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Article Title: Three and a Half Ton of Bull
Festival Name: San Fermin - Running of the Bulls
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Party, Sport - Bizarre
My stomach was churning, my palms sticky, my heart smashing at the inside of my ribcage. I put on a brave face. Strange to think that I'd paid to be here.
Article Title: Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling
Festival Name: Cheese Rolling
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Traditional
I never expected to spend my May Bank Holiday weekend as a participant in one of Europe's wackiest and most dangerous events, but there I was, perched atop a huge, steep, bumpy hill in Gloucestershire as an entrant in the third race of the day, about to throw myself down after a piece of rolling cheese.
Article Title: Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire
Festival Name: Cheese Rolling
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Harvest
Wherever it's origins it's hard to argue that cheese rolling is a sport for the outrageously courageous or at least the dangerously demented. Contestants in the Cooper's Hill event (between Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham in the Cotswolds) on the last Monday in May, stand precipitously at the top of a 300 yard hill, that maintains a gradient of two in one for the most part whilst a Master of Ceremonies counts them down.
Article Title: Calcio Storico
Festival Name: Calcio Storico
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Sport - Football, Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre
Steeped in almost 500 years of tradition and described loosely as a mix between football and rugby - with a good dose of bare-knuckle boxing added to the mix - Calcio Storico is not a game for those who flinch at the site of blood.
Article Title: Irish Road Bowling
Festival Name: Irish Road Bowling
Festival Country: Ireland
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Sport - Ball
They call it "bowling," yet it has nothing to do with glossy white pins, oiled wooden lanes, or shoes, colorfully designed for humiliation, that have been worn by a dozen other strangers that day. Welcome to the wacky world of Irish Road Bowling.
Article Title: World Championship Rotary Tiller Race
Festival Name: World Championship Rotary Tiller Race
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Sport - Motor Sport
According to the PurpleHull Pea Festival in Emerson, Arkansas (population 359), the Weyerhaeuser 200 World Championship Rotary Tiller Race is the "highlight of the tiller-racing season." Considering it's the only tiller race around, the "Tiller Thriller" is indeed a highlight.
Article Title: Mower Racing
Festival Name: Mower Racing World Championships
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Sport - Motor Sport
An English rally-car racer, frustrated by the rising costs of his sport, debuted the event in 1973: Lawn-mower racing offers an inexpensive, accessible event with no lingering misgivings about whether or not to bag your clippings.
Article Title: Outhouse Racing
Festival Name: Outhouse Classic
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Community
With the advent of indoor plumbing, traditional outhouses suffered a tragic fate: They were mounted on skis and pushed down a hill - welcome to the wacky world of outhouse racing
Article Title: Wife Carrying
Festival Name: Wife Carrying World Championships
Festival Country: Finland
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Party
At the Wife Carrying World Championships held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, it's the husband who does the schlepping - the wife holds on for dear life - across a course that's over two-and-a-half football fields in length and punctuated with sand, hurdles, water obstacles, and gravel pits
Article Title: Toe Wrestling
Festival Name: World Toe Wrestling Championships
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
Every year, competitors from as far as the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany travel to the Bentley Brook Inn in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, for the world's least furtive and most aggressive game of footsie: The World Toe Wrestling Championship
Article Title: Elephant Polo
Festival Name: Elephant Polo World Championships
Festival Country: Nepal
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Animal
This sport, played exclusively in four countries - India, and the three-members of Elephant Polo Association: Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Nepal - presents all the challenges of pony polo, plus plenty of problems particular to playing perched upon pachyderms.
Article Title: Shrovetide Football
Festival Name: Shrovetide Football
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Party
Imagine an NFL football game. Now, round out that ball, lose the shoulder pads, and add a few hundred or even a thousand players to each team. Okay, now move the end zones three miles apart, and dam a river at the 50-yard line. Now you're ready for some Royal Shrovetide Football
Article Title: World Sauna Championships
Festival Name: World Sauna Championships
Festival Country: Finland
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
The best competitions make leisure into sport, like turning an afternoon of watching flicks into a movie marathon. In Finland, where there are 1.5 million saunas for 5 million people, organizations of World Sauna Championships did just that with the first competition in 1999.
Article Title: Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival
Festival Name: Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Winter
No trip to Colorado would be complete without attending the strangely-bizarre, Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival in Nederland held annually in March
Article Title: World Pillow Fighting Championships
Festival Name: World Pillow Fighting Championships
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
Anyone over the age of 14 can enter as long as they leave their maturity outside the arena. Competition begins by straddling a slippery wet pole suspended over a pit of mud.
Article Title: World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race
Festival Name: World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race - A kinetic sculpture is an imaginative, often wacky - but always ludicrous - contraption designed to travel along an obstacle course on land, through mud, and over deep harbor waters
Article Title: Roach Racin'
Festival Name: World Championship Cockroach Racing
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, National, Bizarre
Only in Australia would they celebrate their national holiday by racing cockroaches. Yes, that's right I'm talking about those pooey brown, hairy legged, skin crawling, under the fridge indulgers and lights out kitchen partiers that infest much of the land Down Under.
Article Title: Santa Run
Festival Name: Santarun
Festival Country: Wales
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Christmas
Surreal was not the right word. The sea of crimson that stretched behind me deserved something more than that. This was more of a crazed hallucinogenic trip, a dream that I could wake up from at any second. This was either the work of a madman or a genius. But, as they say, 'when in Rome...'
Article Title: Siena Palio
Festival Name: Siena Palio
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Sport - Equestrian, Sport - Bizarre, Traditional
It was Palio, the biggest event in a Sienese year. When the local contrada's (districts) take to the track with their finest horses and race for a coveted silk banner. When horses become Gods, passions are high and the square fills with the excitement of a race for glory.
Article Title: Bathtubs on the River
Festival Name: International Regatta of Bathtubs - La Regate des Baignoires
Festival Country: Belgium
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
The hot sun of a mid-August day beats down on a motley flotilla as it makes it way down the River Meuse through the town of Dinant, Belgium. One of Europe's lesser-known festivals, La Regate des Baignoires, the International Regatta of Bathtubs, was, as the local tourist board cheerfully admits, a promotional stunt dreamed up to bring visitors to this sliver of a town wedged between steeps cliffs and the Meuse River about an hour from Brussels.
Article Title: Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival
Festival Name: Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Party
Whilst travelling through Central Queensland we heard of the upcoming Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival and felt we just had to be there. We made a dash to Charleville risking life and limb, travelling at night through the kangaroo infested outback.
Article Title: Camel Wrestling
Festival Name: Camel Wrestling Championship
Festival Country: Turkey
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Sport - Combat
While the Spanish have bullfights, and the Italians cockfights, and the English go hunting with hounds, the Turks have camel wrestling.
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