If you like your thrills without spills, you may prefer cheering on the speed demons in the third annual Rainforest Cup, a mountain biking race Oct. 17-18 in the Malaysian town of Kuching on Borneo.

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Hutchinson currently holds the lap record for the Grand Prix itself at 133.23mph, although Manxman Conor Cummins recorded a slightly faster speed in last year's Dundrod 150 Superbike race.

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He went on to emulate Oreiller's golden hat-trick, at the Grenoble Winter Olympics in 1968, and his pursuit of speed and glory once saw him complete a trial race on one leg, legend has it, having broken the other one en route to the finish line.

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On top of that, Iran could speed up its nuclear ambitions, causing a "daunting and depressing scenario" of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt and Turkey trying to get a nuclear bomb, Shepperd says.

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