Frenchman retains snail spitting world title
AFP, August, 2004
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MOGUERIEC, France (AFP) — A French seaweed collector retained one of the world's lesser-known sporting titles at the weekend -- that of champion snail spitter, propelling the tiny creature a total of 9.38 meters (31 feet).
Alain Jourden, 43, beat back the challenge posed by 110 pretenders from 14 countries including Belgium, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden, but failed to surpass his own world distance record of 10.4 meters.
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"Wind conditions were not favorable," said one of the organizers of Sunday's event, which drew 2,000 spectators to the tiny Brittany port of Mogueriec, located near the town of Roscoff. ...
