US presidents like to throw out the first pitch at baseball games, but Turkmenistan President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov takes sport to a whole new level, coming in first in a Turkmenistan car race today. Driving a Turkish-made Volkicar. In a race he wasn't even scheduled to enter. Well, that's the official story, anyway. The AP calls the race "apparently choreographed," the latest chapter in fitness-obsessed Berdymukhamedov's growing mythology. But winning a race probably comes easy to a man who just won re-election in February with 97% support. (More Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov stories.)