Are you tired yet of all the perfection at the Olympics in Rio?
We aren’t, either. But we still think the World Bellyflop Championship competition in Norway on Saturday is at least its equal.
In Norway, the sport is called dødsing – or ‘death diving’. And it should be an Olympic sport.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins