18 - Unusual sports in Finland
SPORTS DIFFERENCE.... I wanted to learn more about the sport that I could discover in Finland but I realize that in Finland t here is a lot of unusual sports that I never heard about before. I talked about it in one of my course "Get Finternational" so I'm going to talk about it now here. WOMEN'S WEAR WORDL CHAMPIONSHIP If you talk about it to a Finnish it would be very proud of it ! Participants in the Estonian-style women's carry (carrying head down with the woman's legs around the wearer's shoulders) The Women's Wearer (in Finnish Akankanto or eukonkanto) was established in 1996 in the village of Sonkajärvi, 400 km north-east of Helsinki. Legend has it that an unmarried man from the village went to steal a woman from the neighbouring village and carried her back on his back. A team is made up of a man and a woman. The aim is for the man to carry the woman through an obstacle course. This discipline has been emulated in Estonia, New Zealand a