Will you be joining the thousands at the start line of the Wings for Life World Run 2017, the fourth consecutive global running event? This year, the world for those who can't will run on May 7, 2017. Last year, we ran 1,255 million kilometers of hope and collected 6.6 million euros in donations. Can we beat these numbers this year?
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Currently, the third season of the Formula E championship is underway, in which ten teams with two drivers each compete with Spark Racing Technology (SRT) cars, which are powered by electricity instead of gasoline vapors. The title is defended by the Renault e.dams team, which also became champions in the christening season 2014/2015. In the fifth season (2018/19), the attractive championship is getting a new car (which will also be manufactured by SRT in the future), which will be even more aerodynamic, even lighter and even more efficient. Meet the daring Spark SRT05E racer.
Every eye has its own painter, they say, and in the most prestigious beauty pageant for Miss World, every year they choose a beauty who wins the hearts of the vast majority of the world's population. But appearance is not everything. Throughout the history of the competition, there have been girls who had something more, that "je ne sais quoi". Here are 15 of the most radiant crowned beauties who have received the flattering title of Miss World.
For the fifth time in a row, the best surfers in the world will gather at Rogla for the World Cup match. The caravan will be joined for the last time by the former snowboarding world champion Rok Flander, who is ending his rich career after 16 years. The Rogla 2017 Parallel Giant Slalom Snowboarding World Cup competition will be held on January 28, 2017.
Slovenia is shaking with jumping fever. On Friday, the first race in ski jumping in the new season (2016/17) is on the schedule, where Peter Prevc, who wrote a golden chapter in the history of ski jumping last season, is starting his title defense. In the dreamy past season, he not only jumped onto the jumping Olympus, he also conquered everything there was to conquer, and at the same time broke many records and raised the appetites of the already demanding Slovenian public, who ate out of the hands of the Slovenian eagles last season. The jumpers are ready for the new season, which starts with Friday's match in Kuusamo (November 25, 2016), followed by a new one on Saturday.
The football Champions League 2016/17 is starting. The new season of the strongest European club football competition will also have a strong Slovenian touch, as seven Slovenians will appear in the group stage, namely Jan Oblak, Kevin Kampl, Petar Stojanović, Adraž Šporar, Ažbe Jug, Miha Mevlje and Benjamin Verbič. Find out when they and their clubs will battle it out for a place in the last 16 and what the remaining 2016/17 Champions League fixtures are.
The ugliest dog in the world 2016 is... an old acquaintance or. an acquaintance. In the Californian city of Petaluma, the 28th competition for the ugliest dog in the world was held a few days ago, the guiding principle of which was that it's not the outer beauty that matters, but the inner beauty, as the organizers emphasize again and again. This time the (un)flattering title was won by little SweePee Rambo, the iron repertoire of the competition, who after years of trying finally managed to sit on the throne and become officially the ugliest dog in the world.
Do you know what is officially the best wine in the world 2016? This was recently announced at the most famous wine competition in the world, the Oscars for wines - Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), at which Slovenian wines have also been receiving high awards for many years. The best part of the news is that the winning wine only costs a couple of Euros!
EPICENTER LAN 10 is supposed to be the biggest LAN competition in Slovenia. The most prestigious gaming event in Slovenia will take place from July 22 to 24, 2016 in Šenčur, where, according to the organizers, more than 500 toys will compete in games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, League of Legends, Hearthstone, StarCraft 2, Street Fighter V and Pro Evolution Soccer. The event will also set a record in terms of cash fund.
Agart art is an international art competition of microbiologists, which took place for the first time this year, and microbiologists had to create their works of art from microbes! The competition was organized by the American Society for Microbiologists, and among the most interesting works we can also find a replica of Van Gogh's Starry Night, "drawn" with bacteria! And yes, the picture looks as phenomenal as it sounds!
When the word is applied to dogs, we usually talk about cute four-legged friends, and in the Californian city of Petaluma, where every year there is a competition for the ugliest dog in the world, it would be difficult to attribute such a quality to dogs. Nevertheless, it is a flattering title, not a "golden raspberry" among dog awards. This year, the ribbon for the officially ugliest dog in the world went to Quasi Modo, a mix between a pit bull and a shepherd. In addition to this sleepy dog, which resembles a hyena due to its curved back, which dogs made it to the shortlist for the ugliest dog in the world, check below.
At the most important event in the world of pasta, the World Pasta Championship, as many as 21 internationally renowned master chefs competed for the flattering title of world champion. Matjaž Cotič missed the first place by a hair, one could say by the thinnest of spaghetti, but he returned to Slovenia with an enviable 'silver medal'.











