Funny sports which make news from across the world
Professional sports are related mostly with a lot of seriousness and competitiveness. Winning and losing can be called the major determinants of any sport with all of 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 expected to represent the spirit of sportsmanship by being respectful of their competitors and of the sporting officials thereby highlighting the true nature in the sport being played.
On the other hand, this focused and serious world of professional sports can also be a cauldron of countless amusing incidents as well bringing making these haloed sports celebrities much more real. There have been a number of occasions where athletes or sports celebrities have been discovered saying dumb quotes which are enough to fill you with all your required dose of daily laughter each day. One does often ponder how does a mind that is so channelized, so focused and so talented come up with a thing that is amazingly 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 that prize of beer to duck racing to the world coal carrying championships. The wife carrying championship is usually 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 mobile phone and beer to the amount of the wifes weight!
Strangely enough, these funny sports have their set of rules as well. In case of the wife carrying competition, the wife must be older than 17 years and must weigh over 49kgs. Dropping the wife or bouncing the wife does include a fine and having fun tops the charts! Funny list of rules
In Tasmania, the annual 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 sporting events could be the running of the bulls, held annually in Pamplona in Spain. The chase lasts almost a kilometer with people running in front of a chasing bull through the Pamplonas narrow, winding lanes. This risky and crazy events draws in a massive crowd to this particular region every year and also a number of participants get critically injured and quite often killed while participating in this game.
Everyone has heard about duck racing. But a rubber duck race that raises $1 million for the aid of local charities? The Singapore Duck race is one such crazy yearly event that involves 85,000 rubber ducks contesting against each other over the Singapore river. These ducks are first adopted by people and then thrown in the water. The first duck to go downstream is regarded as the winner. Duck races also take place in the united kingdom. The Great British Duck Race is one such event in Britain which takes place on the Thames River. The 2007 event broke the Singapore Duck Race record by racing 165,000 ducks across the River Thames.
Though these events are featured mostly in the local news, it is their popularity and simplicity that has made many of these funny sports famous and notable. At some level, it’s perhaps, easier to get a good laugh from seeing a goofy event like apple racing than taking notice of and pursuing the supposedly funny drunken brawls of well-known sports celebrities which makes sports headlines.