Egyptians are into some unusual sports...and are very good at them, apparently. Egypt’s national speedball team snatched all gold medals at the 30th edition of the Speedball World Championship this week, Ahram Online reports. We beat France in both the single- and double-match edition of this game, which is basically a lazy version of tennis or squash and involves players using a racket to hit a ball tethered to a pole by a string (watch here, runtime: 0:45). Meanwhile, 37-year-old Ashraf Mahrous hosted a pro wrestling event in Ismailia that attracted thousands of spectators. Mahrous is also the founder of the Egyptian Arab Federation of Professional Wrestlers. Reuters has the story.

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