A 41-year-old man has finally completed the London Marathon “gorilla-style!”
Tom Harrison, who calls himself Mr. Gorilla, crawled the entire 26.2 mile route, completing the course in six-and-a-half days and raising a whopping £26,000 for The Gorilla Organization, which supports grassroots conservation projects to address key threats facing gorillas today, according to the BBC. (The actual marathon began last Sunday.)
“Prior to this, the most I had crawled in one go was a mile, so I found the first day of the marathon really exhausting,” he told the news network, which noted he crawled for 10 to 12 hours per day.
Harrison, a father...
Tom Harrison, who calls himself Mr. Gorilla, crawled the entire 26.2 mile route, completing the course in six-and-a-half days and raising a whopping £26,000 for The Gorilla Organization, which supports grassroots conservation projects to address key threats facing gorillas today, according to the BBC. (The actual marathon began last Sunday.)
“Prior to this, the most I had crawled in one go was a mile, so I found the first day of the marathon really exhausting,” he told the news network, which noted he crawled for 10 to 12 hours per day.
Harrison, a father...
- 4/29/2017
- by Katherine Richter
- PEOPLE.com
With the English Cricket Board announcing its intention to create a new city-based T20 competition, beginning in 2020, can it really compete with the Indian Premier League and Australia’s Big Bash?
For a sport so entrenched in tradition, just hearing these plans were enough to raise collective eyebrows in the English cricketing establishment. With the 18 first-class counties not to be involved, over a hundred years of order was wiped away.
And what will replace it? Well, we’re still not entirely sure. The new competition is yet to have a brand name and no confirmed teams.
What we do know is it’ll run during school summer holidays over and will feature eight city-based teams. An Ipl-style player auction will help promotion and wet appetites in the build up to the tournament, with each team spending an allocated budget. Though unlikely to make players millionaires (at least not right away), a draft pick-auction system,...
For a sport so entrenched in tradition, just hearing these plans were enough to raise collective eyebrows in the English cricketing establishment. With the 18 first-class counties not to be involved, over a hundred years of order was wiped away.
And what will replace it? Well, we’re still not entirely sure. The new competition is yet to have a brand name and no confirmed teams.
What we do know is it’ll run during school summer holidays over and will feature eight city-based teams. An Ipl-style player auction will help promotion and wet appetites in the build up to the tournament, with each team spending an allocated budget. Though unlikely to make players millionaires (at least not right away), a draft pick-auction system,...
- 4/1/2017
- by Ed Dixon
- The Cultural Post
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