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andydp
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 Posted: 07/03/05 - 17:34 Post subject: A Scandinavian sport combining beer, women and innuendo
Well if its a sport, lots of people will participate. Note: Dennis Rodman was the Emcee and that is the headline that is on the web site.
Estonians snatch world wife-carrying title again
04 July 2005
SONKAJARVI: Estonia reigned supreme once again in the wife-carrying world championship, as Margo Uusorg sprinted home to win the Baltic country's eighth straight title in the offbeat competition.
Forty couples from 10 countries gathered in the remote Finnish village of Sonkajarvi to complete a 253.5-metre-long obstacle course. A man must carry a woman, not necessarily his spouse, through a pool and across hurdles. (Hint: Keep this in mind)
The few rules require a minimum weight of 49kg for the "wife" and state that all contestants must have fun.
Uusorg, 25, completed the course in 59 seconds with friend Egle Soll, 23, clinging to his back in the trademark "Estonian Carry" – hanging upside down with her legs clenched around his neck. {<<What happens when they get to the pool ?}
Uusorg's prizes were his partner's weight in beer and a high-tech mobile phone. (This is a GREAT contest)
It was his fourth victory, and the third in a row for his family. Brother Madis won in 2004.
"We don't have a secret, we just try to run fast and hope the legs work," said Uusorg, who works in Stockholm as an embassy driver. He warned that the family would be even stronger contenders next year when brother number three, Urmet, takes part.
"He holds the Estonian record for the 800 metres," Uusorg said.
Uusorg and Soll received first prize from the hands of visiting U.S. basketball legend Dennis Rodman, who declined to compete, saying he lacked both a wife and proper training.
"I'm not in shape ... It could hurt the back," said the former Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons forward. But he promised to train for next year.
"I'll carry the kids around the house or something," he said.
Some 9000 people came to view the event, set deep in forests and lakes a couple of hours' drive from the Arctic Circle. It began in 1992 as a purely Finnish contest based on local legend, according to which wife-stealing was once commonplace in the region.
Ed Note: Based on the fact there appear to be copious amounts of beer involved, we need to set up a RR team to compete next year.
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 07/05/05 - 16:44 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | | There's plenty of innuendo and beer here, but no one is interested in fielding a team... |
naw, not a team, cuz then they make rules and won't let ya do what you want to do. it's proabably piss water beer, and that might also be whats in the water hazzard too. would you like to be the head down in the piss water water filled hazzard?
i bet they require clothes too, what fun then?  I say we just get some pick-up versions started instead. 
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