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Uncommon Snips - Not IPL or Paralympics Edition

"hang hoof, amigo" via reuters.com

"hang hoof, amigo" via reuters.com

I'm having trouble keeping up with the IPL T20 tournament. How are my Chargers doing? Someone come by and school me. 

The Paralympics are still going on in Vancouver, but I've turned a blind eye decided I'm not the guy to be covering that, but I will tell you that the U.S. Paralympic curling team is doing well, only they got beat by the Swedes today

In this edition: How blind people ski, an old article about the Jamaican musher from this year's Iditarod, a Greatest Moments slideshow from slate.com where most of the sports are uncommon, and a Peruvian man taught an Alpaca to surf. 

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Japan's skiing officials have been read the riot act after one of their snowboarders wore his Vancouver Olympic uniform in "hip hop" style last month.

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The US women's 4x400m relay team will be stripped of their gold medal from the 2004 Athens Olympics after the suspension of Crystal Cox for doping, world athletics governing body IAAF confirmed.

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Lance Mackey Wins 2010 Iditarod

Lance Mackey, the world's fastest dog-sledding pot smoker throat cancer survivor, won his 4th consecutive Iditarod with a total time of 8 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 9 seconds; just a shade under 9 whole days. Just a dude and his dogs for nine whole days. Gosh, when I say it like that, Snow Dogs doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

The next closest guy, Hans Gatt, finished roughly an hour after Mackey, and the third place finisher, Jeff King, finished more than an hour after that. After Mackey finished, I would've gone inside to get warm. 

Listen to Iditablog's Live 2010 Finish podcast to hear it as it happened. Find it here.

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Amazing Race: Teams lethargically race through World War I Battlefield

CBS Amazing Race Recap

So the episode starts with the Loud Mouth Asian bragging about how he may have an injured knee but he can still beat the rest of the teams.  The camera zooms out and all the other teams are sitting beside him on a bus.  Most teams roll their eyes, but the Detectives seem to take this boasting as an insult.

“These teams around here, they’re not going to hinder me at all. I’ve been running with one leg. Imagine when this improves.”

The teams get off the bus somewhere in France and get a clue to find a bakery and order a fresh baguette. They all make their way to a small town bakery in a fancy European luxury car.  The teams mosey into the bakery, taking their sweet ass time.

The clue is inside the baguette,  Just about half the teams don't realize that they have to break the baguette in half to find it.  These teams really aren't bright, when compared with Amazing Race teams of yesteryear.

The detectives reach their challenge first.  They have to dress in U.S. Dough Boy uniforms and reenact a World War I scenario.  They have to choose to either crawl beneath 100 meters of barbed wire or decipher Morse Code. 

This is one of the coolest challenges in Amazing Race history.  In period uniforms they crawl between the German and French lines underneath the barbed wire as biplanes dive bomb and strafe them.  The sounds, the mud and equipment is authentic, if only the bullets were real, then maybe these teams would find a sense of urgency.

You've never seen a bunch of teams move more slowly.  The Fat Detective can't catch his breath and need to rest while crawling. They keep making references to World War II, even though it has been thoroughly explained to them that this is a World War I reenactment.  Not the brightest guys:

“You see the planes. You see the bombs exploding, just the noise. It’s a lot like what we do as detectives.”

Um?  Do they really believe that detectives fought in trenches while being bombed by planes?

The Lesbian's want no part of this challenge.  "I didn't sign up for this!"  What exactly did they think they signed up for? Wine tasting?  The angry Lesbian, (no the other angry Lesbian) continues saying she wished they had done the Morse Code challenge because crawling is for dumb people.  I'd agree since everybody chose to crawl and these teams certainly are dumb.

The Models approached in their car they saw the plane and he didn't know what it was.  I'll have to rewatch the scene but he said something like look at the "flying thing".

In any case, the Detectives finish the crawling challenge and get a choice to U-Turn one of the teams.  Of course they make the dumbest decision.  They choose to U-Turn the Loud Mouth Asian, the guy they could easily beat because he has an injured knee.  Not so smart.

As I imagined deciphering the Morse Code seemed pretty difficult.  It'd be nice if they had the Morse Code online and let viewers try that challenge themselves instead of revealing the answer.

The rest of the teams walked to a farm house where they changed in turn of the century bicycling gear and rode a Tour de France reenactment .  The Cowboys ran past the Gay Brothers and they discussed whether they should let teams pass them or not.  Seriously these are the laziest racers of all time.

The remaining teams slowly ride the four miles to the pit stop.  The Asian couple is left behind in the trenches where they eventually give up trying to decipher the Morse Code and are past by the dumbest of all teams.

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Major League Eating has added two more contests to it's active month of May in the disciplines of Gyros and Curly Fries.

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I tried to get Rupert over, too. I was like, 'Are you going to see the light here?' I almost felt bad for him and called him out on it. I said, 'Do you know the way you're going to be portrayed, or do you not get it? Do you not realize that you're spending the game just being led around by Amanda? Is that okay for your legacy?' He was just adamant about sticking with that group in spite of [James's] injury.

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Let’s call this one THE DUMBEST DECISION YET

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