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Lithuanian couple wins international wife-carrying championship
UPI ^
| July 8, 2019
| Ed Adamczyk
Posted on 07/08/2019 3:45:51 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
July 8 (UPI) -- Vytatutas Kirkliauskas, with his wife Neringa, traversed a muddy course and won the annual wife-carrying championships in Finland on Saturday.
It was the second consecutive victory for the Lithuanian couple in the international event, held for the 31st time in Sonkajarvi, Finland. They ran an 830-foot obstacle course, walking in mud and crossing waist-high water and wooden barriers in one minute and 6.72 seconds. Their finish was only one second better than the effort of six-time winner Taisto Miettinen and new partner Katja Kovanen, but enough to win the prize of the wife's weight in beer.
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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: beer; finland; wifecarrying
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This needs to be considered for an Olympic sport just to see the reaction of the silly folks at ESPN and the like.
To: ConservativeStatement
Wife carrying?
How far and do they pick up?
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posted on
07/08/2019 3:48:41 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: dp0622
They ran an 830-foot obstacle course, walking in mud and crossing waist-high water and wooden barriers in one minute and 6.72 seconds.
To: ConservativeStatement
Good for them.
That was a joke in my post.
Not a good one but should have been recognizable as a joke :)
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posted on
07/08/2019 3:50:42 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: dp0622
D’oh! I missed the layup and I expected some biting humor.
To: ConservativeStatement
Let’s see Barry Obama rep the USA by carting Big Mike on his shoulders.
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posted on
07/08/2019 3:58:01 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
To: dp0622
FWIW,
Despite the name, team members need not be married, ...
Nothing about gender "fluidity", but the carried half has to be at least 108 lbs.
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
07/08/2019 3:59:37 PM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: Pelham
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posted on
07/08/2019 4:01:55 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/08/2019 4:03:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: ConservativeStatement
new partner ?
Old partner put on too much weight?
To: ConservativeStatement
That's a great carry technique!
(as long as the water wasn't too deep)
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posted on
07/08/2019 4:39:50 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: dp0622
To: ConservativeStatement
To: Larry Lucido
hillariy in the blue pants suit. No one could lift her.
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posted on
07/08/2019 5:13:03 PM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: Pelham; BenLurkin
Big Mike might win.
If she did the Barry Carry.
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posted on
07/08/2019 5:19:13 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Vytatutas was later disqualified when the reason for his haste was discovered: Neringa was not his wife.
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posted on
07/08/2019 5:24:19 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: G Larry
And one didn’t have certain foods before the race....
To: Robert A Cook PE
Good point. I think we’d all pay to see Big Mike do the Barry Carry.
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posted on
07/08/2019 7:03:11 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
To: ConservativeStatement
But enough to win the prize of the wife's weight in beer.Talk about a conundrum - figuring out the ideal sweet spot of wife weight - a winning weight that still generates a bitchin' beer yield.
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posted on
07/08/2019 7:54:15 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
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