Wok racing
Another brilliant invention from the Germans. Wok racing
is nothing more than its name suggests: racing down an
bobsled track with modified Chinese woks. Competitions
are there for one-person-woksleds and four-person-woksleds, the latter using four woks per sled. However, public
wok racing is only practiced once a year in the Wok World
Championships. Okay, we have to admit that this sport is
mostly practiced by b-celebrities... Allthough some professional athletes were more than willing to participate as
well: what about the Jamaican professional bobsled team?!
Skijoring
According to the ‘reliable’ source Wikipedia, skijoring is pronounced /‟ski r‟w/ (we can’t wait for you actually trying
to pronounce this). Whatever it is called, it is a collective noun
for persons on ski’s getting pulled by a horse, a motor vehicle
or dog(s). There are no requirements for ‘equipment’ other than
the desire to run down a trail, which is quite normal for leashed
dogs and horses in such environment. The longest race is a
track of 440 kilometers held in Russia. Now that’s quite a pull!
Broomball
This sounds like a sports played on Hogwarts, right?
Maybe something like Muggle Quidditch? Broomball
is nothing like that, at all. The ice-game is played in a
hockey rink, where two teams of six players try to score
more than the opponent. making use of the same rules
as ice-hockey. So what’s different? Of course, that is the
broom: a wooden shaft with a rubber head shaped like
a regular broom.