Sports
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The World’s Oldest Basketball Court Has Iron Poles In The Middle Of It
Basketball is famously an all-American sport (invented by a Canadian). But thanks to an odd twist of fate and the YMCA, the world’s oldest surviving basketball court is actually in France. Tucked away in a neighbourhood of Paris, the handsome facility has parquet floors and iron pillars running down the middle of it. It looks…
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These Ski Goggles Change Colour To Adapt To Conditions Around You
The weather and lighting conditions on a snow-covered mountain can change in a heartbeat. But instead of carrying around a small collection of swappable tinted goggle lenses to match the conditions, UVEX’s new Snowstrike VT goggles employ a thin LCD in the lens that can instantly switch between clear, red, blue and violet tints.
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No, Nine Won’t Be Showing The NRL Grand Final In HD
The lack of high-definition sports broadcasts on free-to-air television is an ongoing source of frustration for football fans, particularly when the grand final months of September and October roll around. Unsurprisingly, money is the main reason standard definition continues to rule the roost, though there was a glimmer of hope as Nine remained undecided about…
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Swinging The World’s Longest Golf Club Looks Absolutely Ridiculous
I don’t where people come up with the ideas to do these things sober, but if you were ever wondering what the the Guinness World Record for world’s longest golf club was, the answer is 4.4m. Karsten Maas from Denmark used the club to drive the ball about 165m.