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WeirdZone : sports : the stranges, funniest, and most daringest events from the world of athletics and beyond!

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  • Author: Birmingham, Maria
    Date:
    Copyrighted
    2013
    Summary:

    Looks at some of the stranger sports played around the world, including skyaking, slamball, shovel racing, street luging, and underwater wrestling.

    Contents:
    • Going solo. Zorbing
    • Finger jousting/tow wrestling
    • Pillow fighting
    • Volcano surfing
    • Extreme pogo
    • Joggling
    • Skyaking/ sky surfing
    • Wingsuit flying
    • Chessboxing
    • Tough guy competition
    • Extreme ironing
    • Kite fighting
    • You'll never see this at the Olympics
    • Go team! Unicycle hockey
    • Swamp soccer
    • Royal Shrovetide football
    • Bossaball
    • Slamball
    • Quidditch
    • Human tower building
    • Irish road bowling
    • The wackiest sports stuff around
    • Off to the races. Shovel racing
    • Wok racking
    • Cheese racing
    • 24-hour races
    • Street luging
    • Rubber duck race
    • Henley-on-Todd regatta
    • General wacky races
    • Toilet bowl races
    • Lawn mower racing
    • Extreme sports venues
    • Wet, wild, & weird water sports. Bog snorkeling
    • Underwater golf
    • Underwater bike race
    • Around the world yacht race
    • Riverboarding
    • Pumpkin racing
    • Stone skipping
    • Splashdiving
    • Underwater wrestling
    • Underwater hockey
    • Strange moments in sports
    • Catch a chill. North Pole marathon
    • Downhill ice cross
    • Winter cycling
    • Ice golf
    • Indoor skiing
    • Hangboarding
    • Yukigassen
    • Snow kayaking
    • Ice yachting
    • Speed flying
    • Weird world records.
    Genre:
    Sports and recreation, Juvenile nonfiction
    Subject(s): Sports
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Owlkids Books, Distributed in Canada by University of Toronto Press
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: TD Summer Reading Club 2015 | TD Summer Reading Club 2015