When it comes to sports , if it involves a ball or a society , human beings will play it , and if it ’s on video , human being will watch it . Here are some of the most strange sports from around the globe .
1. Cheese Rolling
If you ’re a whiz at cheese rolling , you may want to head to Brockworth in Gloucestershire , England , at the annual Cooper ’s Hill Cheese Roll held each May . The ancient festival dates back hundreds of days and involve pushing and shoving a large , mellowed , seven- to eight - dog pound wheel of advanced Gloucestershire tall mallow downhill in a race to the bottom . With the wheel of Malva sylvestris reaching up to 70 miles per hour , runners chase , spill , and slide down the hill after their cheese but do n’t ordinarily catch up until the end . The victor gets to take home his or her high mallow , while the moon-curser - up get hard currency prizes .
2. Toe Wrestling
This piddling piglet conk to the World Toe Wrestling Championship hold annually in July in Derbyshire , England . contestant model confront each other at a " toedium " – a sports stadium for toe – and try on to push each other ’s bare foot off a diminished point of view called a " toesrack . " Three - clock time champion Paul Beech calls himself the " Toeminator . " Toe wrestling began in the town of Wetton in 1970 , and the international sport is regularise by the World Toe Wrestling Organization , which once give for Olympic status but was rejected .
3. Tuna Throwing
pop in Australia , tunny throwing ask contestants to gyrate a frozen tuna around their heads with a rope and then fling it like an Olympic cock ceramist . Since 1998 , the record bearer has been former Olympian hammering thrower Sean Carlin , with a tuna toss of 122 foot . With $ 7,000 in award money overall , the issue is part of Tunarama , an annual festival hold up in late January in Port Lincoln , South Australia . Animal rights activists will be pleased to know that the tuna fish are spoiled Pisces the Fishes that storage refuse to betray .
4. Pooh Sticks
Christopher Robin knows that pooh sticks is not a hygienics problem but rather a game played with Winnie the Pooh . The game consists of finding a stick , dismiss it into a river , and then seeing how long it take to get to the refinement line . There is even an one-year World Pooh Sticks Championship held in mid - March in Oxfordshire , England . single event winners welcome gold , Ag , and bronze medals , and a team effect has attracted competitors from Japan , Latvia , and the Czech Republic .
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5. Man Versus Horse Marathon
The Man Versus Horse Marathon is an one-year race between humans and horse - and - rider squad held in early June in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells . The event start in 1980 when a pothouse keeper catch two manpower debate which was fast in a tenacious race – man or horse . Slightly shorter than a traditional battle of Marathon , the 22 - mile course is filled with many natural obstacles , and horse win nearly every year . But in 2004 , Huw Lobb made account as the first runner to win the subspecies ( in 2 minute , 5 minutes , and 19 seconds ) , taking the £ 25,000 ( about $ 47,500 ) prize , which was the accumulation of 25 yearly £ 1,000 booty that had not been claimed . Apparently , the buck does n’t get to keep its winnings .
6. Bull Running
While bullfighting is popular in many countries , the sport of shit running – which should really be called bull’s eye outrunning – is jolly much possess by Pamplona , Spain . The result dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries as a compounding of festival honor St. Fermin and tauromachy . Every dawn for a week in July , the half - mile subspecies is on between six bulls and hundreds of hoi polloi . Most of the participants taste to get as close to the bull as possible , and many think it ’s good fate to meet one .
7. Tomato Tossing
love apple are n’t just for salads and sauce anymore . La Tomatina is a festival held in later August in the little town of Buñol , Spain , where approximately 30,000 multitude come from all over the world to pour one another with nearly 140 tons of overripe tomatoes . The yield fight dates back to the mid-1940s but was banned under Francisco Franco , then returned in the 1970s after his death . After two hours of tomato - tossing at La Tomatina , there are no winners or failure , only spot and sauce , and the cleanup begin .
8. Human Tower Building
If you enjoy watching cheerleaders form human pyramids , you ’ll love the castellers , people who compete to forge gargantuan human towers at festival around Catalonia , Spain . Castellers form a firm foundation of packed body , link arm and hands together in an intricate way that hold several tons and softens the fall in case the column crumble , which is not uncommon . Up to eight more stage of people are progress , each layer standing on the shoulder of the mass below . The top levels are made up of children and when complete , the castell resemble a human Leaning Tower of Pisa .
9. Wife Carrying Championship
During the Wife carry Championship , held yearly in Sonkajärvi , Finland , objector hold a adult female – it need n’t be their married woman – over an 832 - metrical foot course with various obstacles en route . put down the woman incurs a 15 - second penalty , and the first team to reach the conclusion job welcome the exalted booty – the weight of the " wife " in beer ! This bizarre event trace its origins to the 19th century when a local bunch of brigand normally stole woman from neighboring villages .
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