Ugh, take a whiff! What's that smell? It must be Sasha Miranda's shoes. Sasha, 11, just won the 22nd annual Odor Eaters International Rotten Sneaker Contest. Baseball, basketball and track practice in Sasha's hometown, Las Cruces, New Mexico, helped her sneaks reek their way to victory. Her size-four stink bombs "smell like dog droppings, and another smell I can't identify," she said. "They were my lucky shoes." Sasha won a $500 savings bond, fresh new Nikes and (thank goodness!) a year's supply of Odor Eaters. The champ offered scent-sible tips for stinking up your sneakers: "Run around in them, scrape your feet, do everything your mom tells you not to."

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April 4, 1997 World Report