Amusing sports which make news from across the world
Professional sports are associated mostly with a lot of seriousness and competitiveness. Winning and losing can be called the major determinants of any sport with all athletes competing for the winners spot. Not only do professional sports demand commitment and organization they’re also categorized by their highly organized and skill driven nature. Sportsmen are required to represent the spirit of sportsmanship by being respectful of their competitors and of the sporting officials thereby highlighting the actual nature of the sport being played.
On the other hand, this focused and serious arena of professional sports is also a cauldron of several funny incidents as well bringing making these haloed sports celebrities much more real. There have been several instances where athletes or sports celebrities have been found announcing dumb quotes which are enough to fill you with your required dose of daily laughter each day. One does often wonder how does a mind that is so channelized, so focused and so talented think of something that is incredibly and so utterly dumb!
Simultaneously there are some very funny sports contests that occur across the world. These bizarre activities can vary from a wife carrying competition for the prize of beer to duck racing to the world coal carrying championships. The wife carrying championship is an annual event held in Finland in the month of July. The winner needs to cover a number of obstacles over land and water to win this event for the prize of a new cell phone and beer for the quantity of the wifes weight!
Strangely enough, these funny sports have their list of rules as well. In the case of the wife carrying competition, the wife should be more than 17 years and must weigh over 49kgs. Dropping the wife or bouncing the wife does add a fine and having fun tops the charts! Funny set of rules
In Tasmania, the yearly apple race is organized round the month of October every year. People actually gather together to view apples race down from the bridge at Hounville to the Houn river.
One of the craziest local sports entertainment could be the running of the bulls, held annually in Pamplona in Spain. The chase lasts nearly a kilometer with folks running ahead of a chasing bull through the Pamplonas narrow, winding lanes. This risky and crazy events draws in a huge crowd to this particular region each year and also a number of individuals get critically injured and sometimes killed while participating in this game.
Everyone has heard of duck racing. But a rubber duck race that raises $1 million for the aid of local charities? The Singapore Duck race is certainly one such crazy annual event that involves 85,000 rubber ducks contesting against each other across the Singapore river. These ducks are initially adopted by people and then placed in the water. The first duck to travel downstream is considered the winner. Duck races also occur in Britain. The Great British Duck Race is certainly one such event in Britain that takes place on the Thames River. The 2007 event broke the Singapore Duck Race record by racing 165,000 ducks over the River Thames.
Though these events are featured mostly in the local news, it is their popularity and simplicity that has made most of these funny sports famous and noteworthy. At some level, it’s perhaps, better to get a good chuckle from seeing a silly event like apple racing than taking notice of and pursuing the supposedly funny drunken brawls of well-known sports celebrities which makes sports headlines.