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Shin-kicking champion aims for world domination despite breaking two toes

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A man broke two big toes on his way to being crowned the undisputed world champion of shin kicking after being convinced to enter the competition by his girlfriend.

Mike Newby, 33, who now trains to hold onto the coveted Cotswold Olimpick Games title by rapping his shins with a block of wood to gain strength wants to become the GOAT (greatest of all time) at the 17th century English folk sport.

The account director, who lives in Cheltenham with his girlfriend, Geo Legate, 26, came out on top of three gruelling bouts of the Gladitorial folk game just a few days after he and his partner took part in

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