Local sports events in the news for their really funny nature
Sports, as being an activity, has always been associated with a great deal of seriousness, focus and dedication with the sportsman. Team sports as well as individual sports have the same degree of dedication and determination involved, that being the essence of champions and champion teams. True sportsmanship is actually a quality that people, and not merely sportsmen, dream to possess on the playing field plus in their respective personal lives.
But sports cannot be consigned merely to the serious. These athletes at a number of times are the butt of jokes with regard to their antics, their amazingly funny quotes or some bizarre activities which makes for some really funny sports news. It truly is amazing to observe a mind that is normally so strong, focused and channelized on the field just loose itself once off it. Sports news and various entertainment providers have got a field day broadcasting these events and we, as viewers have a good time watching them.
Funny sports news does not just involve these funny antics but extends to some hilarious and quite often bizarre sports competitions. There are some news providers who uncover these seriously funny sports competitions and bring it to their viewers.
The Finnish people take their beer seriously and in what way! They have come up with a festival that is a walking competition that has a twist. The all male participants have got to cover a 253.5m long course covered with obstacles over land and water while hauling their wife on their back!! The winner gets a cellphone and even more importantly, the equivalent of his wifes weight in beer!
The participants have to be careful of dropping or bouncing the wife as that includes a fine. Traditionally the participants would have to be married to the woman, however in modern times any suitable female can do provided she’s above 17 years old and weighs over 49 kg.
For the person in search of some action head over to Pamplona in Spain because of their annual event, the Running of the Bulls! This sport involves a bull chasing the multitude of participants in the narrow lanes of Pamplona for nearly a kilometer. The chase ends finally inside the bullring where the bulls are left to look after themselves. Each and every year the crowds go crazy during this event ultimately causing some seriously funny moments.
For the compassionate that feel a little revolted by the gory nature with the Running with the Bulls event comes a compassionate alternative. The Festival of San Fermin is commemorated on a yearly basis with the thrilling Running of the Nudes events. Quite similar to the Running of the Bulls, this event too demands people running in the twisting streets of Pamplona; the only catch is that they are completely naked! An appropriate reply, one can say, for the barbarity involved in bullfights.
A boat race would not be called funny. But not the Henley on Todd Regatta, an annual sports event held in Alice Springs. The Alice Springs version of the very English Henley on Thames regatta involves boating all right, but over a dry river bed. That is so as Alice Springs lacks the active water body as it is very close to Central Australia. This seriously funny sports event has been in the news for its large boats that contain no bottom and sees the participants generating a mad dash to the finish line running inside these hollow boats.