Simon Gerrans won his second Tour Down Under for the newly formed team Green Edge on Sunday in Adelaide, Australia. Gerrans, 31, also took a victory at the race in 2006, before it appeared on the world tour calendar. He is one of three Australians, including 2011 Tour de France champion Cadel Evans, to take the overall title. Gerrans finished Sunday's final stage with the same time as Spain's Alejandro Valverde but was awarded victory by virtue of having finished higher in several earlier stag... Read More
On Saturday, Dutch teen Laura Dekker became the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe solo when she sailed into the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Martin. Dekker, 16, spent a year and a half at sea on her boat, a 38-foot Jeanneau Ginfizz ketch named Guppy. Netherlands authorities originally tried to block Dekker from leaving, prompting her to run away to St. Martin in 2009. A Dutch court eventually consented to the trip, provided that she take a first aid course and enroll in a distance-l... Read More
Felicity Aston completed the world's first solo crossing of Antarctica by a woman on Monday, nearly two months after departing from the continent's northern coast on November 25. Aston, 34, is also the only human ever to traverse the continent alone and under her own power. Previous solo explorers have used sails to help pull them across. Aston skied more than 1,000 miles, pulling her equipment by sled, and was aided only by two food drops. Farmer, 48, completed a 13,000-mile run from the Nort... Read More
A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday has detected a large and growing dome of freshwater in the western Arctic Ocean that could result in colder temperatures in Europe. Scientists from Britain's National Oceanography Centre used satellites to measure sea surface height from 1995 to 2010, revealing an area of the Arctic sea that has risen about 15 centimeters since 2002. Researchers concluded that weakening polar ice and strengthening arctic winds were responsible for sp... Read More
American BASE jumper Jeb Corliss won't be charged for the illegal jump off Cape Town's Table Mountain that sent him to the hospital last week, South Africa National Parks said on Thursday. The agency will fine Corliss 1,500 Rand—approximately $189—for the stunt. They also plan to fine the company that filmed the jump, and may deny the company a permit to film in South Africa's national parks in the future. Corliss clipped a ledge on the mountain's Africa Face during a wingsuit jump... Read More
