Sports, Races, and Competitions

1936 Summer Olympics	These German-hosted Olympics and Hitler’s display of ‘Aryan supremacy’ didn’t exactly hold when Jesse Owens showed up
1955 Le Mans disaster	Major crash in motorsports history, killing 83 spectators
Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – 93 Men’s marathon	Possibly the most bizarre marathon to ever happen – you couldn’t make this up
Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake	Annual cheese rolling festival in England
Discontinued sports at the Summer Olympics	A group of pages on discontinued Olympic Sports, including Cannon shooting, Croquet, Kite Flying and Pigeon Racing
Extreme ironing	Pack up the car boys, I know a great place to get these creases out
Great Tea Race of 1866	Race between two ships from China to England
Gravity racer, and Red Bull Soapbox Race	○ Soapbox cars; fun to watch videos of
Idiotarod	○ A shopping cart race in the US; we evolved into an intelligence species and I am all for this nonsense
Jamaica national bobsleigh team	A tropical country goes for a cold-weather sport; we all saw the Disney movie when we were young
Kinetic sculpture race	🐇 A triathlon-type race between human-powered sculptures
Rubber duck race	How do you work out which duck is yours?
Wok racing	○ I love that someone looked at a wok and saw a greater purpose
World Black Pudding Throwing Championships	○ A humourous championship with a humourous origin story
World Pea Shooting Championships	Sorry, I’m busy this weekend, I have something I must do