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...Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning.' NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO, Russian tennis star, criticizing the lack of off-court entertainment at Britain's storied tennis competition in an interview with Russia's Sovietsky Sport newspaper
...Much the way Tiger Woods did with golf, Kobayashi revolutionized his sport - yes, he insists, competitive eating is a sport - with his strenuous training regimen. Yet the day before he needed to eat at least 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes to have a chance of winning the Super Bowl of eating, the Japanese star with a Hoover for a mouth couldn't open his jaw wide enough to accommodate...
...without a coach for the first time in team history. Miller arrived there a year before the team began competition in 1998, recruiting 17 freshman to come to a school already well-renowned for its men’s lacrosse success but with no experience in the sport of women’s lacrosse...
...Kohler outing was put together by Trek Travel trektravel.com) which arranges cycling events around the world and is benefiting from the graying of the sport; 85% of its clients are ages 45 to 60. "There's been a huge upswing in our group-travel business," says sales manager Michael Meholic...
While plenty of Trek Travel's trips are for business groups, the majority are still for folks taking up the sport as a means of maintaining or establishing social groups and staying connected with kids and grandkids. Among the top trends in cycling-related travel are programs that include children, says Cari Gray, a spokeswoman for Butterfield & Robinson butterfield.com) which arranges cycling trips around the world. Gray says clients value intimacy with the countryside, which you can't get on a tour bus, as well as the personal time they get with loved ones...