American track and field sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson recently set a new world record in the women’s 100m (despite running in a disadvantageous outer lane) at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest with a time of 10.26 seconds, beating the previous world record by 0.02 seconds. As you may recall,
Competing in the 3A division of the World Yo-Yo Contest, this is a video of Hajime Miura’s winning dual yo-yo performance. And what a performance it is! If he’d performed this for a king and queen in medieval times there’s no doubt in my mind they’d kill the court jester
This is a video of a mom filming her son competing in a swim meet and completely losing awareness of where she’s at and falling in the pool. Or maybe she was trying to distract the judges from that bootleg version of the breaststroke he was doing. One kick per
This is a compilation video of young Deccan demonstrating his extreme skill with a hockey stick and ball or puck, making a bunch of ridiculously impressive trick shots. Sadly, Deccan was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DND) at the age of 3, and could be in a wheelchair as young
These are several Instagram videos of Lance Lynn demonstrating his exceptional skill with Freeskates, tiny two-wheeled skateboards, one for each foot. In case you couldn’t tell from the screencaps, he’s not attached to them either (and wearing flip flops in the video on the mini halfpipe!), which allows him to
This is a video of pro skateboarder Tyshawn Jones performing a massive rampless ollie over Universal Music Group A&R Senior VP Steven Victor’s ~$5-million Ferrari Monza SP2. Some more details about the car while I print out a poster-sized screenshot of it and tack it to the ceiling above my
This is a video of first-time competitor Mica of FlyingHighHobbyHorse sharing her experience participating in the 2023 Finnish Hobby Horse Championships. In the event, hobby horse equestrians compete in show jumping, dressage, and western-style riding, with the winner taking home a real pony! Just kidding, I’m not sure what they
Because everybody’s life-long dream is different, this is a video of pro stock car driver Aric Almirola and pro bowler Jason Belmonte setting the world record for fastest hand-thrown strike by bowling out of a race car doing 140MPH around Charlotte Motor Speedway. Damn those pins FLY. Also, did it