Saturday, May 31, 2014

Co-champions crowned in spelling bee for the first time in 52 years...

After a heated competition Thursday night, two young men — Ansun Sujoe and Sriram Hathwar — were declared co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee for the first time since 1962.

Speller Gokul Venkatachalam, of Chesterfield, Mo., was one of three finalists until he misspelled the word “Kierkegaardian.”

Speller Sriram Hathwar, of Painted Post, N.Y., almost lost on the word “corpsbruder.”

But Ansun Sujoe, of Fort Worth, Texas, then misspelled “antigropelos,” meaning waterproof leggings, which gave Hathwar his second chance.

Hathwar was able to spell “skandhas” correctly, and then Sujoe spelled “Hyblaean” right. More + photos...

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