This sport was inspired by an ancient Finnish tradition in which a man courted a woman by running to her village, picking her up and carrying her away. In the modern sporting version, the man has to carry the woman along an obstacle course without her feet touching the floor. There is a clear set of rules. The track has to be 253.5 metres long and have one water and two dry obstacles.There are several ways of carring the woman including piggyback, fireman´s lift (over the shoulder) or Estonian'style(the wife hangs upside down with her legs around around the husband´s shoulder and holds onto his waist). Whoever completes the course in the fastest time wins the trophy(but no necessarily a wife these days!). Is one weird sport but very interesting. ¿WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SPORT? Thank
Boxing is a popular sport that many people seem to be fascinated by. Newspaper, magazines and sports programmes on TV frecuently cover boxing matches. Professional boxers earn a lot of money and successful boxers are treated as huge heroes. However I am personally not at all in favour of aggressive sports like boxing. I think it would be better if less time was given to aggressive sports on TV and we celebrated more men and women from non-aggressive sports as heroes and heroines in our society. I believe that the world is aggressive enough already! Of course, people like competitive sports and so do I, but I think that hitting other people is not something that should be regarded as a sport.