(<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/josa/171520601/" target="_blank">Josa Jr</a>/flickr)
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The Viral Sport

June 08, 2007

Surfing has films, skateboarding has VHS tapes, and parkour has the internet. After a few clips of David Belle leaping around the French suburbs made their way to the internet, a sport was accidentally born. New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson explains how parkour managed to be the first sport to go viral.

Our favorite Parkour clip.

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