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Wife Carrying

An extremely funny account of an espn writer entering the wife carrying championships:

Basketball scouts for its players on urban playgrounds. Baseball scouts for its players on the sandlots of the Dominican Republic. Wife carriers scout the fashion catwalks and the eating disorder wings of local hospitals. It's the only sport in which it's considered an unfair advantage to have an amputee for a partner.

But while you obviously want a light woman in this sport, the Sonkajarvi organizers have included a powerful incentive for her to weigh above the minimum:

The winning team earns the woman's weight in beer.

Link Here and Here (it's 2 pages)

posted by Edward Young @ 9:12 AM