 8 years old. It isn't the throaty whine of motor sport's biggest competition you hear as he and the other drivers power around this neat, twisting circuit in rural Lincolnshire, but the higher-pitched buzz of karting...
...karting a must for youngsters keen to copy their heroes. After Schumacher picked up the first of his seven Formula One titles in 1994, Germany's domestic karting championship took off, says Vincent Caro, executive secretary of the International Karting Commission, which is part of the FIA, world motor sport's governing body. Successive world championships for Alonso have inspired a karting boom in Spain, Caro says, and now traffic is building on the U.K.'s kart tracks too. Hamilton's record-breaking season - he's won three of the 14 races so far, becoming the youngest-ever driver...
...Latest timepiece trend to entice luxury watchmakers and their avid clientele is sport watches. One of this year's stylish, not-to-be-missed introductions is the RPM collection from Canadian jeweler Birks. Available this fall at Birks in Canada and at Mayors, the company's sister chain in the U.S., the Swiss-made line?Birks' first new sport collection in five years?boasts four different adventure-ready versions, all for less than $1,300 each...
...life has been predicated on not getting what I hoped I would get," Wang confesses. She spent the first third of her life training to be an Olympic figure skater. Every waking hour was devoted to the sport; she studied classical ballet at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. When she didn't make the Olympic team, "I had to learn a big life lesson," she says, "which is that when you are so obsessed by something and you can no longer do it, you dust yourself off and keep going...
That’s usually not the case in football—or in any sport, for that matter—but following the infamous offseason of 2006, it was the best thing that could have happened to the Crimson. And “it” came in the form of senior defensive end Brad Bagdis...