Higginbotham Christmas "Retreat" Found

Following weeks on intensive investigative research, Quad Manager and Reporter Eileen Hipps has identified the secret location of the Higginbothams' planned hiding place during the 2008 Quadrathlon.

Organizer Dean Higginbotham was unavailable for comment on the family's plan to hide, but has expressed concern with the renaming of the 2008 "Circle of Fear", to the more appropriate "Circle of Higginbothams."

The remote Montana cabin has been unused since the incarceration of its previous tenant.

Quad Medical Advisor Credited with Classification of New Social Disorder

Following years of intensive research, Quadrathlon Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Annie Cooper has successfully classified a new branch of performance-based social anxiety disorder, now known as Quadophobia: the irrational fear of being publicly humiliated by superior Quad athletes.

“This is a legitimate medical condition, and not one to be taken lightly,” said Cooper in a recent statement. “Symptoms include regular appearances in the Circle of Fear, feigned injuries immediately before competitions, and general malaise.”

In response, two-time runner-up Des Carroll was quoted as saying, “If phobias are irrational fears, then these people don’t have a phobia, because the probability they will be embarrassed is quite high.”