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How cup stacking got so popular in the U.S.

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Thousands of U.S. schools have their students race the clock to stack cups in gym class. Why? A former circus clown from Colorado named Bob Fox holds the key.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd uncovers the answers with Fox’s son, writer and sport stacking royalty, Kit Fox.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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