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| Games of STRENGTH • PAGE TWO Shortly before 10 AM, it cut loose with the rain. After about 45 minutes, the Highland Game athletes headed out from the tents and began competition, largely ignoring the weather. ALL captions are provided by Mark McVey, AD for the GAMES. |
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Bob Weigel, Germantown, Wisconsin. | ||||||||||||
| "I'm so depressed. The rain is washing the magical Santa dust off the field. No PRs today!" | |||||||||||||
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| "What fine Scottish weather!" | |||||||||||||
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| "Maybe I'll run around the field pretending I can fly." | |||||||||||||
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| "If I throw this far, it'll get buried in the mud and nobody will find it!" | |||||||||||||
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| "I knew it! They're using the metal detector to find the buried weight." | |||||||||||||
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Josh Roslik of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Nate Roos of Iowa City, Iowa. | ||||||||||||
| "My advice to you is...Don't slip...." | |||||||||||||
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Rhett Bobzien and Josh Roslik. | ||||||||||||
| "Hey, Josh, you having fun yet?" | |||||||||||||
| 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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