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Finnish Wife-Carrying: Win Your Body Weight in Beer! watch!

telegraph.co.uk — It's hard to find that optimal balance - you want to weigh more so you can win more beer, but you don't want her to be too heavy.

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  • hakkola, on 07/06/2008, -2/+10Hyvää Suomi!

    Maybe next year I'll give it a try.
  • lekahe, on 07/07/2008, -3/+8We Finns are very original! This is not the only odd sport we have invented :)
    • dinostabOMG, on 07/08/2008, -1/+7But is that how you elect your president?
      • HKiOnline, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3Yes you got it right. We carry our women around the capital village of Finland. Obviously the first couple to cross the Finnish-line are the winners. The man gets the beer and the woman gets to be the president.

        This saves us lots of money and it's funny to watch.
    • lekahe, on 07/08/2008, -2/+6Our president is a woman....
      • hakkola, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1LOL, air guitar championships as well...

        What else? When I'm in Finland I'm usually too drunk to remember anything...
  • feedzh, on 07/07/2008, -4/+10you may invented that, but we, estonians, have won it :D
    • MacroDaemon, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5We're proud of our wife carrying skills.
    • lekahe, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3Congratulations! We are jealous :)
  • Hitpoint, on 07/08/2008, -1/+19We Americans try to get rid of our wives, not carry them around with us.
  • Yookji, on 07/08/2008, -1/+9England won the bronze because of their "aerodynamic" costumes.
    • soupr, on 07/08/2008, -0/+12Our best sporting result in years!! GO ENGLAND
  • Owwmykneecap, on 07/08/2008, -2/+4I heartily support finnish women.
  • onethreeeleven, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8shouldn't you win your wife's body weight in beer?
    • DutchOven, on 07/08/2008, -3/+4They couldn't afford to pay out the prizes if Americans took the top 3 spots.
      • t2t2, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Nah beer's cheap over in the nordics...
        (less than $1 USD in Estonia per bottle, and you get 10 cents back for the package)
      • MacroDaemon, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3It used to be less than a dollar, but not with the more recent exchange rates.
  • eggsovereasy, on 07/08/2008, -2/+6If I could win that I would get a lot of beer... being a fatass finally pays off!
    • Jashro, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8Not in the long run.
      • syntheticfth, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3Wait a minute, no one said anything about a "long run". I'll just watch it on tv then. USA! USA!
  • branndon, on 07/08/2008, -1/+6Aerodynamic costume huh..... yeah. wearing nothing is pretty aerodynamic.
  • lava, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7man, it's time for that again?

    Man, another year of my life gone.
  • Vessol, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Man I would be pissed if I won. I'm underweight..meaning less beer..D:
  • bcrich999, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0When i first read the title, I thought a pregnant woman won her body weight in beer (it said wife carrying)..
  • bocce, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I guess I came too late for this because it's now Bush saying something 'bout China.
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