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[Ewan]

Posted by grapevine (here)
Bicycle Obstacle Course

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nyj4HYNzOVU

That was impressive!

[onawah]

Starting at 30 minutes into the video, focus on a scandal involving France's football star Mbappé, revealing the ironically funny dystopian paranoia that has overtaken today's China.

Posted by onawah (here)
China's Fifth Plenum Mystery: A Political Shift and the Mbappé Scandal
Lei's Real Talk
454K subscribers
Streamed live10/29/26

" China's Fifth Plenum is over—but the real story may be hidden between the lines. Xi Jinping's signature slogans have vanished, attendance has plunged, and sweeping political purges continue. Is Xi's grip on power weakening?
Meanwhile, French football superstar Kylian Mbappé sparked a bizarre political firestorm over a Mao Zedong meme. Why did the controversy explode on the very day the Fifth Plenum opened? Was it a coincidence—or a convenient distraction?
We examine the unusual political signals, the power struggles inside the CCP, and the mystery behind the Mbappé scandal. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PySP9HqxNZw

Lots more details here:
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ch...140328378.html

[Bill Ryan]

Some light entertainment here. (Sort of! ).

Cricket followers will appreciate this — and probably smile wryly! — while others, who always thought cricket was a gentle, boring game, may be as shocked as the American guy reacting to all these clips.

This video is all about what serious fast bowling can do to batsmen when they fail to avoid a brutal delivery and get hit by a very hard ball going at 90 mph or faster.

The video thumbnail says "no reaction time", and that's correct. It's all instinct and muscle memory, and the batsman has maybe half a second or less to either hit the ball or somehow get the heck out the way.

American Reacts to Cricket’s Most Dangerous Bouncers… This is Terrifying

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jseYtCcqi1Q

And a note for anyone not very familiar with cricket. Batting helmets were only introduced in the late 1970s. In the 100 years before that, when bowling was often just as fast, there was no head protection whatsoever.

The famous West Indian Viv Richards always refused to wear a helmet, and when he retired in 1991 was the last international player never to do so. Below is a classic photo of 'King Viv', one of the greatest cricketers to have ever played. He was entirely fearless, and his like has never been seen again.

[Bluegreen]

World Series champs Milwaukee Brewers living up to their name

https://x.com/BookmarkerLove/status/2116197891962224850

[rgray222]

The video shows an urban downhill mountain bike race descending a steep, narrow street in Manizales, Colombia (1:43 Its more fun to watch on full screen)