Professional sports are associated mostly with a lot of seriousness and competitiveness. Winning and losing could be called the major determinants of any sport with all of athletes competing for the winners spot. Not only do professional sports require commitment and organization they’re also categorized by their highly organized and skill driven nature. Sportsmen are required to represent the spirit of sportsmanship by being respectful of their competitors and of the sporting officials thereby reflecting the true nature in the sport being played.
However, this focused and serious arena of professional sports can also be a cauldron of countless amusing incidents as well bringing making these haloed sports celebrities a lot more real. There has been a number of instances where athletes or sports celebrities have been discovered saying dumb quotes that are enough to fill you with all your required dose of daily laughter each day. One does often wonder what makes a mind that is so channelized, so focused and so talented come up with something that is incredibly and so utterly dumb!
Simultaneously there are some very funny sports contests that occur across the world. These bizarre activities can vary from a wife carrying competition for the prize of beer to duck racing to the world coal carrying championships. The wife carrying championship is usually an annual event held in Finland in the month of July. The winner needs to cover a number of obstacles over land and water to win this event for the prize of a new cell phone and beer for the amount of the wifes weight!
Strangely enough, these funny sports have their own list of regulations as well. In the case of the wife carrying competition, the wife should be more than 17 years and should weigh over 49kgs. Dropping the wife or bouncing the wife does include a fine and having fun tops the charts! Funny list of rules
In Tasmania, the annual apple race is organized around the month of October every year. People actually gather together to view apples race down from the bridge at Hounville to the Houn river.
Among the list of craziest local sporting events might be the running of the bulls, held annually in Pamplona in Spain. The chase lasts nearly a kilometer with folks running ahead of a chasing bull through the Pamplonas narrow, winding lanes. This risky and crazy events attracts a massive crowd to this particular region every year and a number of participants do get seriously injured and sometimes killed while participating in this game.
Everyone has heard of duck racing. But a rubber duck race that raises $1 million for the aid of local charities? The Singapore Duck race is certainly one such crazy annual event which involves 85,000 rubber ducks contesting against one another across the Singapore river. These ducks are first adopted by people and after that thrown into the water. The 1st duck to travel downstream is considered the winner. Duck races also take place in the united kingdom. The Great British Duck Race is certainly one such event in the uk which takes place on the Thames River. The 2007 event broke the Singapore Duck Race record by racing 165,000 ducks across the River Thames.
Even though these events are showcased mostly in the local news, it is their popularity and simplicity that has made many of these funny sports famous and notable. At some level, it is perhaps, easier to get a good laugh from seeing a silly event like apple racing than taking notice of and pursuing the supposedly funny drunken brawls of famous sports celebrities that makes sports headlines.
