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Wife Carrying Championships
The 2006 North American Wife Carrying Championships at Sunday River Ski Resort, Maine. Winners received the wife's weight in beer, weight in money, and qualification for the world championships in Finland. More info at www.sundayriver.com
Tags: carrying, championship, event, funny, maine, race, river, sunday, wife
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The Wife Carrying Championships - Finland
The aim of this Finish Festival is to carry your partner over an obstacle course in the shortest time possible. Anything goes!
Tags: Bizarre, Carrying, Championships, Eccentrics, Finland, JWife, ourneyman, Pictures, Quirky
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Annual Wife Carrying Contest : 2008 edition
Stray Acting Child ! : http://www.StrayAC.com
06 July 2008 - It's the annual wife carrying races in Finland and husbands have been training hard for the event.
People from all over the world travelled to the country of the midnight sun to compete in the bizarre races in which husbands have to carry their spouses around an obstacle course.
Penny Tweedie reports.
SONKAJARVI, Finland 05 July 2008 (Reuters)-
Wife-carrying is one of a host of bizarre contests that Finns, who can tend to gloominess in the long winter dark, have devised for the scant months of summer when the sun hardly sets and people's mood turns frolicsome.
Forty-eight couples from 13 countries, including Kenya, Australia and Canada, gathered in the remote Finnish village to complete the track.
Estonia reigned...
Tags: athletics, body, championship, championships, coed, exercise, foreplay, husband, marriage, Olympics, paint, pool, Reuters, sex, water, wives
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Wife Carrying Championships
Wife carrying championships 2006 in Sonkajarvi/Finland
Tags: carry, championship, sports, wife
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Hong Kong holds a wife-carrying competition
CHAN: Hong Kong had its first wife-carrying championship to celebrate Valintine's Day. Strange as it sounds, this is actually a tradition that dates back to 19th century Finland when bandits stole women from neighboring villages. Let's see how it went over in Hong Kong.
STORY: It was a marriage of sport, fun and romance for the 15 couples who took part in the competition. The lovers -- young and old , hopped onto one another's backs hundreds of people looked on. The men came in everything from superhero outfits to Chinese wedding costumes. They dashed over obstacles
and scooped up roses while their wives held on to them.
The oldest contestants were 70-year old Wong Chi-hung and his 60-year old
wife, who've been married for 36 years.
The winners were Michael and Cora Fung, fittingly...
Tags: competition, culture, day, events, holds, Hong, Kong, news, ntdtv, Valentine's, wife-carrying
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Wife Carrying at the 4th Annual Viking Boat Races & Festival
Wife Carrying is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle track in the fastest time. The sport was first introduced at Sonkajärvi, Finland.
Tags: Boat, Carrying, Events, Races, Toronto, Viking, VikingBoat, Wife, Wife-Carrying, wifecarrying
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Wife carrying championships
If you want to win your body weight in beer, try the ancient Finnish sport of wife-carrying, which held its world championships this weeke
Tags: championships, Finland, itn, news, quirky, wife-carrying
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World wife-carrying championships
If you want to win your body weight in beer, try the ancient Finnish sport of wife-carrying, which held its world championships this weeke
Tags: Finland, Germany, itn, news, quirky, twig, wife, wife-carrying
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Wife Carrying Contest - Chinese style!
On Valentines day, we show that special someone how much we love them with chocolates and dinner out. Not in Hong Kong though!
Tags: carry, carrying, china, contest, hong, itn, kong, news, quirky, race, valentine, wife
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Wife Carrying 2008
The Rock Annual Valentine's Day Wife Carrying Competition
Tags: Carry, day, Radio, Rock, Valentine's, Valentines, Wife
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2007 Canadian Wife Carrying Championships
The 2007 Canadian Wife Carrying Championships as part of the Toronto Viking Boat Races & Festival on Toronto Island
Tags: 2007, Boat, Canada, Canadian, Carrying, Championships, festival, Races, Viking, VikingBoat, Wife, Wife-Carrying, WifeCarrying
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Canadian Finals Rodeo - Wife Carrying Contest
CISN intermission contest Saturday Night at the CFR
Tags: carry, carrying, CFR, contest, divorce, down, fireman, piggyback, race, radio, upside, wife
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Wife Carrying Contest in Lithuania 2008
Watch More at: http://www.game2p.com
Wife carrying is a very popular sport in Finland. The first wife carrying contest in Lithuania was held on the 10th of May, 2008.
Tags: 2008, arts, Carrying, commercials, Contest, entertainment, film, game, in, Lithuania, news, performing, short, video, Wife
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Amateur Wife-Carrying Contest
Demonstrating the popular inverted piggy-back hold style favored by the Estonians in the World Wife-Carrying Championships in Sonkajarvi, Finland.
Tags: finland, wife-carrying
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Ash & Aila at the Wife Carrying Championships 2008
Ash n Aila rippin' it up blighty style
Tags: 2008, aila, ash, bruce, carrying, davies, finland, sonkajarvi, suomi, tom, wife
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Keith Cardoza North America Wife Carrying Champion 2007
The epic duo Keith Cardoza of Northeastern University and Julia Stoner crushed the 8th Annual North American Wife Carrying Championship on October 6th at Sunday River in Maine.
This video is of his first run which landed him in second place overall of 40 teams. They won in the finals by 3/10ths of a second.
yeah, NU is sweet.
le'gus
Tags: 2007, american, carrying, championship, north, northeastern, river, sunday, wife
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Wife Carrying Championship Sprint Final
Sprint Final 2008
Tags: carrying, finland, sonkajarvi, suomi, wife
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The Wife Carrying Contest
Megan and The Strongest Man in the World race against the Wife Carrying Champions
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Irish Wife Carrying Championships 2008 Sneem Family Festival
Sneem, South Kerry Ireland host the first ever Irish Wife Carrying Championships This is a preview of the course, using virtual wives. :-)
Welcome to SNEEM! Sneem is a magic South Kerry village on the Ring of Kerry. Carry your wife to Sneem anytime for adventure and fun! See http://www.sneem.com
wife-Carrying evolved in Finnland, where men are still men and wives are still women. The Wife Carrying course is strictly regulated; 253.5 meters long, 2 dry obstacles and one water obstacle. The wife to be carried may be your own, the neighbor's or she may have been found farther afield; she must, however be over 18 years of age and be a minimum weight of 49 kilos. If she weighs less, she will be handicapped with a loaded rucksack to reach the minimum weight. The winner is the couple who...
Tags: carring, championships, Finnish, ireland, irish, kerry, micellaneous, premiere, preview, sneem, travel, virtual, wife
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World Wife Carrying Championships opening ceremony
Some highly patriotic flag waving from the elite athletes
Tags: 2008, aila, ash, ben, big, bruce, carrying, davies, finland, freeman, sonkajarvi, suomi, tom, wife, world
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Photo Gallery: A Not-So-Venerable Finnish Tradition
