German synchronized swimmer Niklas Stoepel has won major national competitions, but he has still been banned from competiting at the international level. Officials in the sychronized swimming world, it seems, still aren't ready for men to participate in the sport. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Sony Corp. will launch a slimmer model of its PlayStation Portable handheld game player in September, in its latest attempt to ignite demand for its game hardware and compete better with Nintendo picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Looks like the self appointed next president Hillary is facing some real competition, and his name rhymes with Yobama. picked by gammerus 2 years ago

A group of seminal contestants match their swimming prowess against one another and a number of small baggies containing rocks of crack-aine in a large back yard swimming pool... *NSFW* picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

Yahoo said Sunday its chief domestic sales officer had resigned and that it will merge its search and display advertising departments in the U.S. as the Internet powerhouse fights to catch up with online search leader Google. picked by pjanaway 2 years ago

About how ebay is cancelling advertising with google due to the high competitiveness between the two companies. picked by pjanaway 2 years ago

Convinceme.net is the ultimate debating website. First off it's free to join. You can create any number challenges, and compete in any number of debates that other users create as challenges. Compete for votes, a winning record, and points. It's your chance to convince the world that you are right! If you get a certain number of points, and have a winning record, you can also have the chance of c... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

All your unicellular buddies are just going to love this. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is rallying a trio of student-built nanobot teams to compete at the world's most popular sport, which will be the second time nanosoccer has accompanied the RoboCup Open. The difference with this year's competition is that the public will be invited to watch. picked by sandossu 2 years ago

A fun filled time where kids compete to see how far they can throw a dead rabbit has been banned due to complaints from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. No word on if they understand that dead rabbits feel no pain.

Killjoys. picked by Moe 2 weeks ago

To compete with icepigs' post:

A little competition never hurt the sport! :) picked by punthe 2 years ago

Alice Cooper judges 15 Maricopa County jailbirds as they battle for lockdown supremacy in the prison's version of American Idol.(includes video of auditions) picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

Google has announced that they will soon be coming out with their own browser named, "Chrome". It will be open source and will have a number of features which may allow it to compete with FF, IE, and similar. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

South Africa’s track and field federation had been asked to conduct a gender test on an 800-meter runner amid concerns she does not meet the requirements to compete as a woman. picked by nateebiinature 3 months ago

British Olympians have bared their soles and much more for CocaCola advertisements. These tasteful and beautiful photos will make you want to compete, too. picked by meggysue 1 year ago

Sony Corp., the world's largest video-game console maker, sold a record number of PLAYSTATION 3 machines in Europe during the holiday shopping season after lowering prices to compete against Nintendo Co.'s Wii. picked by punthe 2 years ago

Out-of-work financial sector workers become hirsute in order to compete at the 2009 Beard & Mustache Competition/. picked by suebe 8 months ago

Norwegian artist Morten Traavik has launched a "beauty pageant" called Miss Landmine, where 10 women compete for the title of most beautiful mutilated Angolan woman, and the first prize of a leg prosthesis. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

The Wall Street Journal said that both companies are currently in talks for forming an alliance so to provide a better competition against the software giant Microsoft Corp. picked by maxriter 3 years ago

This weekend 60 year old Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd will compete in the KEYS100, a distance race from Key Largo to Key West, to raise money for orphans. And she'll do it wearing her calf-length black habit. picked by tigertony 6 months ago

Evidently this is old story, but I've never heard about it.
Qian Hongyan, who was forced to use half a basketball as her prosthetic body, has inspired millions recently with her ambition to compete as a swimmer in the 2012 Paralympics in London. picked by 2manyusernames 11 months ago