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People watch a visualization of the sperm race in Los Angeles last week (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s the one thing everyone on planet Earth’s done once and only once: win a sperm race.<\/p>\n

So when two students set out to repeat the achievement in a ‘live’ race last week, it turned out to be a blockbuster event, attracting huge numbers of spectators and cash bets of up to thousands of dollars each. <\/p>\n

But doubts have since been cast as to whether the contest was all it was made out to be.<\/p>\n

The contest, held at the Los Angeles<\/a> Center Studios on Friday, was billed as a dash between two sperm along a ‘microscopic racetrack’ ending at a finish line.<\/p>\n

But a renowned fertility doctor has since said that videos purporting to show this ‘sperm racing’ could not be footage of real human swimmers.<\/p>\n

‘I look at sperm all day under the microscope and these are not human sperm,’ said Dr Steven Palter, medical director of Gold Coast IVF in New York. <\/p>\n

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USC student Tristan Milker, 20, beat 19-year-old UCLA student Asher Proeger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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