Striking out
Argentinian tennis player David Nalbandian was disqualified from the men’s final at Queen’s Club after he kicked out at an advertising hoarding, injuring the leg of a line judge sitting close by. It can be dangerous being close to a frustrated sportsman.— Former Manchester United player Eric Cantona executed a flying kick on a Crystal Palace fan after being sent off during a match in 1995. In 1987, while playing for Auxerre, Cantona punched his own goal-keeper, giving him a black eye.
— In 2003, David Beckham received a cut above his eye in what his Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson described as a ‘freakish incident’ involving a flying football boot.
— A woman spectator at the Sri Lanka Test match at Lord’s in 2011 suffered a cut leg from falling glass from a broken window in the England dressing room, to which Matt Prior had returned after being run out for four. A bat was said to have fallen against the window.
— Tiger Woods’s caddie Steve Williams kicked a spectator’s camera at the 2004 US Open after its owner took a photo during Tiger’s backswing. On another occasion, he dropped a fan’s camera in a pond.
Competitive eating
A study by the London School of Tropical Medicine claimed that the world’s obese people eat enough extra food to feed a billion people. How much does food intake vary between nations?
| Average adult weight (kg) | Average daily intake (kCal) | |
| Heaviest nations | ||
| 81.9 | US | 2870 |
| 77.5 | Kuwait | 2980 |
| 76.9 | Qatar | 3010 |
| 76.3 | Croatia | 2740 |
| 74 | Egypt | 2830 |
Lightest nations
| 50.5 | Nepal | 2350 |
| 52.6 | North Korea | 2350 |
| 53.4 | Congo | 2410 |
| 54 | Burundi | 2420 |
| 55.8 | Cambodia | 2472 |
Cage match
A zookeeper was killed by a pack of wolves when she entered an enclosure at a Swedish zoo.
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