48 couples from 13 countries gathered in Finland to compete in the 13th Wife-carrying World Championships on July 5.

第13届国际背妻锦标赛近日在芬兰举行，共有来自13国的48对夫妇参赛，选手必须涉过水池，越过数个障碍物，冠军可获得与女伴体重相当的啤酒。

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From rolling cheese in Gloucestershire to wife-carrying in Scandinavia, the world is full of quirky, colourful - and downright bizarre - events.

从格洛斯特郡的滚奶酪到斯堪的纳维亚半岛倒背妻子…大千世界，无奇不有，充满着各种怪异但又多姿多彩的节日。

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The wife-carrying competition has its roots in alegend of Ronkainen the Robber and his gang who lived in the forests and stole food and girls from villages.

背老婆比赛源于芬兰的一个“强盗龙凯宁”传说。 龙凯宁和他的同伙们住在森林里，从附近的村庄偷食物，抢姑娘。

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The World Alternative Games, starting 17 August in Llanwrtyd Wells, will take place at almost the same exact time as the 2012 Olympic Games, and will feature events such as wife-carrying and rock-paper-scissors.

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Famous for an annual wife-carrying competition, for regular success at the world air-guitar championship and record-breaking hurling of rubber boots and mobile phones, Finland can now claim another accolade: its citizens are reportedly the world's keenest pranksters.

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An example brought up numerous times was that of Gregory Robbins, an airman stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, who beat his 18-year-old wife in 1996, killing the child she was carrying.

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