Wacky Races
by veronica
The race begins! There is chaos everywhere as the crowd cheers! But wait disaster happens as the leader of the race is snatched up by a bird! Well that’s what usually happens when snails are racing! It’s just one of the wackiest races that is becoming popular. Thanks to the internet, snail racing became popular when an online gambling site took bets on a race in 2000. The fastest garden snail can cross the finish line at 20cm a minute. Then there’s camel racing with robot riders. Yep! You read it right, robot riders. Jockeys for camel racing were boy slaves as young as six years old so there was an uproar and it was made illegal to use them. So now some camels are ridden by robot jockeys controlled by the trainer following the race in a car! Brisbane, Australia hosts the world’s oldest coackroach race since 1982. Then there’s the frog race in California, USA where 2,000 frogs compete once a year to beat the 1986 record of 6.55 meters! Let’s not forget the ostrich racing in Arizona. These big birds cannot fly but they sure can run at 40 miles per hour! Whooossh! Hold on to your hats! See more amazing sports facts in the book “Would you believe..the losers were killed in Mayan football? and other perilous pastimes” at the children non fiction area of the library.
