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LEGENDparty — The starting line (Picture: Richard Walch)

More than 150 snowboarders from all over the world are expected to participate to a vintage race in Prato Nevoso, in the north of Italy, on Saturday.

Colourful vintage clothes and historical snowboards will literally invade the highest mountain of the ski resort and compete in a race divided into two categories: one for the legends who have ridden before 1992, and another one for the ones who started later.

The Legend party is already popular both in the Californian ski ranch of Donner and in the Austrian Stuben, where every year hundreds of riders meet for fun.

“As this year we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Prato Nevoso Snow Surf Club, we recruited some friends and organized a parallel edition in Italy,” said Dino Bonelli, owner of the Surf Shop in the town and editor of the Italian Snowboard Museum.

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Five robots walking along the red and blue lines of a track on an immaculate floor, but no one waving at them: it couldn’t be a kids playground. In fact, it was the first Robot marathon, held last Thursday in west Japan.

Five miniature robots, each less than 50cm tall, have been “running” for more than 50 hours –the winner clocked 54 hours, 57 minutes, 50.26 seconds – to complete a 26 miles marathon. Instead of a city route, the electrical athletes have competed on a 100-metre track in the Osaka’s Asia-Pacific trade centre. It took them 422 laps to finish the race: irrelevant details, as they are battery charged and can’t feel tired, neither bored.

Organized by the Japanese robot maker Vstone to prove the machine’s durability and manoeuvrability, the “Robo Mara Full” was transmitted on streaming from a camera installed in the head of a racer. Nice idea, but the advertising breaks were the most exciting parts of all the eleven shots uploaded by the company.

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