[HN Gopher] The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than ...
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The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football
Author : pseudolus
Score : 36 points
Date : 2021-08-01 10:41 UTC (1 days ago)
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| cafard wrote:
| It's still an Olympic event. I used to know a race walker in the
| DC area, but I don't know where he found events to compete in. I
| think he was the one who told me that race walking develops the
| muscles more evenly than running does. (I can't remember exactly
| how he put it.)
| WaitWaitWha wrote:
| It is still practiced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racewalking
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| Interestingly the mentioned wobble is used by today's racers.
| Destroys their hips.
| legerdemain wrote:
| Check out the bematists of ancient Greece![1]
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bematist
| bb101 wrote:
| "On the fifth day, the leading horse - a black mare known as
| Betsy Baker - stopped responding to the whip, and retired for two
| hours. She was apparently exhausted, and nothing could induce her
| to continue except champagne." -- The past truly is a foreign
| country.
| mprovost wrote:
| The article has a photo of the Royal Agricultural Hall in London
| where they used to hold races. It's now called the Business
| Design Centre and this year has been converted into a mass
| vaccination centre - it's where I got my jab!
| jackfoxy wrote:
| Family lore has it that my great grandfather, living in Manhattan
| in the last decades of the 19th century, was a race walker, and
| pretty good at it.
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