Perhaps you prefer sporting events

Perhaps you prefer sporting events that involve teamwork. If so, you might consider attending the American Wife Carrying Championships in Maine. In this event, each participant navigates a (6-meter) long pit filled with 3 feet (1 meter) of water, a downhill run on grass, and two log hurdles. woman (though not necessarily his wife) on his back. Dropping the "wife" at any point during the race results in receiving penalty point. This unusual sporting event priginated as a joke in Scandinavia, and is supposedly based on a past practice in which men found woman to marry by running to their village, picking them up, and carrying them off.