Brian Habana (SA Rugby star) races a cheetah for charity.
Brian Habana, South Africa’s fast running (11sec for 100m) sweetheart of Rugby, recently raced a cheetah for charity, you can see the video on CNN.
They had to bring in a Hollywood stunt team to stage the event, and posted animal wranglers armed with tranq guns, all along the course to prevent the cheetah nibbling on Habana’s throat.
They used a leg of lamb tied to a teddy bear, to make the cheetah run and distract from Habana’s ankles.
Cheetahs can hit 70 mph and do 0-60 in 3 sec, so it was no surprise the cheetah won, but it wasn’t a whitewash. (Brian had a 30m head start)
The charity is for cheetah awareness, hoping to prevent the seemingly inevitable extinction of this glorious animal. Cheetah’s are highly inbred and have virtually no genetic diversity. A huge amount of management is required to keep it in existence. Read here.
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go habban we luv u!!
[...] Bryan Habana’s 8 tournament tries is joint record with Jona Lomu. Dazzling the rugby world with his ridiculous speed. [...]
habana is the slowest man ever to walk the earth shayanul is fasta than him
habana is the slowest man ever to walk the earth ps the chhetah was probably disabled
i h8
ps the chhetah was probably disabled
i h8 america
is the man with the with the gren toe
haha habana is fast m8 bet he faster dan da dik ed ure ona bout
and as u herd if the cheetah was disable ye he wud of limped coz me dad had 4 cheetahs u lil dik ps
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That event was really nice. It’s for a good cause and I hope people will cooperate to ma ke the campaign successful.