World Masters Games: Golden oldies compete
More than 28,000 aged athletes from 95 countries have descended on Sydney for the World Masters Games.
The event - which has the slogan "fit, fun, forever young" - aims to show that people of all ages can enjoy taking part in sports.
It has been held every four years since it's inauguration in Toronto in 1985 and is the world's biggest multi-sport event (it even has more entrants than the Olympics).
At the World Masters Games it is not unusual to find a 90-year-old sprinter or a centenarian shot putter.
Stars of the 2009 event have so far included Ruth Frith, a 100-year-old shot putting great-grandmother, Ralph Howard, who at 91 has been rowing for the past 75 years and Santa Claus, a bearded, barefoot runner.
This has got to be one of the few sporting events where competitors are more likely to break a hip than a world record.
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Images courtesy of the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Organising Committee
The event - which has the slogan "fit, fun, forever young" - aims to show that people of all ages can enjoy taking part in sports.
It has been held every four years since it's inauguration in Toronto in 1985 and is the world's biggest multi-sport event (it even has more entrants than the Olympics).
At the World Masters Games it is not unusual to find a 90-year-old sprinter or a centenarian shot putter.
Stars of the 2009 event have so far included Ruth Frith, a 100-year-old shot putting great-grandmother, Ralph Howard, who at 91 has been rowing for the past 75 years and Santa Claus, a bearded, barefoot runner.
This has got to be one of the few sporting events where competitors are more likely to break a hip than a world record.
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World Masters Games
Images courtesy of the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Organising Committee
