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MOGUERIEC, France (AFP) ??” A French seaweed collector retained single of the world's lesser-known sporting titles at the weekend -- that of champion snail spitter, propelling the tiny creature a total of 938 meter (31 feet)

Alain Jourden, 43 beat back the challenge pos by means of 110 pretenders from 14 countries including Belgium, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden, if it were not that failed to surpass his acknowledge world distance record of 104 meter

"Wind conditions were not favorable," said undivided of the organizers of Sunday's result which drew 2,000 spectators to the tiny Brittany port of Mogueriec, located near the town of Roscoff