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From: "ATUL N. CHOTAI" <kasumbo@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:57:18 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: India's Rural Olympics
To: Amit Vaghela <amit_vaghela16@yahoo.com>
Being run over by a tractor, carrying bricks with your teeth and cow chariot
racers: Fascinating pictures of India's bizarre Rural Olympics
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 18:48 GMT, 4 February 2013 | UPDATED: 07:43 GMT, 5 February 2013
If you thought some of the events in the London 2012 Olympic Games
looked gruelling then think again.
These bizarre pictures show competitors taking part in India's Rural
Olympics. And the sports are not for the fainthearted. Games include
being run over by farm machinery, bullock chariot racing, horseback
acrobatics and other weird demonstrations of strength.
Painful: A man lies under a tractor as a test of strength during the
Indian Rural Olympics
Amazing test of dental strength: A man lifts a plough with his mouth
at the Rural Olympics in India
Bizarre: This competitor proved his strength by lifting two bicycles
with his teeth
Formally known as the Kila Raipur Sports Festival, competitors range
in age from teenagers to pensioners.
There is even a 100metre race for the over 80s.
Around a million people attend the annual sporting event which has now
become an important part of India’s Punjab culture. Spectators
travel from all over the world to the village of Kila Raipur to attend
the games which attracts more than 4,000 sportsmen and women every
February.
That's got to hurt: A tractor drives over Balbir Singh (right) and
Lakha Singh (left) at India's Rural Olympics
Built strong: A man carries 26 bricks with teeth while another
participant uses his dentures to pull a tractor
Unusual: A man takes part in a turban tying competition (left) while
another shows off his stunts on a motorbike (right)
Villagers performing the traditional dance of Punjab, the Bhangra, at
the Rural Olympics
The festival has become an international hit for its more unusual
sports categories.
Categories include holding bicycles in teeth and pulling vehicles with hair.
Bullocks, camels, dogs and other animals also compete in their own events.
Proving there is no age limit these sprightly runners took part in the
over 80 race won by Teja Singh
Celebration: Crowds gather to watch the displays during the Rural
Olympics in India
The bullock cart race is the main attraction with the winner taking
home a cash prize.
The three-day event is a celebration of rural life in India's farming
and has taken place every year since 1933.
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