Runner Up Run Down, Over, and Out in Swedish Pushcar Finals:
Pushcar is not a sport for the faint-hearted. Not only are you required to propel your motor vehicle yourself, but your allowed, and even encouraged, to hit your competitors with your car. The Swedish Pushcar World Cup Finals saw the demise of former Swedish World Champion Jonas Höglund, competing for the SMHI team, when new Gold Medalist Thomas Andersson of the Vägverket team hit him from behind with his car and ran him down. "I knew Höglund wouldn't have enough left for the spurt, so I dropped back until the last 100 meters, conserving my strength, then sped up and nailed him," Mr Andersson explains to the World Swedish News. Mr Höglund and the SMHI team was awarded the Silver Medal, Mr Höglund posthumously.
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