This is a video of Swedish track and fielder Jesper Hellström competing in the 2022 European Championship finals and things going sideways (namely, him) during his jump. Hey, it happens. If I had a dollar for every time things didn’t go the way I’d planned, I’d have a dollar for

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,

This is a video from the Tokay Stakes 2023 in Nagoya, Japan of Number 5 horse Vanyar losing its jockey right at the starting gate, running the whole race by itself, and winning. Unfortunately for Vanyar, horses that finish jockeyless are disqualified, so 2nd place (normally the first loser) took

Because exercise is important, this is a video of TikTok user texast_85’s domesticated pet squirrel Daisy running along the top of a ceiling fan blades like a hamster wheel. Such finesse. Squirrels are so good with their feet, they hardly ever miss a step. They are not so good with

This is a video that’s been mirrored for some reason (I’m great at reading credit card numbers upside-down and backwards) of a runner willing to go the extra mile (or meter), by Supermanning across the finish line, beating out an opponent who thought he had the race in the bag.

Currently an already funded Kickstarter campaign, Moonwalkers are $1,100+ motorized shoes that can increase a person’s walking speed up to 250%, from around 2.5MPH to 6 or 7MPH. Each strap-on shoe has eight wheels (so there’s no need to balance), which provide an extra glide after each step. Some more

This is a video of Cassie, a pair of robotic legs inspired by those of an ostrich, setting the world record for fastest 100m run by a two-legged robot. Cassie finishes with a time of 24.73-seconds. For reference, the current world record for a human is Usain Bolt’s 9.58 seconds

This is a video of marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge’s water bottle guy Claus-Henning Schulke doing everything he can to help secure Eliud’s world record 2:01:39 victory at the recent Berlin Marathon. Everything he can being giving Eliud water when he needs it, and celebrating each handoff like he just won