• Olympic sprinter obliterates John Ross's 40 time, Bolt challenge
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    Olympic sprinter obliterates John Ross's 40 time, Bolt challenge

    Ross set a combine record by ripping through the 40-yard dash in 4.22 seconds. Flush with the glory of his new job, Ross declared he could beat Olympic champion Usain Bolt in the 40-yard dash, and even challenged him to a race.

  • A 12-year-old chess champion was kicked out of a tournament for her ‘seductive’ dress, her coach says
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    A 12-year-old chess champion was kicked out of a tournament for her ‘seductive’ dress, her coach says

    A 12-year-old chess champion in Malaysia was forced to withdraw from a youth tournament in the country after tournament organizers deemed her knee-length dress too "seductive," the girl's coach said. The tournament director of the National Scholastic Chess Championship held April 14-16 made the call personally, the coach noted, after finding the dress to be "temptation." "We found this statement completely out of line!" youth chess coach Kaushal Khandhar wrote on Facebook. He said the incident left his student feeling "extremely disturbed, and embarrassed." Dress codes in chess are not unusual, as FIDE, world chess's governing body, allows tournament organizers to set them before their events