It's a bird... it's a train... China pigeon racers cause flap with rail ruse

The court also fined Gong 30,000 yuan and Zhang 20,000 yuan, Legal Daily said, adding that they also broke competition rules by using older pigeons instead of one-year-olds. The two men went to great lengths to beat the opposition in the race in April 2017 from the city of Shangqiu in the province of Henan to Shanghai on China's east coast, a distance of about 750 kilometres (450 miles).

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