Emiel Pauwels of Belgium and Ilmari Koppinen of Finland, who are both in their 90s, recently competed against each other in the 100-meter race at the 2013 Veteran Games in San Sebastian, Spain. The two athlete grandfathers wowed the crowd for their showing their stamina, as shown in the video below. Emiel Pauwels (in black [...]
A so-called Iditarod race dog dies this Friday, March 15, 2013, after it was earlier dropped from the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an annual long-distance sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. Race officials said that Dorado, a 5-year old male dog, came from the team of Fairbanks musher Paige Drobny. A scene [...]
At least 28 NASCAR fans were injured during the Daytona Nationwide race on Saturday, February 23, 2013. This is after one of the speeding race cars flew to the fence, as shown in the video below, where 12 cars were involved. Tony Stewart won the race, and the injured spectators were brought to different hospitals. [...]
Lewis Hamilton crashes his car during his first testing for the Mercedes Formula One (F1) on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, as shown in the video below. Fortunately, Hamilton, 28, who won the Formula One in 2008, was not hurt. However, further testing for the event was temporarily canceled. Lewis Hamilton, being checked by marshals after [...]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a big wreck at the Daytona International Speedway on Friday, January 11, 2013, as shown in the video below. This led to a 12-car accident and eventually caused the three-day testing of NASCAR‘s redesigned cars to be stopped. Fortunately, no one has hurt; although the damage was expensive. Marcos Ambrose’s Stanley [...]
Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes won the 2012 U.S. Grand Prix over Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing-Renault on Sunday, November 18, 2012 at the Circuit of The Americas. Ferrari‘s Fernando Alonso settled for third place, according to an F1.com report. Lewis Hamilton wins 2012 US Grand Prix Image Credit: REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Hamilton‘s victory at the [...]
Olympic 2012 amputee runner Oscar Pistorius lost his chance to run for the 4x400m relay race on Thursday, August 9, 2012, after this teammate fell. His team was not able to finish the race and eventually lost but immediately made an appeal, which was later approved within the day. Oscar Pistorius disappointed, after his Team [...]
Updated: August 9, 2012 10:15 p.m. Read Oscar Pistorius Olympics 2012 relay chance denied after teammate fell, still to run after appeal won Oscar Pistorius of South Africa, who makes history as the first amputee to compete on Olympic track, won the second place in the opening round of the London Olympics 400-meter race on [...]
Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso won the 2012 F1 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, Germany on Sunday, July 22, 2012. The F1 German Grand Prix win by Alonso was his 30th career victory. Alonso captured the 67-lap race day in Germany on a two-pit stop strategy. He started the race at pole position and ends the [...]
F1 2012 German Grand Prix Top Qualifiers Image Credit: Formula 1 Ferrari driver, Fernando Alonso topped the qualifying round of the 2012 F1 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim on Saturday, July 21, 2012, according to Formula 1 website. Alonso took pole position when he lapped his Ferrari car in 1m 40.904s and 1m 40.621s in [...]