Local sports events in the news for their really hilarious nature
Sports, as being an activity, has been associated with a lot of seriousness, focus and dedication with the sportsman. Team sports and also individual sports share the same amount of dedication and determination involved, that being the essence of champions and champion teams. True sportsmanship is actually a quality that people, and not just sportsmen, dream to possess on the playing field as well as in their respective personal lives.
But sports cannot be relegated only to the serious. These athletes in a number of times are the butt of jokes for their antics, their remarkably funny quotes or some bizarre activities which makes for quite a few seriously funny sports news. It truly is remarkable to observe a mind that is normally so strong, focused and channelized within the field just loose itself once off it. Sports news and other 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 reaches up to some hilarious and quite often bizarre sports competitions. There are numerous news providers who track down these seriously funny sports competitions and bring these 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 with a twist. The all male participants have 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 mobile phone and most 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 had to be married to the woman, but in modern times any suitable female can do provided she is above 17 years of age and weighs over 49 kg.
For any person in search of some action head to Pamplona in Spain because of their annual event, the Running of the Bulls! This sport involves a bull pursuing the vast number of participants through the narrow lanes of Pamplona for up to a kilometer. The chase ends eventually in the bullring where the bulls are left to look after themselves. Each and every year the crowds go crazy throughout this event ultimately causing some seriously funny moments.
For the compassionate that feel a little revolted because of the gory nature of 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 with the Nudes events. Quite like the Running with the Bulls, this event too demands people running in the winding streets of Pamplona; the sole catch is they are completely nude! A fitting reply, one can say, for the barbarity involved in bullfights.
A boat race would not be called hilarious. 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 on a dry river bed. That is so as Alice Springs has no active water body since it is very close to Central Australia. This seriously funny sports event has been doing news for its large boats that contain no bottom and sees the participants generating a mad dash for the finish line running inside these hollow boats.