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| US boy wins smelly trainer glory | US boy wins smelly trainer glory |
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| There is something rotten in the state of... Vermont. | There is something rotten in the state of... Vermont. |
| A seven-year-old US boy has smelt his first whiff of success - for owning America's most malodorous trainers. | A seven-year-old US boy has smelt his first whiff of success - for owning America's most malodorous trainers. |
| Joshua Boothe wafted off competition from six other stinky shoe-owners in the 34th annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest in Vermont. | Joshua Boothe wafted off competition from six other stinky shoe-owners in the 34th annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest in Vermont. |
| As well as winning a golden trophy, an all-expenses trip to New York and a year's supply of Odor-Eaters, Joshua took home a cheque for $2,500 (£1,700). | As well as winning a golden trophy, an all-expenses trip to New York and a year's supply of Odor-Eaters, Joshua took home a cheque for $2,500 (£1,700). |
| The Utah-born boy did not say whether the money would be used to replace his old trainers. | The Utah-born boy did not say whether the money would be used to replace his old trainers. |
| Those will now be enshrined for posterity in the Odor-Eater Hall of Fumes in Montpelier, Vermont, which has been labelled the "Rotten Sneaker Capital of the World". | Those will now be enshrined for posterity in the Odor-Eater Hall of Fumes in Montpelier, Vermont, which has been labelled the "Rotten Sneaker Capital of the World". |
| Olfactory Adjudicators | Olfactory Adjudicators |
| The competition brought together the seven regional champions of plimsoll pong - aged between seven and 15 - to stink it out. | |
| They paraded their filthiest footwear in front of a panel of judges that included a Nasa chemical specialist and a Brown University professor of smell. | They paraded their filthiest footwear in front of a panel of judges that included a Nasa chemical specialist and a Brown University professor of smell. |
| The olfactory adjudicators were looking out for the conditions of the trainers' sole, tongue, toe and laces, but it was the cheesy smell of the shoes that took the biscuit. | The olfactory adjudicators were looking out for the conditions of the trainers' sole, tongue, toe and laces, but it was the cheesy smell of the shoes that took the biscuit. |
| The competition was sponsored by Odor-Eaters, a manufacturer of deodorant products for shoes and feet. | The competition was sponsored by Odor-Eaters, a manufacturer of deodorant products for shoes and feet. |