In 1951, a 66 year old man wasn’t allowed to enter a 1800km (1118 miles) long bicycle race because of being "too old". He showed up anyways and won the race by biking for days without sleep. He got the nickname ”Grandpa Steel”.
More fool them. He'd spent his life on a farm rounding up animals - but where other people were doing it with a dog or a motorbike, he was doing it by running.
It was an 875 kilometre race and he won. And then he split the prize money and gave it to all the other competitors.
lolsforalls23 on September 29th, 2020 at 02:13 UTC »
Grandpa need to lay off of the cocaine cola
Edit: but thats still cool
Now go buy a coca cola and be the change you wanna see, or just play video games
Edit 2: this message was sponcered by Pepsi© "Thats what I like"
Heressentialhand on September 29th, 2020 at 02:24 UTC »
See also Cliff Young who wasn't young when he won the Sydney to Melbourne run in gumboots.
TheDevilsAdvokaat on September 29th, 2020 at 03:54 UTC »
We had one like this in AUstralia.
SHowed up for an UltraMarathon foot race at the age of 61 and the other competitors thought it was a big joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)
More fool them. He'd spent his life on a farm rounding up animals - but where other people were doing it with a dog or a motorbike, he was doing it by running.
It was an 875 kilometre race and he won. And then he split the prize money and gave it to all the other competitors.