Showing posts with the label Sports

Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football

Feb 11, 2016

Every year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, chaotic scenes erupt in the streets and streams of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England, as a mo...

Hell’s Revenge and The Lion's Back

May 12, 2015

Located in the heart of the Colorado Plateau, in Utah, in the western United States, between scenic red rock cliffs of Arches National Park ...

Hydrospeeding on The Aletsch Glacier

Dec 18, 2014

Hydrospeeding or riverboarding is a form of extreme sports where participants lie prone on rigid foam boards and ride the rapids. Riverboard...

Floating Golf Course at Coeur d'Alene Resort

Nov 17, 2013

The Coeur d'Alene Resort is a luxury resort hotel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, U.S. Located on the north shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene, th...

The Maasai Cricket Warriors

Sep 24, 2013

Dressed in flowing red skirts and draped in colorful bead necklaces but otherwise bare bodied, the warriors from the legendary Kenyan tribe ...

The Bizarre Sport of Goose Pulling

Feb 16, 2013

Goose pulling is an old sport originally played in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, England and North America from the 17th to the 19th ce...

Brambles Bank Cricket Match: Cricket on The Beach

Sep 25, 2012

The Brambles sandbank in central Solent, midway between Southampton and the Isle of Wight, is a low-tide sandbank that appears only once eac...

Excalibur: The World's Tallest Climbing Wall

Jan 30, 2012

Towering over 121 feet (37 meters) in the air, the Excalibur at the Klimcentrum Bjoeks (Bjoeks Climb Center) in the town of Groningen, The N...

Maramadi: Bull Surfing in Kerala, India

Jan 30, 2012

At the annual Maramadi festival during the post harvest season in the villages of Kerala in southern India, a peculiar bull race takes place...

Closing Ceremony of 14th FINA World Championships

Aug 1, 2011

The 14th FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships came to a close in Shanghai, China, on July 31, 2011. FINA World Aquatics ...

Chinese Sports School: Training or Torture?

Jul 21, 2011

“Sport is a serious business at the Shichahai School, which is one of more than 300 elite, and controversial, government-funded academies de...

Chopper Dash–Twenty First Century’s Bike Race in 1970’s Attire

Jul 14, 2011

More than 1,500 people lined the streets yesterday at Colne in Lancashire to inaugurate the eight annual Colne Grand Prix. As an inaugural e...

Homemade Flying Machines Airshow at Red Bull Flugtag, Tel Aviv, 2011

Jun 8, 2011

Red Bull Flugtag (German for ‘airshow’) is a fun event organized by Red Bull in which competitors attempt to fly homemade human-powered flyi...

Largest Game of Dodge-ball Held in Edmonton, Canada

Feb 5, 2011

A team of exactly 2,012 members consisting of staff and students of University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, took to an indoor field at the ...

Spectacular Opening Ceremony of Asian Games 2010 in China

Nov 13, 2010

The largest-ever Asian Games got under way on Friday night with a spectacular opening ceremony. Directed by Chen Weiya, who was the assistan...

Barbie Foot: Soccer Table for Females

Oct 26, 2010

French designer Chloe Ruchon , with her creation Barbie Foot, gave the manly game of football a decidedly feminine touch. She replaced the f...

Tennis Players Before The Serve

Sep 14, 2010

Photographer Benjamin Norman photographed various tennis players' serves during the anticipatory moments between the toss of the ball a...

Burton-on-the-Water River Football Match

Sep 1, 2010

Every year, during this time, the usually peacefully trickling River Windrush is invaded by two boisterous teams of local players, battling ...

Brilliant Underwater Shots from the European Championships

Aug 19, 2010

Photographer Francois Xavier Marit used an underwater camera to capture the European Swimming Championships in a unique way this summer in B...

Tour de France 2010 in Pictures

Aug 10, 2010

The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in in France that covers more than 3,600 kilometers (2,200 mi) and lasts three weeks. The ...