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VEGETABLES
Vegetables are vital for success in penalty shootouts.
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COMMUNITY
Professional darts players (dartists?) rely on grain products for their nutrition.
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COURAGE
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PRIDE
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MONTREAL, 1976: British high jumper H. Dumpty and Canadian pole vaulter Karl Ott fail to win medals in their respective events.
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HONOUR
While most Japanese eggplants are small and thin, large western style eggplants are valued for their nutrition and great strength.
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DEUCE
Though he would later be best known for going mad, tennis prodigy Stefan Breadberg was the toast of Wimbledon in 1987.
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STRAIN
Sometimes there is a fine fuzzy line between sport and survival. It is never fuzzier than in equatorial ocean rowing.
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CUNNING
Table tennis requires concentration, imagination, and flair - qualities usually associated with the common asparagus.
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SPITE
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TORMENT
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Sam and Stephen Squasz invented the game that would later be named in their memory. Both tragically perished in a bizarre soup accident.
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OBSESSION
Miniature golf became more than a "fun way to spend an afternoon" for Big Ollie Rainge. Here, he is seen losing his rent money to a local hustler in Topeka, Kansas.
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DESCENT
Daredevils are common in the vegetable kingdom. "Life is short," explains this paratrooping raddichio.
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BALLET
Though he has been rooted to the ground for most of his adult life, Leif Tryba is an accomplished figure skater, ballet dancer and javelin thrower.
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RISK
The Toronto Blue Jays had high hopes for Jorge Leeka when they scouted him in The Dominican Republic as a youth. He never made an impact at the professional level, however - perhaps due to the, shall we say, bulbous middle he developed with age.
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