Posts in category Sports + Feats

For two days, more than 5,000 people took advantage of the bouncing structure, logging more than 80,000 jumps.

Dressed in layered skirts, sandals, pigtail braids, and bowler hats, the Fighting Cholitas perform in front of hundreds of spectators, tossing each other around with perfectly practiced maneuvers.

Not only can Vasilisa effortlessly complete a slalom course while freestyle dancing, but she can also do it on one leg while skating backward in a single-wheel squat.

To this day, Olympians, judges, dignitaries, members of the committee, and officials still receive their participation medal from the International Olympic Committee.

Organizers have special plans for if the flames go out.

As she embarks on her greatest adventure of all time, let’s pull a few unbelievable facts out of the vault to learn more about the Olympian with a heart of gold, Simone Biles.

Born on May 28, 1888, in present-day Oklahoma, Jim Thorpe was one of the most successful all-around American athletes of the 20th century. King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him “the greatest athlete in the world.”

With more than $92 million in prize money, Williams has shattered the female athletic record.

There’s no shortage of peculiar players in the game of baseball’s hallowed history!

Things weren’t always sunshine and Super Bowl rings for Brady, whose early career took a beeline for the bench.