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Crazy Competition
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Crazy Competitions
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Crazy Competitions 疯狂竞赛
You Won’t Believe These Sports! 难以置信的体育项目
Read the text below and do the activity that follows.
阅读下面的短文,然后完成练习:
You might not know it, but many sports and games that are played all over the
world were invented by the British. Football, tennis, cricket, snooker, rugby,
and golf all originated in the British Isles.
However, if you thought that here in the UK we are only interested in
mainstream sports then think again. That’s because Britain has become a
breeding ground for increasingly bizarre sports. This week’s Take Away
English looks at some of the strangest sports and competitions to be found in
the UK (all of them are 100% true).
Every year the Welsh Village of Llanwrtyd Wells hosts the World Bog-
Snorkelling Championships. In this event competitors are required to put on a
face mask, wetsuit and snorkel then swim face down in a water-filled ditch.
If you think that sounds painful, then you probably won’t want to take part in
the World Nettle Eating Championships. This competition takes place in the
village of Marshwood in the south-west of England. The rules are simple: each
competitor has one hour to eat as many stinging nettles as they can. You’ll
have to work hard to win it – last year’s winner munched his way through
14.6 meters of nettles!
You don’t always have to have physical strength to be a winner in British silly
sports. A Nottingham pub plays host to the annual competition to be ‘The
World’s Greatest Liar’. This competition invites competitors to tell the most
unbelievable story they can make up. Last year’s winner won the prize after
entertaining the crowd with a whopper about his parents who just happen to
be vampires!
In recent years we have seen the rise of what must be the silliest sport of
them all – extreme ironing. Invented in Leicester in 1997, extrem
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