Beachgoers flocked to the Jersey Shore this weekend, but none enjoyed themselves as much as a group who gathered on the beachfront to catch a wave, some for the first time.
The Life Rolls On Foundation held its second annual “They Will Surf Again” [TWSA] event at Pier Village in Long Branch on June 28, and according to a post-event press release, more than 25 participants and 200 volunteers gathered to make a day of surfing possible for people with spinal cord injuries.
“Injured athletes from around the country gathered together for a day of surfing. Some have not surfed since their injury, some have never surfed, some surf all the time despite their varying mobility,” according to the Life Rolls On website…Â Details
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She has more career wins in major league racing than Danica Patrick. Not only that, she’s leading the points in her specific category and could potentially win the championship this season.
And while there’s no indication that she’s interested in racing in NASCAR, or if anyone in NASCAR wants to lure her to compete in the Sprint Cup series, keep your eye on NHRA Funny Car points leader Ashley Force Hood.
The daughter of 14-time Funny Car champ John Force, Ashley has been tearing up the asphalt this season in only her third full season in the Funny Car ranks. Not only did she win earlier this year at Baytown, Texas, Force has finished in the top-five in every one of the 12 races thus far this season, adding four runner-up showings to her second career win…Â Details
Since the first American cyclist made his way to the European pro circuit in the mid-’70s, enough gaffes, misunderstandings and flashpoints have taken place to keep a U.N. peacekeeping force busy — from Greg LeMond’s spending the Tour de France rest day playing golf, to the conversion of La Taverne Zimmer, the Montmartre bar in which the Tour was hatched at the turn of the century, into a TGI Friday’s. Among the lowlights:
1981
Sizing up the first American ever to ride the Tour de France, legendary French racing director Cyrille Guimard calls Jonathan Boyer un marginal, or weirdo — a reference to Boyer being, among other things, a Seventh-Day Adventist, a vegetarian, and a believer in acupuncture.
1984
After the World Championship road race in Barcelona, Greg LeMond publicly gripes that during the race Italy’s Moreno Argentin had offered to help him win for $10,000.