Holly Gibbs
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first heard Jan 2025
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Global News Podcast · The Happy Pod: My best friend turned out to be my brother · 25 Jul 2026
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That's where competitors race back and forth across eight linked cedar logs floating in water.
She says she's been treated like a celebrity at the town this week and is keen to encourage new young competitors.
There are a lot of colleges across the US that have timber sports and they're teaching and getting, you know, men and women into the sport of lumberjacking.
I think that's so important.
The organisers say the number of female competitors in lumberjack sports has more than trebled in the past 30 years.
And while women have always taken part in the world championships, they were originally limited to just log rolling.
Getting them entry into other categories took time, as event director Samantha LaSalle explains.
They were saying, we can do more, we can do this event that the men have traditionally done, and more of them practiced and got competitors in it.
We said, you know what, there's enough girls that can do this and do this at a high level, and we need to allow them to do that just like the men do.
And as more take part and the competition increases, for now seasoned competitors like Carolina, it only serves to spur her on to train harder and keep up her record-setting streak.
Carolina ending that report by Rebecca Wood.
And that's all from The Happy Pod for now.
We'd love to hear from you.
As ever, the address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
The editor of this edition is Karen Martin.
I'm Holly Gibbs.
Until next time, goodbye.
I'm Holly Gibbs and in this edition, the couple who invited strangers round for dinner.
So now we have four friends.
That's a good feeling.
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