Note: Check your volume, yelling. This is a video of young Talaya Crawford losing her shoe at the beginning of a foot race, having to stop to put it back on, then catching up with and smoking the competition. Just imagine if she hadn’t lost a shoe — she probably
This is an eye-in-the-sky view of Rich Strike’s incredible come-from-behind to clench Kentucky Derby victory. The video starts with the horse in 17th place, at which point it kicks the tires and lights the fires and blasts through the pack into first. The betting odds for the late-entry longshot were
This a video presumably recorded off of ESPN69 of the 14th annual UK Wife Carrying Championship. Such action! I even witnessed a spill in there (seen above). It looks like the majority of contestants have a similar technique, with the wife’s legs dangling in front of the man’s face, and
This is a video of a young runner demonstrating the worst way to start a race, first by falling on her face, then by falling on her hands, then by taking off like a duck while the woman filming asks if she’s okay. Was that her mom? I like how
This is a compilation video from Russian firefighter Artur Prosport of various ladder climbing races in which participants use a one-story ladder to reach a window, then reuse the ladder to reach the second story window, and once more to reach the third story and enter as quickly as possible.
This is a video of Cassie, a pair of robotic legs (and nothing else) developed by Agility Robotics, successfully running 5K in just over 53 minutes (running at around ~5.7km/h or 3.5MPH) and on a single battery charge. Not bad. For reference, the only way I’m finishing a 5K is
This is a video of Lewis Hamilton making contact with Max Verstappen’s car during the first lap of the British Grand Prix over the weekend and causing Max to crash into a tire barrier right in front of spectators. Lewis went on to win the race while Max (the point
This is the helmet-cam footage of Killian Bron’s winning run of the 2021 Mountain Of Hell downhill mountain bike race held on the Glacier des Deux Alps in the northern French Alps. The race, which Killain also won in 2019, consists of a 25km (15.5-mile) course over snow, ice, pebbles