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<b>Wife carrying</b> is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective of this sport 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.</div>
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According to the rules, the two don’t really need to be married: “The wife to be carried may be your own, the neighbor’s, or you may have found her farther afield she must, however, be over 17 years of age.”</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>The objective -</b></span></span> The male/female team making it through the special obstacle track in the fastest time wins the day. The world champions receive the equivalent of the wife’s weight in beer, a bag full of wife-carrying products ,a statue with a wife-carrying motif and of course, world-wide fame. Prizes are also given to second- and third-place teams and for most entertaining couple, best costume and strongest carrier.</div>
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<b><i>It's a tribute to wife-carrying's popularity that it has attained a category in the Guinness Book of Records.</i></b><br />
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<i>The contest, which has been running since 1992 and apparently has as its inspiration yesteryear’s rather less savoury custom of pillaging wives from neighbouring villages, promises the chance to show off everything that’s manly about men, and also throws in the ultimate prize for the winning couple – the wife’s weight in beer! And given the women taking part must be at least seventeen years old and weigh a minimum of 49kg to qualify, that’s a lot of beer. </i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Now in Asia - </b></span></span>Ecorun India, a society for creating environmental awareness organized Wife Carrying Race in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, Asia on January 1, 2011. The event is called "<b>BHAARYAASAMETHAM</b>" roughly translated as 'with your wife', in the local language 'Malayalam'. The society plans on conducting more such events every year in India. Wife carrying in Asia is also called matukinina.</div>
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<i>The championships get a special mention on their own section of Sonkajarvi’s town web site, which even includes press clippings claiming the health benefits of wife carrying. The web site also carries directions for becoming a Master in Wife Carrying – of which one of the key requirements appears to be ‘eroticism’. This year’s competition takes place on 6th and 7th July.</i></div>
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Source : [<a href="http://blog.chillisauce.co.uk/win-your-wifes-weight-in-beer-finlands-world-wife-carrying-championships/" target="_blank">1</a>][<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_carrying" target="_blank">2</a>][<a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/july-4-is-finland-s-annual-wife-carrying-championship" target="_blank">3</a>]</div>
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Wife Carrying Championship - An Unusual Sport

Wife Carrying Competetion Wife carrying is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The obje...

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<b>Extreme Ironing (also called EI)</b>
 is an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an 
ironing board to a remote location and iron items of clothing. Extreme 
ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an 
extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt."<br />
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 can involve ironing on a mountainside, preferably on a difficult climb,
 or taking an iron skiing, snowboarding or canoeing. Beginners usually 
start extreme ironing in the safety of their back gardens, although some
 daring members have been known to go straight to the mountain. Despite 
it's superficial danger, extreme ironists always take numerous safety 
measures, including safety ropes, harnesses, spare irons and the like.<br />
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<u><b>History :</b></u>
  Extreme Ironing was first started in 1997 by Leicester man, Philip 
Shaw, when Philip decided to do his ironing in the back garden. Since 
then, extreme ironing has developed into a sport that has attracted and 
give attention around the world. Shaw came home from what he recalls as a
 hard day in a Leicester knitwear factory. Preferring the idea of an 
evening out rock climbing, he decided to combine the two activities and 
convert it into a new extreme sport.  <br />
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June 1999, Shaw, who uses the nickname "Steam", embarked on an 
international tour to promote the activity. The stops included  United 
States, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. An encounter with
 German tourists in New Zealand led to the formation of a group called 
"Extreme Ironing International" and the German Extreme Ironing Section 
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The
 "sport" gained international attention after a documentary entitled 
Extreme Ironing : Pressing for Victory, was produced for Britain's 
Channel 4 by Wag TV and From then it becomes the unusual competition of 
Extreme Ironing.<br />
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Unusual Competition of Extreme Ironing

Unusual Competition of Extreme Ironing photo credit Extreme Ironing (also called EI) is an extreme sport and a performance ar...

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