Why talking about what we’re wearing—or not wearing—is such a touchy subject
People love to talk about Sierra Blair-Coyle. Men, women, me … it’s hard to ignore the platinum blonde professional rock climber with a penchant for pink booty shorts and smiley-face emojis.
Blair-Coyle is a good climber. She’s a two-time junior national champion, a finalist in the Psciobloc Masters Series, and came in tenth at the 2015 USA American Bouldering Series Nationals. So you’d think we’d all be talking about how good she is. Instead, we’re talking about what she’s wearing—and not wearing … More
Forget the Grand Prix this is the Grand SKI of races – with competitors hurtling down a mountain on a SHOVEL.
The 9th Annual Shovel Race Championships took place on Sunday (FEB 8) at Angel Fire Resort in New Mexico, USA.
Competitors sit on the scoop of a standard aluminium snow shovel with the handle pointed downhill and lift their hands and feet as gravity sends them down the course.
Situated at over 8,600ft elevation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, a total of 86 daredevil entrants including men, women and children battle it out to see who completes the course in the fastest time.
Jeff Hamblin was crowned men’s champ romping the course in 15.3 seconds clocking speeds of over 65mph.
Dan Swanson, from Angel Fire Resort, said: “Shovel racing began as a simple contest here in the 1970’s when our lift operators would ride their shovels down the mountain at the end of their shifts.”
This is a short, but very intimate portrait of Alex Zanardi, the former Formula 1 driver and winner of the American Champ Car Series. Alex was already a star, when he had his almost fatal accident at the Lausitzring in Germany. He lost his legs, but not his attitude. Alex Zanardi came back and did the impossible: He won races in the World Touring Car Championship, two gold medals at the Paralympics in London 2012 and just recently added two more hand bike world titles!
It was a unique experience to spend a day with a true hero at his house in Padua, talking about his life and joining him for a training session with his hand bike. His last words in our film describe him best. But see for yourself…
The Swiss arm of HSBC was one of the most private banking institutions in the world until systems engineer Hervé Falciani leaked data related to over 100,000 suspected tax evaders from his employer. Motorsports stars Valentino Rossi, Flavio Briatore, Fernando Alonso and Heikki Kovalainen were on the list of hacked accounts.
According to Bloomberg, HSBC is one of the Swiss banking institutions facing criminal prosecution for allowing clients to deposit cash without revealing their identities. This makes laundering money, hiding ill-begotten cash or evading taxes a lot easier … More