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| |  Friday, 6 September, 2002, 15:39 GMT 16:39 UK Jumbo joust  BBC Sport Online picks out some of the quirky, offbeat or plain daft stories doing the rounds. Jumbo joust It will be chukkas away in September as teams from six nations compete in this year's King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Thailand. Players wielding specially elongated mallets will coax their two-ton charges around the pitch, much as they would in conventional horseback polo. But this heavy-duty version of the game is nothing new - elephant polo was first played in India around the turn of the 20th century by the British aristocracy. And a World Elephant Polo Association was founded in 1982 in Nepal. All the proceeds from the competition will go to helping save Thailand's endangered elephants. But opponents will have to tread carefully - like Roy Keane, elephants never forget. Knockers for Knocker Former Norwich City hardman Tony "Knocker" Powell is turning out for the other side and living as a woman in San Francisco.
Club officials discovered Powell's transfer deal when they invited him as one of 400 all-time Carrow Road stars to help celebrate their 100th anniversary. Norwich are unclear whether Powell, 55, who made 275 appearances between 1975 and 1980, has had a full sex swap or if he is simply a transvestite. But one thing is for sure - he will now feel comfortable wearing Canary Yellow off the pitch as well as on. Hamming it up A hamster has been nabbed by cops driving a toy dragster racing car on the seafront near Blackpool. The rodent was rumbled by day-trippers on the seafront at Cleveleys and shopped in to police. He is now at a Fylde animal sanctuary where he has been nicknamed Speedy. PC Quentin Allen told the Blackpool Evening Gazette: "It was a proper toy racing car with a hamster wheel in the middle and as the hamster runs it operates the car. "It was quite amusing in here because whenever we tried to put Speedy down on the front desk he kept whizzing off trying to escape." Must be some mileage in comparisons with Colin McRat or Michael Shrew-macher. | | See also:  05 Sep 02 | Funny Old Game 04 Sep 02 | Funny Old Game 03 Sep 02 | Funny Old Game 31 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 28 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 23 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 22 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 20 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 19 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 16 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 15 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 14 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 13 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game 08 Aug 02 | Funny Old Game Top Funny Old Game stories now: Links to more Funny Old Game stories are at the foot of the page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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