Local sports events in news reports for their really hilarious nature
Sports, as being an activity, has been connected with a great deal of seriousness, focus and dedication with 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, aspire to possess on the playing field as well as in their respective personal lives.
But sports cannot be relegated merely to the serious. These sportsmen in a number of times are the butt of jokes for their antics, their remarkably funny quotes or some bizarre activities which makes for quite a few seriously funny sports news. It is remarkable to watch a mind that is normally so strong, focused and channelized within the field just loose itself once off it. Sports news and other entertainment providers have a field day airing these events and we, as audiences enjoy watching them.
Funny sports news will not just involve these funny antics but reaches up to some hilarious and quite often bizarre sports competitions. There are some news providers who track down these seriously funny sports competitions and bring it to their viewers.
The Finnish people take their beer seriously and in what way! They have developed a festival which is a walking competition with a twist. The all male players have to cover a 253.5m long course covered with obstacles over land and water while carrying their wife on their back!! The winner receives a mobile phone and even more importantly, the equivalent of his wifes weight in beer!
The participants ought to be careful of dropping or bouncing the wife as that features a fine. Traditionally the participants would have to be married to the woman, however in recent times any suitable female can do as long as she is above 17 years old and weighs more than 49 kg.
For the person in search of some action head to Pamplona in Spain for their annual event, the Running of the Bulls! This sport involves a bull pursuing the multitude of participants through the narrow lanes of Pamplona for up to a kilometer. The chase ends finally inside the bullring where the bulls are left to look after themselves. Each and every year the crowds go crazy during this event leading to some really funny moments.
For the compassionate who do feel a little revolted by the gory nature of the Running of 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 through the twisting streets of Pamplona; the sole catch is they are completely nude! An appropriate reply, someone can say, towards the barbarity involved in bullfights.
A boat race could hardly be called hilarious. However, 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 alright, but over a dry river bed. This is so as Alice Springs lacks the active water body as 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 making a mad dash to the finish line running inside these hollow boats.