The IAAF World Race Walking Challenge is a race walking contest organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations. The athletes accumulate points in three specific racewalk meets during the season.
Famous quotes containing the words world, race, walking and/or challenge:
“In a world of universal poverty
The philosophers alone will be fat
Against the autumn winds
In an autumn that will be perpetual.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of McDonalds, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.”
—Alice Thompson (b. 1963)
“People seek a challenge just as fire seeks to flame.”
—Chinese proverb.