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Quadrobic panic
麻豆官网首页入口 Trending investigates why running on all fours is being cracked down on in Russia.
There鈥檚 a moral panic in Russia and several former Soviet states about a craze in which teenagers and children dress up as animals and walk on all fours like their favourite animals. In one TikTok video, a group of youngsters are seen scampering across Moscow鈥檚 Red Square wearing fox masks and tails. Politicians and religious leaders have warned the trend is a threat to civilised values and a cover for LGBT and western ideology. Legislation is now being considered to ban quadrobics and fine or arrest parents of enthusiasts. But quadrobics has a longer history as a form of exercise -we speak to the pioneering Japanese athlete who holds the world record for covering 100m on all fours in 15.7 seconds which he set in 2015.
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