World Anti-Doping Agency President John Fahey announced Tuesday that over 100 aspiring Olympic athletes were banned from London as the result of positive doping tests in the six months prior to the start of the Games. More than 70,000 tests had been conducted in the run-up to London. "Doping athletes should know that their chances of avoiding detection are the smallest they have ever been," Fahey said. The announcement was quickly followed by the news that nine track and field athletes were su... Read More
A civilian laborer who reportedly set fire to a nuclear Navy submarine is facing life imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000 for the $400 million in damage he caused. Casey James Fury, 24, started the first fire on May 23rd to get out of work early after he became anxious, he told investigators. Fury set a second fire to the dry dock cradle on which the submarine rests on June 16 after he became anxious over the relationship between his ex-girlfriend and the man she started seeing. The Navy... Read More
For the second consecutive day, Felix Baumgartner has called off the 17-mile test jump that is supposed to prepare him for a record-breaking 23-mile skydive planned for August. Officials for Baumgartner's Red Bull Stratos project said that high winds prevented Monday's and then Tuesday's scheduled launch of the balloon that will take the skydiver 90,000 feet above earth. The jump will test the limits of a new pressurized suit that could allow astronauts to re-enter the earth's atmosphere if t... Read More
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The "goat man," spotted approaching a herd of wild goats in a homemade goat costume, is a hunter from California, Utah wildlife officials said Monday. Phil Douglass of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources told the Standard-Examiner that the man, a 57-year-old from California, called the agency to tell them that he was testing the suit in preparation for a bowhunting trip next year. Authorities had expressed concern that the man might become a target himself, noting that they were about to i... Read More
Mickey Rourke is faster than Usain Bolt, according to Mickey Rourke. The 59-year-old actor claims he beat the World’s Fastest Man in a 30-meter race outside a Central London nightclub earlier this year. A few qualifiers: it was 4 a.m., Rourke had been drinking, and Bolt gave him a four-step head start. "It was just that time of the night, you know, when anything can happen,” said the star of 1986's Nine 1/2 Weeks. “So I went up to him and I said, 'Come on, you are the world's... Read More
