The World's 100 Weirdest Sporting Events

The World's 100 Weirdest Sporting Events From Gravy Wrestling in Lancashire to Wife Carrying in Finland

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Publisher's Synopsis

When we think of the world's great sporting events, we tend to focus on spectacles such as the World Cup, the Olympics, the Derby, the Monaco Grand Prix or the University Boat Race. Yet there is also an alternative world of competition where participants risk life, limb and often dignity for meagre rewards in truly weird sporting pursuits. Step forward the Indonesian sport of sepak bola api, a variation of football in which the barefoot players kick a ball that is on fire; Germany's Mud Olympics, at which competitors play soccer, volleyball and handball while knee-deep in mud; yak racing from Mongolia; Oregon's Pig-N-Ford Races where drivers speed around the track while carrying a live pig under one arm; and Australia's variation of the Boat Race, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, where, instead of rowing, teams carry their boats along the dry bed of the River Todd.

Book information

ISBN: 9781472140494
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Robinson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 796.02
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xiii, 242
Weight: 322g
Height: 135mm
Width: 205mm
Spine width: 24mm