In an eventful day at the Tour de France, Andre Greipel won the sprint into Rouen after a late-race crash took out a number of race favorites, including Mark Cavendish and American sprinter Tyler Farrar. Immediately following the stage, Twitter was abuzz with concerns that Cavendish would be forced to abandon the Tour and miss out on the London Olympics. However, Cavendish recovered to start Thursday’s stage. His girlfriend, Peta Todd, blamed Team Sky's focus on winning the Tour with Bra... Read More
Wall Street Journal extreme-sports correspondent and freelance writer Michael Ybarra died in a climbing accident this weekend in California's Eastern Sierra. Ybarra, 45, struck out alone on Saturday morning to climb the Sawtooth Ridge Traverse in Mono County, outside of Yosemite National Park. When he didn't return by Sunday evening as planned, Ybarra's friend and fellow climber Alex Few called local search and rescue. After three days of searching on foot and by helicopter, teams found his bo... Read More
The South Africa Olympic Committee announced Wednesday that double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius will represent South Africa in the 400-meter race in London despite failing to qualify. He is slated to be the first track-and-field amputee to compete in the Olympics. Pistorius, called "Blade Runner" because of his blade-like prosthetics, started the year with a qualifying time of 45.20 but missed the required 45.30 mark with a 45.52 finish at the African Championships last weekend. Pistorius wi... Read More
A North Carolina state representative accidentally legalized fracking after pressing the wrong button during a deciding vote on Monday. Democrat Becky Carney had been vigorously lobbying fellow lawmakers to vote "no" on a controversial override that would lift the state's ban on hydraulic fracking. The override passed with exactly the 72 votes it needed. The five-term lawmaker blamed her mistaken button push on fatigue from the late-night session. "I feel rotten, and I feel tired," Carney said... Read More
On the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, a team of scientists, historians and salvagers has embarked on a month-long expedition to find out what happened to the famous aviator over the South Pacific. Encouraged by the U.S. State Department, the team started searching for wreckage of Earhart’s plane near the Pacific nation of Kiribati Tuesday. They believe Earhart survived the crash and that they can locate the wreckage with sophisticated underwater equipment. "Eve... Read More
