Segway polo could only be described as a niche sport, invented by technology workers in Silicon Valley in the United States around 2003 - where a number of teams are still playing. The sport began when two Segway owners, Jonathan VanClute and Alex Ko, fashioned makeshift mallets from PVC piping and used them to hit a miniature beach ball in the park.
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Sir Keith Mills adds Glazebrook Trophy to Queen's Cup won on opening day at Cowes
Sunday 04 August 2013
By just two seconds, Sir Keith Mills and the crew of his TP52 Fiveᵒ West pipped rival Johnny’s Vincent’s Pace to add the Glazebrook Tophy to the Queen’s Cup they won on the opening day of the AAM Cowes Week.
Kiwis opt out of further racing and choose direct route to Louis Vuitton Cup final
Sunday 28 July 2013
The Kiwis have chosen to bypass the semi-final stage of the Louis Vuitton Cup elimination trials to challenge for the America’s Cup. By winning the preliminary round robin, Emirates Team New Zealand exercised its right to choose between selecting a semi-final opponent or going direct to the final.
Social network giant Twitter apologises after sending fake tweets from real user accounts
Thursday 25 July 2013
Promotional blog featured posts from real users apparently discussing commercials they had seen
“Kill switch” software to tackle smartphone theft as Boris Johnson calls for action
Sunday 21 July 2013
New security measures needed as part of “corporate responsibility, Mayor tells companies
San Francisco crash: Authorities confirm third victim died after being struck by a rescue vehicle
Saturday 20 July 2013
County Coroner says victim was still alive when she was hit by a rescue truck
US-led bids vie to take over buying MoD’s kit
Wednesday 17 July 2013
A trio of US-led consortiums have formed to bid on the Ministry of Defence’s hugely controversial quasi-privatisation of the £14bn agency that buys the armed forces’ submarines, tanks and air-to-air missiles.
Asiana San Francisco runway crash survivors
to sue Boeing
Wednesday 17 July 2013
Seatbelts and collapsing seats said to have exacerbated injuries of 83 people
George Zimmerman trial: Reverend Al Sharpton calls for day of action as Trayvon Martin juror reveals doubts
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Half of all-female jury ‘thought George Zimmerman was guilty but were talked out of it’
San Francisco plane crash: Asiana Airlines will sue KTVU after TV station 'used racially offensive names' for the pilots
Monday 15 July 2013
The airline claims that the incident seriously damaged Asiana's reputation
Chinese schoolgirl, 15, named as third victim of Asiana runway crash
Sunday 14 July 2013
The third person to die from injuries sustained when an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed in San Francisco has been identified as a 15-year-old classmate of the two earlier victims.
The America’s Cup fails to impress with revolutionary adjustments
Sunday 14 July 2013
It was supposed to be a wholesale restyling of an event that goes back to a yacht race around the Isle of Wight in 1851. It was going to be, rather insultingly to some, a switch from the Flintstone to the Facebook generation. Instead it has fallen into the age-old traps of overweening ambition and misguided dollops of greed.
Third victim of the Asiana air crash at San Francisco airport has been identified
Friday 12 July 2013
Identity of third child revealed as authorities confirm that one of the earlier victims was hit by a fire engine
The Playlist: Jay -Z / Pond / Chvrches
Friday 12 July 2013
The songs that are hot on our playlist this week
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- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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