Superstitions and Junk Science...

There is no scientific evidence to back up most common superstitions. Obviously, walking under a ladder won't clinically pre-dispose you to horrible things, and spilling salt scientifically only means that you have less salt.

But you have to wonder about some things... like poor Perdita Felicien, and the notoriously unlucky number 13.

The Canadian runner was heavily favoured to win the Gold in today's 100 m hurdles event... but was assigned bib number 1313.

As most Canadians know by now, Felicien slipped and fell on the first hurdle.

I'm actually rather surprised that whoever is responsible for issuing bibs would even assign the number 1313.