Race Around the World
As part of our ongoing series called Sports that are Not Football, here's a snow sport that's literally cooler than the Olympics: the annual "Race Around the World." Each year on Christmas Day, researchers at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station take a couple of laps around the geographic South Pole. Penn State physicist Doug Cowen was there for this year's big race, and has this report. For Doug Cowen's audio diary and more photos of the Race Around the World, click here
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For more about the Race Around the World
Joey Hockett was this year's top finisher with a time of 9:05. For complete race results
Doug Cowen works on the Ice Cube telescope. For more about this work
More about the Ice Cube Telescope
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