All over the world, the humble little dinghy boat is the safe and simple introduction to boating for millions of people. Not in the town of Renmark, on the banks of South Australia’s Murray River, however. There, in the otherwise sleepy town of just 8,000 souls, they like to strap souped-up outboard engines to their little dinghies and then race them at speeds of up to 80kph in a race that since 1981 has grown a deserved reputation as one of the fastest and wildest events on water, the Riverland Dinghy Derby.
Snowboarding fans who tuned into the Winter X Games last month in Aspen, Colorado, may have been perplexed to find the event was lacking one of the biggest names in the sport: Shaun White.
Despite the fact that White announced his plans to return to this year’s Winter X Games and had just finished taking gold in the 2015 Dew Tour superpipe, ESPN made the somewhat curious choice not to invite White to the X Games.
Now, it has been revealed that decision was … More