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Row, Row, Row Your Boat...Quack

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A duck waddles, paddles, dives, bobs and quacks. A man...waits.

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At the 1928 Olympics quarter-final , oarsman Henry Robert "Bobby" Pearce stopped to let a family of ducks cross his lane and still won with the fastest time of all 8 competitors in that round (and he didn't stop there). Not only did he win the gold medal, but he also set a new Olympic record.
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Longevity and the Olympics

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Olympic medal-winners live almost three years longer than the rest of us.



All that training, regardless of the sport, my pay off in extra years, according to two recent studies.

Both studies, published in the BMJ, confirm the fact that the best athletes in the world are indeed among the healthiest as well, thanks to their rigorous training regimens. And now it seems that fitness translates into a survival advantage as well.

Part A

Part B

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George Eyser

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George Eyser, who competed at the 1904 Olympics and won 6 medals (three golds, two silvers and a bronze), had a wooden leg.


Meet George Eyser. He's the one in the center there, wearing khakis as he holds himself upside down on the parallel bars. Eyser won six medals in the 1904 Summer Olympics (the third modern-day Olympic Games and the first ones where gold, silver and bronze medals were introduced for the first three places). He had one flesh-and-blood leg. The other was amputated below the knee after a train accident. So, how did Eyser  compete over a century ago? With a wooden prosthesis, of course.






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