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One Wheel Wonder

The Winter Olympics brought us a dazzling array of snow based spectacles from biathlon to bobsleigh but surely there’s one extreme activity the Olympic committee has overlooked

It’s wheelbarrow freestyle, as developed by a bunch of english nutters. Formerly the preserve of the horiculturalist or builder, the barrow has been re-appopriated as an urban extreme sports utility vehicle with it’s own collection of racy moves including the Pop Jump and the fly through and it’s proponents have even appeared on Richard and Judy.

It sounds great but the aspiring freestyler should be warned the life span of a sporting barrow is only about six months. So, this sport could be expensive unless you ink a lucrative sponsorship contract with B & Q.

© Tinpot Productions 2005-2007

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