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Why How We Select Young Sporting Talent Is Probably All Wrong

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The Car Comrades

There was a twin, I forget the name now, but they were twins. One of the twins ran into a toilet cubicle where his brother was waiting. And suddenly, this guy was in the top 10. The only reason why they discovered that they'd been cheating is that we were wearing different coloured watches. So that's how they caught one had a different coloured watch in the second half and then the other one had adifferent coloured watch in first one. Otherwise, they were identical. Was it in the day of the chip timer? Yes, they swapped chips. They swapped chips. But they almost got away with it. Yeah. It's one of the most famous cheating stories I

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