Local sports events in news reports for their seriously funny nature
Sports, as an activity, has always been connected with a lot of seriousness, focus and dedication from the sportsman. Team sports as well as individual sports have the same degree of dedication and determination involved, that being the essence of champions and champion teams. True sportsmanship is a quality that men and women, and not merely sportsmen, dream to possess on the field as well as in their respective personal lives.
But sports cannot be consigned 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 that makes for some really funny sports news. It is amazing to watch a mind that is normally so strong, focused and channelized on the field just loose itself once off it. Sports news and various entertainment providers have got a field day airing these events and we, as audiences have a good time watching them.
Funny sports news will not just involve these funny antics but extends to some hilarious spessartnews and quite often bizarre sports competitions. There are some 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 which is a walking competition that has a twist. The all male participants have got to cover a 253.5m long course covered with obstacles over land and water while carrying their wife on their back!! The winner gets a cellphone and even more 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 would have to be married to the woman, but in modern times any suitable female can do as long as she’s above 17 years old and weighs over 49 kg.
For the person in search of action head over to Pamplona in Spain for their annual event, the Running with the Bulls! This sport involves a bull chasing the vast number of participants through the narrow lanes of Pamplona for up to a kilometer. The chase ends finally in the bullring where the bulls are left to fend for themselves. Each and every year the crowds go crazy during this event ultimately causing some really funny moments.
For the compassionate who do 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 of the Nudes events. Quite similar to the Running with the Bulls, this event too demands people running in the twisting streets of Pamplona; the sole catch is they are completely naked! An appropriate reply, one can say, towards the barbarity involved in bullfights.
A boat race could hardly be called hilarious. But not the Henley on Todd Regatta, an annual sports event held in Alice Springs. The Alice Springs version of the extremely English Henley on Thames regatta involves boating all right, but over a dry river bed. This is so as Alice Springs lacks the active water body since it is very near 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 to the finish line running inside these hollow boats.