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“I saw an attempted come-back around 1990. The had a weird track, something like a figure-8 with a jump.”

- I watched it a few times on TV. The rules seemed to call for some of the girls to act as blockers to prevent someone on the other team taking the lead while assisting someone on their own team to come first. My impression was that it was much like professional wrestling, made more interesting for the men in the audience in that it called for the girls to have “cat fights”.
There seemed to be a lot of pulled punches, theatrical landings, howls of pain and much spectacular flying over the railing, but I don’t ever remember anyone being seriously bloodied. And, like wrestling, I suspect the matches were scripted and the winners predetermined.