The new electric surfboard that doesn't need waves

 

This amazing electric surfboard, made by a Spanish company, allows the rider to surf over the water without the need for waves.

WOW!

Aquila Boards have spent the last few years developing an electric jet board for their brand Onean, with the help of product engineering company Bizintek. The boards make it possible to surf without any waves.(From Contemporist)

The boards are 100% electric and also almost completely silent.

They work on rivers, sea, lakes and only take two hours to fully charge.

The company, Onean, who are based in Spain made two boards.

They're called the Carver, which is speedier and the Manta which is for a gentler ride. (CBBC Newsround)

The robot footballers hoping for a cup win

Meet the UK's robo-footie team who've been training hard for this year's RoboCup World Championships.

The robots were built by a team at the University of Hertfordshire, and put in a cracking performance last year by grabbing second place in Brazil.

Each robot is programmed with around 50,000 different lines of code to help them to know what to do.

The RoboCup is an annual football competition, which first started in 1997.

Around 500 teams from more than 45 countries will take part in this year's contest, which kicks off in China on 19 July.

From CBBC newsround

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Surfer Garrett MacNamara rides 'weather bomb' wave

Surfers have flocked to Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal, to try and catch massive waves generated by an Atlantic storm that hit the UK.

Garret Macnamara

Surfer Garrett MacNamara tried to repeat his performance of 2011 when he surfed the world's biggest wave at 30 metres high.

Unfortunately the 'weather bomb' waves off the coast of Nazaré only reached 20 metres - but he still managed to impress.

From CBBC newsround

Nazaré (Portuguese pronunciation: [nɐzɐˈɾɛ]) is a town and a municipality in subregion Oeste and Leiria District, in Portugal. It is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the Silver Coast/Costa de Prata, Portugal.The municipal holiday is September 8 with the Festas da Nazaré a religious and profane festival with processions, bullfights, fireworks, folk dancing and a fair.

The town consists of three neighbourhoods: Praia (along the beach), Sítio (an old village, on top of a cliff) and Pederneira (another old village, on a hilltop). Praia and Sítio are linked by the Nazaré Funicular, a funicular railway. (in Wikipedia)

Winter Olympics- Then and Now

The Winter Olympics have changed so much since their first edition in 1924!

The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four years. The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, was held in Chamonix, France. The original 5 sports (broken into 9 disciplines) were bobsleigh, curling,ice hockey, Nordic skiing (consisting of the disciplines military patrol,cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping), and skating (consisting of the disciplines figure skating and speed skating). The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted by World War II. The Olympics resumed in 1948 and was again held every four years. Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years, but in accordance with a 1986 decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to place the Summer and Winter Games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years, the next Winter Olympics after 1992 was in 1994.

The Winter Games has evolved since its inception. Sports and disciplines have been added and some of them, such as Alpine skiiing, luge, short track speed skating, freestyle skiing, skeleton, and snowboarding, have earned a permanent spot on the Olympic programme. Others (such as curling and bobsleigh) have been discontinued and later reintroduced, or have been permanently discontinued (such as military patrol, though the modern Winter Olympic sport of biathlon is descended from it). Still others, such as speed skiing, bandy and skijoring, were demonstration sports but never incorporated as Olympic sports. The rise of television as a global medium for communication enhanced the profile of the Games. It created an income stream, via the sale of broadcast rights and advertising, which has become lucrative for the IOC. This allowed outside interests, such as television companies and corporate sponsors, to exert influence. The IOC has had to address several criticisms, internal scandals, the use of performance enhancing drugs by Winter Olympians, as well as a political boycott of the Winter Olympics. Nations have used the Winter Games to showcase the claimed superiority of their political systems.

                                 

The Olympic flame at Sochi-2014- Olympic Winter Games

 

                  

Images from the press at the time of the first Olympic Games in Chamonix- Switzerland- 2014

Twelve countries – Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States – have sent athletes to every Winter Olympic Games. Six of those – Austria, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States – have earned medals at every Winter Olympic Games, and only one – the United States – has earned gold at each Games. Germany and Japan have been banned at times from competing in the Games.

in Wikipedia

2022 World Cup dates still undecided

The dates when the 2022 World Cup will be played will not be decided until after the 2014 World Cup, according to the world football governing body Fifa.

On 8th January the general secretary of Fifa told Radio France: "The dates for the World Cup will not be June-July."

He suggested it could take place between 15 November and 15 January.

But later Fifa bosses said no official decision will be made until later this year.

Why would they move the tournament?

Temperatures in Qatar where the World Cup will take place, can reach up to 50 degrees Celsius in the summer and would be dangerous for players and fans alike.

If the tournament is moved to the winter months, temperatures would be more like 25 degrees Celcius.

Sepp Blatter, Fifa president said two months ago that a firm decision on dates for the 2022 World Cup will be made in December 2014 .

Qatar organisers have indicated they would be happy to switch to a winter World Cup.

From CBBC newsround

Teddy bears invade an ice hockey game in Canada

Epic! 26 000 teddy bears "fly" and invade hockey arena in Canada

                                                    It's TEDDY TOSS

It was the annual Teddy Bear toss game between the Calgary Hitmen and the Medicine Hat Tigers.

Fans bring teddies to the game and throw them onto the ice when the Hitmen score their first goal.

26,000 of them were launched onto the rink!

All of them will now be donated to local charities. So it's all for a good cause.

From CBBC newsround

Usain Bolt sings on BBC Radio 5 Live

Usain Bolt says he hasn't decided whether to compete at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next summer.

The world's fastest man said if he does take part, he'll only compete in the 200 metre sprint.

If he does retire from running, Usain could always pursue a career in pop music.

He surprised radio listeners by singing a famous song by fellow Jamaican Bob Marley during an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live.

From CBBC Newsround

I think he isn't much of a singer. Maybe he should just run and be the fastest man on Earth!

Dutch cyclist claims new world speed record in Nevada

Dutch cyclist Sebastiaan Bowier has pedalled his way into the record books, becoming the fastest ever cyclist in a human powered vehicle.

He pedalled the special bike known as Velo X3 along one of the smoothest roads in the world, in Nevada USA.

Reaching a top speed of over 83 miles per hour, Sebastiaan broke the previous record set in 2009 by a Canadian cyclist.

Odd bike, isn't it?

From CBBC newsround