WOK RACING.

WOK RACING. People continue to invent sports. I have posted about a couple games that playmates created when I was a boy. Adam Cohen reported on the new sport of wok racing in the weekend Wall Street Journal (March 27-28). Over 3.6 million Germans watched the finals of the 2010 world championship. The race took place on a 1500 yard track that is used by bobsledders and lugers, and Olympic lugers and bobsledders competed. The sport first used the same kind of wok that is used in cooking, which has a round bottom that makes it hard to control. There have been some improvements in equipment. Apparently woks are now waxed and the 2006 winner lined his wok with lead. The inventor of the sport thinks the sport can match the success of snowboarding, which has been in existence for only a few years.