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| DAVENPORT, IOWA (August 26, 2006) The western Highlands of Scotland receives, in some places, 120 inches of rain per year. On the day of the Celtic Quad Cities' Games, the weather made a point of providing an authentic touch of Scotland — with rains heavy and light. Nonetheless, the Games went on without a hitch. Below are the MWI.com photo series recording the event. ALL captions are provided by Mark McVey, AD for the GAMES. |
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Rhett Bobzien of Kenosha, Wisconsin. His team set a Guinness Book of World Records for truck pulling. | ||||||||||||
| "Hey, that's a nice looking truck. Maybe I will get some of the guys to pull it around the field between throws." | |||||||||||||
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Jeff Armstrong of Wheaten, Illinois (left), and Daniel Carpenter of Bloomington, Illinois (right). | ||||||||||||
| "And I was complaining that the QC Games were always so damn hot." | |||||||||||||
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Ed Shable of Chatham, Illinois. |
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| "Where is that black lab they said was trained to fetch these sticks?" | |||||||||||||
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Josh Roslik of St. Paul, Minnesota. |
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| "Stupid mud adds five pounds to the weight." | |||||||||||||
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Nate Roos of Iowa City, Iowa. | ||||||||||||
| "At least when I was a Hawkeye they gave me a rain coat if the weather was bad." | |||||||||||||
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Charles Haben, Rich Mansfield, Cameron McDonald, David Schultz and Jeremy Appleby. | ||||||||||||
| New Event: Forty-Pound Soggy Sheaf For Height. | |||||||||||||
| William Staehle and Ed Schable. | |||||||||||||
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| "Now why are we doing this?" | |||||||||||||
| Photo credit: Image sectioned from photo taken on 2/22/06, 6:22:06 pm CST Peoria County, IL USA — Title: Looking Northeast Photographer: Joshua Heston |
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