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EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS EUROPE
Most events and championships are well known and practiced all over
the world. However, here in Europe, we have some events you probably
NEVER HEARD OF, but it doesn’t mean that they are less popular or
entertaining!
You all experienced the moment when you are dancing in the club with your
friends and a rock song comes on. You take your air guitars (or your friends’
leg) and you start rocking it out.
In Finland, this is NOT JUST A
DANCE MOVE, but every August
there is a world championship
organized in the place Oulu. The
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championship is not only meant
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for entertainment and fun, but
the organization also wants to
share an important message to
the audience: ‘Make air, not war’.
You may or may not have seen the next extraordinary event on your news
feed at Facebook. In Finland, they carry their wives over multiple obstacles
during a race in the shortest
time possible. The winner
receives HIS WIFE’S WEIGHT IN
BEER. The world championship
of ‘wife-carrying’ is held in
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Sonkajärvi. All the contestants
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have different strategies of
carrying their wife. Curious?
Here is an impression.
Smigus-dyngus, which is better known as ‘Wet Monday’ is the ultimate
water fight. In Poland and Ukraine, they celebrate Easter Monday with
MASSIVE WATER
FIGHTS.
The participants are mostly
residents and use water
balloons, water pistols and
buckets to splash each other.
You can see how wet it gets
here:
If you are a big fan of cheese, you would go pretty far for a tasty bite! In
England however, they have
taken the love of cheese to the
next level. In Gloucester, they
organize
CHEESE-CHASING
RACES, with the cheeses rolling
down-hill. It is hosted on Spring
Bank Holiday, which is the last
Monday of May. Here you can
see the cheeses (and most of
the people) rolling around.
It takes a lot of training and
practice to participate in this
next championship! Finger
pulling or ‘Fingerhakeln’ is a
contest held in the Alps. Men
get dressed in their traditional
Tiroler outfits to do some
serious FINGER PULL-UPS! To
win the contest you need to pull
the other contestant across the
table by only using your finger,
as you can see here:
Written by: Maxime Lawende
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