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Can you spell co-champions? National Spelling Bee ends in a tie

by Joe Heim

All sorts of history was made at the National Spelling Bee on Thursday night.

Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam duked it out to a tie and were named co-winners of the annual contest. It marked the second year in a row that co-champions were named and only the fifth time in the history of the bee.

Read the rest of the story at The Washington Post.

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