Man Does A Wine Tasting While Running A Marathon
A guy enjoyed a wine tasting while running the London Marathon (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A man had his own wine tasting session while running a full marathon! Yeah, because running more than 26 miles by itself isn’t challenging enough. This one tastes like…sweat. As does the next, and the other, and the third.
It happened during the London Marathon. Here’s more on the trending story.
British Man Does Wine Tasting While Running Marathon
Some people love running. Other people love wine. Who says you can’t love both at the same time? According to The Guardian, a wine merchant did a blind wine tasting at each mile of the marathon. Yes, that means he sampled 25 glasses of wine while running. Sure, it’s cool that he’s gone viral but he’s also honored that he surpassed his fundraising target.
Tom Gilbey has been nicknamed the “wine guy” since going viral on social media during the London Marathon. Not only did he do the wine tasting, but he stopped to guess the grape variety, country of origin, and the vintage at each mile, per The Guardian. It turns out of the 25 wines he sampled, he only got 4 of them completely wrong, 7 spot on correct, and the rest were mostly correct! That’s an amazing skill I wish I had.
Now, his video on TikTok has gotten more than 3.2 million views and continues to climb. Additionally, he’s topped his fundraising goal six-fold. He originally set out to raise 2,000 Euros and ended up raising more than 13,000 Euros for Sobel House, according to The Guardian. Great to see someone go viral and use it to help others outside of just benefiting themselves, you don’t see that very often on the internet.
According to The Guardian, Gilbey said, “It was hilarious because when you’re overtaken by a fridge and double-humped camel, you could get really depressed unless you knew there was a nice wine around the corner with some friendly faces to support you.” For those wondering, he did spit out the wine.
5 Extreme Red Bull Sports That Should Be In The Olympics
The Summer Olympics will take place in Paris, France this Summer! Unfortunately, there’s not much to look forward to this year. There aren’t many well-known athletes competing in the games this year. Ratings aren’t expected to be great this time around. However, there is a way to bring a huge amount of viewers to the TV to watch the games. It will just require some changes to the games. Here are 5 extreme Red Bull sports that should be in the Olympics!
These extreme sports will likely not be in the games any time soon. However, if they want good ratings they should definitely add these sports to the lineup.
5 Extreme Red Bull Sports That Should Be In The Olympics
The Paris games kick off Friday, July 26th and it will conclude on August 11th. At the 2024 Paris Games, there will be swimming, archery, rhythm gymnastics, tennis, diving, wrestling, and more. Sound exciting? Yeah, didn’t think so. However, if they added some extreme sports, things would probably be more interesting! Honestly, right now the thing I’m looking forward to seeing the most are cool shots of Paris. It’s a beautiful city. The competition? Not very exciting this time around.
Red Bull Sports have been making waves for a while now. They’ve done some very extreme stuff that has gone viral. Some of the things they’ve done have never been attempted before, and probably never will be again. That’s the kind of activity I want to see at the games! I can watch people swim in any public pool at any time during the summer months. These extreme sports are much harder to find.
Seriously, they should consider doing this. It’s not like they’d struggle to find athletes to compete in the games. There are people doing daring stunts and participating in extreme sports in every country in the world, I imagine. Additionally, people love watching this kind of stuff! It’s time to update the games a little. We need to bring them into the 21st century. How do we do that? Extreme sports. Here are 5 Red Bull sports I’d like to see integrated into the Olympics.
Cort Freeman was born and raised in Metro Detroit. He was named Clarkston High School 2009 Class Clown 13 years after graduating. Totally normal thing to happen. That’s thanks to his time spent as an Intern at Comedy Central and Social Media Correspondent for The Colbert Report. Cort has done comedy across the country, both standing up and sitting down. When he’s not trying to make you laugh on-air and online, he’s probably at home enjoying his favorite shows like Seinfeld, South Park, and The Office. He’s also totally uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person. Cort enjoys writing about comedy, food, sports, and entertainment. So, basically anything and everything.
