Collecting a hole-in-one on Father's Day is about as good as it gets for a golfing dad, unless his son gets one, too, right afterward. That's exactly what happened when 57-yard-old Lonnie Whitener and his 13-year-old son, according to the Houston Chronicle.
On a cycling website, a man from Minneapolis and his wife told the story of her father, a 79-year-old man with some dementia and how they taught him to ride a bike after 50 years. He still shovels snow and mows the grass… but he didn't remember what childhood bikes were for. But, after a little practice, feeling the wind in his face, he was all smiles.
His brain and body shattered were in a horrible accident as a young boy. He wasn't supposed to live. At 45, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.
A young fan of a London football team that was in Vietnam for an international match showed such spunk by running after the tour bus that the team wanted to meet him. Vu Xuan Tien, 20, wore an Arsenal team jersey and smiled and waved as he dodged traffic and obstacles along a 5-mile stretch in Hanoi. Finally the team decided to stop and let him climb aboard.
Flo Meiler is 79 years old. She's a grandmother to five, great-grandmother to two. She's also a pole-vaulting, hurdle-jumping track and field star -- and a world record holder in 15 events.
Incredible Feat: After Annette Fredskov was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and perhaps wanting to create an unbreakable bond with her own body to ward off the expected degeneration of nerve cells, she began an incredible streak of marathon running that has landed her in the media worldwide. At 41, the Danish woman ran 26.2 miles every single day for the last year, and a double marathon on day #365.
Tennis star Roger Federer has long been considered one of the good guys in sports. A recent Twitter post by a young fan, however, takes Federer's sainthood to a whole new level.
The Deep Meadow Correctional Center houses 800 Virginia inmates. It is also home to 22 horses who like their handlers have often been cast aside. It gives you the sense of accomplishing something, said one of the eight inmate who was chosen to care for the retired race horses.
216 touring cyclists helped launch the expansion of Canada's Waterfront Trail that adds a second Great Lake, Lake Erie, to the now 1400 kilometer bike trail. By almost doubling the amount of Ontario's waterfront available to touring cyclists and with a big city like Windsor anchoring it on one end, the local officials hope the Trail will become a hotbed for tourism.
Instead of choosing to spend the holidays relaxing at home, British adventurist Maria Leijerstam, a 35 year-old former management consultant, just broke two world records by becoming the first person to cycle to the South Pole in record time.
Before his swim meet on Dec. 7 had even started, Florida swimmer Josh Zuchowski, 9, decided he was not only going to compete in honor of his biggest rival, but also win the top trophy in the event and give it to him.
Near Bridgewater, Mass., a band of brothers from a football team heard about their fiercely-loved water boy getting teased. The small 6-year-old boy who has some speech impediments was being teased for wearing tweed suits with ties every day.
Two graduate students are getting global attention after creating an "invisible bike helmet" - actually a mini airbag designed to protect bicyclists' heads from injuries.
Avid soccer player Bree McMahon was undeterred after an accident took her leg in her final year at high school. Keeping herself fixed on her goal, she is now running again.
To promote the February Sochi Olympics, the Russian Olympic Committee has added a machine in the Moscow subway that gives a free ticket if you can complete at least 30 squats within two minutes.
Every one of the more than 45,000 runners expected to finish the 2013 ING New York City Marathon on November 3 brings to the race their own motivation and reason for running. Bill Reilly is running in his 30th marathon to demonstrate the great strides people living with cerebral palsy can make when offered access to the right services.
It was through sheer force of will and spirit -- and not fancy sneakers -- that a group of indigenous boys from the mountains of Mexico won a world youth basketball tournament, trouncing their opponents even while several players ran barefoot. The boys, even with their short stature, won with scores ranging from 40-16 to 86-3, according to their local Oaxaca state government, which hailed them as returning heroes Thursday.
An Edmond, Oklahoma boy wrote to a television station about his brother who has cerebral palsy. The words, the penmanship are clearly those of a young child, but the compassion and caring speaks of a much older soul.
Aaron D'Errico always wanted to play soccer like his superstar dad who led the USA Men's National soccer team, but since birth, his leg muscles have been damaged by disease. His determination to overcome, however, blossomed in his imagination where he visualized his victories through a comic soccer superhero named Ammon. The hero, Ammon, is a medical student with cerebral palsy who secretly dreams of being a soccer star – like his father – but during his search for a cure, he gains superpowers through a blend of science and spirit. Aaron himself has become an inspiring hero to Marvel comics icon Stan Lee, and may become a mentor to an upcoming artist thanks to his online contest offering $2,000 to an aspiring illustrator.
The twin sisters have competed together in biathlon careers that have spanned 15 years. Their shooting and cross-country skiing earned each of them spots on the US Olympic team in the 2006 games. But this year, luck dealt one a brutal blow as she fell ill and missed the qualifying races that could have earned her the fifth spot on the five-person team. The other competed well and earned a spot, but last week said she was declining the opportunity to compete in Sochi — so that the other could take her place.
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