The organizers of the European Arm-Wrestling Championship have disqualified Russia's reigning champ after it was revealed that he sent a look-alike for the weigh-in test to enter the low-weight category. Arsen Liliev stood 4. 4 pounds heavier than the weight limit for the 154-pound weight class he wished to enter. After failing at the first weigh-in for 154-pound weight wrestling category, Liliev sent another 136 pound wrestler as a stand-in and cleared the test.

In an attempt to improve the hand-eye coordination of kids, about 42 elementary schools from Sacramento, California participated in a unique two-day sport stacking competition. Attended by over 300 students, the competition is a game in which participants must stack and unstack 12 specially designed plastic cups in the lowest possible time.

Russell Crowe, co-owner of the Southern Sydney Rabbitohs Rugby Team, has traded in its cheerleaders for a percussion band. According to a report in Agence France-Presse (AFP), Crowe felt the scantily dressed cheerleaders made spectators uncomfortable and because he'd like the team to gain a larger female fan base, he felt the decision was good one.

About a month ahead of Basant, an annual festival that marks the spring season and is celebrated by flying colorful kites, authorities on Thursday lifted a ban on kite-flying in Pakistan for a short time after almost a year. The sport was forbidden last year following a series of deaths caused by reinforced kite strings, but the government now lifted the ban about in the eastern province of Punjab and its capital, Lahore.

In the first ever such case, an Indian runner, who won a silver medal in the women's 800 meters in the Asian Games is likely to be stripped off the medal failing a gender test. Santhi Soundarajan won the women's 800 meters but reports revealed that Santhi did not have the sexual characteristics of a woman, Indian TV reported.