One of the headline's in today's online edition of Irkutsk Komsomolskaya Pravda is "In Irkutsk there occured the Womens' Car Races 'The Crystal Stiletto.'" At least that's what I think it means. The article is about this car race (across the ice, for some reason) for women, and it is just as silly as Komsomolskaya Pravda articles usually are (first sentence: "In vain do some consider that there are no women who love speed").
The important thing, though, is the mention of the race's oldest contestant: 60-year-old Tatiana Shestakova, who has had a driver's license for all of four years. She is quoted as saying that she wanted to test her skills, and to see how the others did. I think your delight with this story will be higher in proportion to the number of 60-year-old Russian women you know.
Here is the link, though unfortunately it doesn't include a picture of Tatiana, or race results.
В Иркутске прошли женские автогонки "Хрустальная шпилька-2009"
The photo gallery is here:
excellent pictures
Click the blue "следующая" to move through the pictures.
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According to Babel Fish, these are the helpful photo captions:
1. [woman pointing to the #1 sticker in the car window]Everything is excellent!
2. [dirty car] Before the battle the tank does not wash!
3. [those two guys dancing? ripping off their clothes?] On ice it was in winter the heat
4. [big truck] Ice was durable…
5. [people pushing car] They did get stuck? The matter is customary!
6. [people standing around reading the newspaper] Each obtained the fresh number of Komsomolki
7. [Elvis-Putin] Aerography
8. [women holding pieces of paper wrapped in plastic] Rewarding
9. [strange blue car] Family of the champions
Later photo... woman being sandwiched between a large white bear and a man with a rabbit's tail: The competitions were passed for the spectators.
Further note on #4: the big sign in the truck window says "student driver."
i just realized that this blog is still going
какой русский не любит быстрой езды?
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