Wednesday, August 1, 2012

USA - Voice of America: Tractor Pulling Evolves into Multi-Million-Dollar Sport

USA - Voice of America
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Tractor Pulling Evolves into Multi-Million-Dollar Sport
Aug 1st 2012, 14:51

CHAPEL HILL, Tennessee — Americans have a knack for turning even the simplest tasks into a competition. Tractor pulling, for example, has evolved from a barnyard contest to determine which farmer had the most powerful draft horses or tractor into a multi-million-dollar sport, to see which machine can drag a weighted sled the farthest. One of the sport's top contests takes place in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, a quiet little southern town of just 1,200 people. However, for that single weekend ...

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