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Marvel as one dozen looping Japanese school kids set new jump-rope world record by a team
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Marvel as one dozen looping Japanese school kids set new jump-rope world record by a team

Mark Peters 2017-09-20T18:04:05+00:00 July 8th, 2017|

For years, Japan has been known as a global leader in robotics, but increasingly it is getting recognition for a considerably less high-tech endeavor [...]

Top Ten Fan Cards — July 8, 2017
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Top Ten Fan Cards — July 8, 2017

Mark Peters 2017-07-08T20:12:06+00:00 July 2nd, 2017|

This week's Top Ten Fan Cards chart sees a hockey card holding down the top spot. The card tally by sport has baseball with [...]

Parkour passport: Freerunning with Jason Paul from Frankfurt, Germany to Tokyo, Japan
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Parkour passport: Freerunning with Jason Paul from Frankfurt, Germany to Tokyo, Japan

Mark Peters 2017-07-13T09:45:30+00:00 July 1st, 2017|

Jason Paul's love affair with freerunning began in 2005 when his best friend introduced him to the sport via a parkour documentary. From that [...]

Rising Stars: India’s Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen shine on world badminton stage
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Rising Stars: India’s Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen shine on world badminton stage

Mark Peters 2017-06-25T08:13:00+00:00 June 25th, 2017|

The game of badminton is thought to have originally developed among expatriate officers in British India, where it became a popular form of recreation [...]

Breaking jump rope world records can be a real pain in the butt
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Breaking jump rope world records can be a real pain in the butt

Mark Peters 2017-05-14T14:42:43+00:00 May 14th, 2017|

Guinness World Records' weekly Meet the Record Breakers series travelled to Wako in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan to watch Sadatoshi Watanabe attempt three [...]