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"       Lumberjacks and limberjills worldwide made the annual trek to Hayward, Wis., this summer to compete in the Lumberjack World Championships, striving for new heights, records, and personal glory. They brought with them an arsenal of axes, hot saws with snowmobile engines, and cleats for quick footwork on wood climbing and running. &amp;quot;This is truly the Olympics of the Forest,&amp;quot; said Diane McNamer, the biggest cheerleader and organizer for the event. We were on hand to capture the video above. It was a crazy event. Speed pole climber Stirling Hart broke the world record for the 90-foot pole climb in 20.96 seconds\u2014many people can&amp;#039;t move that fast laterally without the element of gravity. After rising in the ranks over the past few years, 18 year-old Gretchen Greene bested her coach to take home the world title. Seventy-four year-old Gus Carlson took home top honors in the Masters&amp;#039; Underhand Chop, drawing rave praises from an audience that braved cold winds and heavy rain to see these rock stars at work. Abbey Hoeschler got her twinkle toes from her mother Judy, a seven-time world champion in logrolling. Along with Shana Martin, they are at the forefront of logrolling\u2014parlaying their love of the sport into a world-class training facility with synthetic logs inspiring a new generation of youthful logrollers. (These hallow logs are made out of recycled high-density polyethylene and can weigh up to 450 pounds when filled with water.) The Lumberjack World Championships bring together a lot of gutsy, gregarious and insightful competitors with an unbreakable will to win. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got roots in this sport,&amp;quot; lumberjack Darren Hudson professed. &amp;quot;The sport here is a dying art. The guys that hang on to it have a great passion that has been passed on through their families, right. The only ones that are going to dedicate themselves to it, they have to have a connection to it and it has to run deep in their souls.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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