World's largest fun run returns to Sydney with passion and vitality

STORY: World's largest fun run returns to Sydney with passion and vitality DATELINE: Aug. 15, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:53 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the City2Surf STORYLINE: After two years of going virtual, the world's largest fun run, the City2Surf, returned to Australia's Sydney on Sunday. Since its inauguration in 1971, City2Surf has transformed from a humble, local road race to the world's largest fun run, attracting not only athletes but also ordinary people seeking for fun. Just as he did every year, 85-year-old Bruce Shying woke up in the early hours of the morning before he, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren all piled onto the train for the city. "I get to Sutherland railway station at around six o'clock in the morning. By the time you get to Town Hall the train is packed with people all going to run," he told Xinhua. He described the Sunday morning, as trains fill up at each stop and the carriage fills with the smell of liniment, t

Foreign tourists undeterred by eruptions at Hakone resort outside Tokyo

Foreign tourists undeterred by eruptions at Hakone resort outside Tokyo

A couple from Spain study their map outside Odakyu Electric Railway's Hakone-Yumoto Station to plan their sightseeing route in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on July 1, 2015. Many foreign tourists do not appear as worried as local visitors shying away from the famous hot spring resort town following volcanic eruptions there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Former teacher runs school for kids shying away from class

Former teacher runs school for kids shying away from class

HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Japan - Yoshitoshi Ameya (far right) and students of his free school, ''Tsukuru Mura (creating village),'' practice an opera entitled ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' at the school in the city of Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kyodo)