Long Way Home: World’s longest bicycle stretches nearly half a football field in length
What has as many as 40 legs, two wheels and is over 130 feet long? It may sound like a riddle with which a […]
British biscuit dipper Simon Berry snatches bungee world record from American donut dunker
Dipping a biscuit in a cup of tea isn’t always a cup of tea — at least not for Simon Berry. Suspended from a […]
Air Miles Galore: Miles Daisher sets world record with 63 BASE jumps in 24 hours
Most people will never go sky diving over the course of their lifetime, let alone attempt a BASE jump. Miles Daisher, on the other […]
Little Mermaids: Veronika Kravtcova bests Marina Kazankova for longest underwater swim record
In Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid”, the titular heroine longs to become human after rescuing a drowning prince. Russia’s Veronika Kravtcova […]
Hopping Humans: Is it possible to execute a box jump in excess of one’s height?
Until the advent of CrossFit, the standing box jump was not really a metric by which one gauged his or her prowess in the […]
Treadmill Challenge: Chicago Marathon expo visitors try to keep pace with Eliud Kipchoge
How long could you hang with marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge? Attendees of the Chicago Marathon expo got the chance to find out—with some hilarious […]
Watch all 26 consecutive reps from Maksim Trukhonovets’ muscle-up world record
If muscle ups are to pull ups as quantum physics is to physics, then Maksim Trukhonovets is the Albert Einstein of the strenuous exercise […]
Look out below! World’s highest basketball shot taken from atop 660-foot African waterfall
A regulation basketball rim stands 10-feet above the court. Now, imagine making a shot from 66 times that height, while contending with swirling air […]
Max Stöckl rockets to world record for fastest MTB downhill speed at 167.6 kph (104.1 mph)
Austrian Markus “Max” Stöckl likes nothing better than to go down a slope as fast as possible and has been setting speed downhill mountain-bike […]
Shoes? Andrew Snope don’t need no stinkin’ shoes — he runs barefoot 137 miles in 24 hours
Nike and Reebok’s worst nightmare may be the appendages attached at birth to legs everywhere, otherwise known as feet. As barefoot running grows in […]
Speedo ad features competitive 95-year-old swimmer Jurgen Schmidt
Jurgen Schmidt, the star of Speedo ad from two years ago, is a competitive swimmer from Huntington Beach, California, who logs an impressive 2,000 […]
World record fastest badminton smashes with Tan Boon Heong and Mads Pieler Kolding
In the realm of racquet sports (badminton, fives, pelota mixteca, pickleball, racquetball, tennis, squash, table tennis, etc) none produces faster shots than badminton. While […]