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Poo Canoe

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Poo Canoe

Two Welshmen are set to paddle across the English Channel in a canoe made from sheep dung. Lez Paylor and Lawrence Toms run Creative Paper Wales in Snowdonia, where they produce paper made from sheep excrement. Animal poo paper is becoming more and more common as an environmentally safe way of producing paper, it’s actually [...]

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Chestnut Eats His Way To Victory Again

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Chestnut Eats His Way To Victory Again

Competitive eating champion Joey Chestnut, who munched his way through a record breaking 68 hot dogs at this months Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island has this weekend won the rib eating championships in Oregon. Fans gathered at Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City on Sunday to watch Chestnut [...]

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The 2009 Chap Olympiad

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Saturday saw the sixth annual Chap Olympiad being held at the Bedford Square Gardens in London. The event is organised by The Chap magazine and is growing in popularity each year as more and more chaps from around England gather to compete in the games. This years event was sold out well in advance, next [...]

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Joey Chestnut retains the Mustard Belt

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As crowds of supporters cheered him on Joey Chestnut held his title of World Champion Hot Dog Eater at yesterday’s Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island. Chestnut beat off stiff competition from his arch rival Takeru Kobayashi of Japan. In a spectacular contest Kobayashi managed to beat the former world [...]

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Mini-Luchadores murdered

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Mini-Luchadores murdered

Two midget Mexican wrestlers have been found dead in their hotel room, the apparent victims of a robbery and double homicide. La Parkita and Espectrito II, real names Alberto Perez Jimenez and Alejandro Perez Jimenez were brothers and ranked two of the best mini-wrestlers in all of Lucha Libre. The pair of diddy gladiators are [...]

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Naked pair plan to row across the Atlantic Ocean

27 year old Rich Hume and his friend 30 year old Tom Barnes are currently preparing to take part in The Atlantic Rowing Race from the Canary Islands to Antigua a distance of a staggering 2,800 miles in a little rowing boat. The crossing is likely to take around two months, most of this time [...]

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Jim Reeves eats his way to hot dog final

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Jim Reeves eats his way to hot dog final

Buffalo Jim Reeves has earned a place in the Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island by chomping his way through 22 wieners in under ten minutes at the Hot Dog Eating Contest held in Atlanta, GA yesterday. Reeves from Boston, NY, who’s speciality is actually chicken wings will now face [...]

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Black Widow wins hot dog eating contest

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Black Widow wins hot dog eating contest

Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas beat 15 other contestants to be crowned Virginia Hot Dog Eating Champion today. Sonya gobbled 36 wieners in under 10 minutes to claim the title for the third consecutive year. The Korean born sausage guzzler earned her nickname by defeating men almost twice her size in eating competitions. The winning [...]

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National Dwarf Games 2009

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The 16th Annual National Dwarf Games were held in Birmingham over the weekend, and the games were opened by Olympic hero Ellie Simmonds. 14 year old Ellie, who is originally from Walsall became a national hero last year when she won two gold medals at the Beijing Paralympics, the BBC named her Young Sports Personality [...]

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Naked rock climbing

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Naked rock climbing

A new adventure sport that’s set to take the UK by storm is the increasingly popular naked rock climbing. Nudist sport is nothing new, nude hiking, naked biking, nude wrestling and even nude bowls have been popular pastimes with naturists for some time now. But naked rock climbing is said by it’s participants to be [...]

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