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Finnish Couple Wins UK Wife Carrying Race 2026 | The Daily Perspective
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slothrop lemmy.ca slothrop@lemmy.ca
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Town lemmy.zip Town@lemmy.zip
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"All 'wives' must weigh at least 50kg. Anyone under-weight is obliged to wear a rucksack filled with tins of flour, water or similar to bring them to the required weight."

This seems pretty arbitrary. Why not weigh them all down to have an equal and fair competition?

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Ephera lemmy.ml Ephera@lemmy.ml
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"All 'wives' must weigh at least 50kg. Anyone under-weight is obliged to wear a rucksack filled with tins of flour, water or similar to bring them to the required weight." This seems pretty arbitrary. Why not weigh them all down to have an equal and fair competition?

I'm guessing, they wanted the physique of the partner to be relevant (otherwise might as well just make it a race with weights), without encouraging those partners to starve themselves for the competition...

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Dasus lemmy.world Dasus@lemmy.world
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I'm guessing, they wanted the physique of the partner to be relevant (otherwise might as well just make it a race with weights), without encouraging those partners to starve themselves for the competition...

Yeah 50 kg really isn't that much for an adult woman, so a minimum here makes sense imo.

Also proud to see our national sport spreading.

Torille!

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gravitas_deficiency sh.itjust.works gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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Sounds like the other contestants

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Didn’t Finnish

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