Where the Hell Are the Brakes? ; It's Britain's Newest and Craziest Official Sport -- Rolling Down Hills, Strapped in a Giant Plastic Ball. And As Harry Mount Discovered, It's Really Rather Scary
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NEXT door to Thomas Hardy's old cottage, I'm standing in the corner of a field in a remote Dorset valley and some creamybrown Limousin cows are about to witness a new chapter in British sporting history.
This is the very spot where a new athletic discipline arrived in this country nine years ago.See the full content of this document
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Where the Hell Are the Brakes? ; It's Britain's Newest and Craziest Official Sport -- Rolling Down Hills, Strapped in a Giant Plastic Ball. And As Harry Mount Discovered, It's Really Rather Scary
Right now, I'm about to try it out for myself. And the most pressing matter is: how I am going to survive the next 38 seconds? I am about to climb inside a giant PVC ball and hurl myself down 200 yards of extremely steep Dorset hill.
Imagine an athletic hamster spinning around the inside of a plastic ball. Then imagine chucking the ball down an enormous flight of stairs -- with me substituted for the hamster -- and you get the picture.It har...See the full content of this document
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