Estonian Wins Wife-Carrying Championship
“Estonians took gold and silver at the world wife-carrying championships in Finland on Saturday, defying rain and exhaustion to stumble along a path with women clinging upside-down to their backs.
They were among 44 couples from 12 countries competing in the annual event in Sonkajarvi, central Finland…
Couples race along a 250-metre track, tackling a pool and several hurdles, with the men carrying the women on their backs.”
Quote from Reuters
It’s not surprising that this race took place in Finland, and not in the politically-correct United States. If this competition were held in an American city, politicians, pundits and professional demonstrators would be up in arms.
Women are not a burden! Women are not akin to a sack of potatoes! A woman is not an albatross around a man’s neck.
I think we should just lighten up; men are physically stronger than women and the race would last all of three seconds if the women had to carry their spouses on their backs.
American men should be glad that the wife-carrying championship is not held in our land of milk and honey and gluttony.
“Bubba, why don’t you want us to enter the wife-carrying championship? Do you think my butt is too big?”
“Of course not Sugarplum! But I think it would be more fun if we went to that new all-you-can-eat restaurant.”
The following quote from Reuters:
“Estonian Madis Uusorg finished first, in a time of 61.7 seconds, despite having Inga Klauson on his back upside-down with her legs around his neck.
The winning couple received plasma televisions and Klauson’s weight, 49 kilograms, in beer.”
This contest really is male-centric; a couple of plasma TV’s and a keg of beer! Does it get any better than that?
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