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Armstrong Plays Second Fiddle to Teammate
 Armstrong Plays Second 
 Fiddle to Teammate 
TOUR DE FRANCE
Jul 10, 2009 1:21 PM CDT

Armstrong Plays Second Fiddle to Teammate

(Newser) - Lance Armstrong suffered a late setback today as a teammate made a last-minute push in the seventh stage of the Tour de France, the New York Times reports. Armstrong's Astana teammate Alfredo Contador didn't win the longest stage of the Tour—Brice Feillu did—and Rinaldo Nocentini still holds the...

Olympic Snowboarder Dies in Climbing Accident

(Newser) - Former Olympic snowboarding champ Karine Ruby of France died yesterday after she and two fellow climbers tumbled into a glacial crevasse while descending Mont Blanc in France. One of her companions survived the fall, but sustained serious injuries and was air-lifted to the hospital. The 31-year-old Ruby, who won a...

Two Daredevils Climb Times Tower
 Two Daredevils 
 Climb Times Tower 
updated
Jun 5, 2008 7:14 PM CDT

Two Daredevils Climb Times Tower

One is a celebrated French climber known for such stunts

(Newser) - Two men scaled the New York Times' 52-story headquarters today within hours of each other, the New York Post reports. Police identified the first as Alain Robert, a French climber known as Spiderman for scaling skyscrapers with minimal equipment. He unfurled a banner reading, “Global warming kills more people...

Robot Offers Hope to Would-Be Spidermen

Electric adhesion allows machine to scale walls carrying 75 pounds

(Newser) - Researchers have created a wall-climbing robot that uses electrically activated adhesion to get up any surface—dusty, wet, glass or concrete. Other Spiderman-imitating machines use a different kind of gecko-inspired technology and generate stronger sticking power than the new ‘bot, but the simplicity of the approach means it could...

Mountain of Litter Spoiling Everest Majesty

Peak draws hundreds of climbers, who leave behind trash

(Newser) - Mount Everest remains an irresistable lure for hundreds of climbers every year—and it shows in a bad way. In the wake of Edmund Hillary's death, the Independent surveys the landscape of the world's highest mountain and finds it littered with climbers' trash. It's a matter of logistics, experts say....

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