Inhuman. Usain Bolt breaks the unbreakable record again, by a ton. 19.19 in the 200m. The gap he opens up in this race, oh my.

08/21/09 @ 09:45 PM

Here’s an HD video of Usain Bolt crushing his own world record in the 100 meters. 9.58! Tyson Gay turns in the third-fastest time in history at 9.71.

08/18/09 @ 06:07 PM

Video of Andy Bolton’s new deadlift world record. 457.5kg (1008.6 lbs). Over one THOUSAND pounds, and he looks like he could have lifted even more.

04/05/09 @ 07:36 PM

Straight to the Bar with the nice embed: Danny Higginbottom’s highest shallow dive. He dives 30 feet into a foot of water. Looks like an inflatable pool you’d buy at Walmart. With my luck, I’d probably miss the whole thing.

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02/06/09 @ 01:00 PM

I just found, via the Crossfit forums, an Outside article from 2003 on Juliet Draper, a monster competitor at the Firefighter's Combat Challenge. Here's the deal with the course:

Today's racers--some 100 men and two women, all wearing 75 pounds of firefighting gear--will have to lug a 45-pound hose pack up five flights of stairs; hoist another 45-pound hose pack, by a rope, to the top of a stair platform; drive a 165-pound steel I-beam with a sledgehammer; run through orange traffic cones to reach a water-charged hose, which they'll drag 75 feet; and walk 100 feet backward, pulling a 175-pound dummy named Rescue Randy. All this while wearing masks and breathing from the bulky scuba-type air tanks firefighters carry on their backs.

Since then, she absolutely crushed the previous women's world record for the course, at the same time becoming the first woman to break 2:00 (by a significant margin, I might add).

06/11/08 @ 08:59 PM

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