Eight of the world's weirdest sports - from Bog Snorkelling to Gravy Wrestling
dailystar.co.ukErling Haaland, they're the ones who deserve £500,000-a-week!Sport has a unique way of bringing people together, for the weirdest of reasons and in the weirdest of ways.
After all, if you enter the Wife Carrying championships with your spouse it's safe to assume your marriage will survive anything.With that in mind, here are eight of the most truly bizarre sports in the world.Despite its foul-sounding name, bog snorkelling has nothing to do with strapping a pair of goggles on and shoving your head down a toilet.
In reality it's a lot more dignified, but equally as mucky.Competitors are submerged in a water-filled peat bog and must snorkel their way up and down in the shortest possible time using only the power of their legs.The championships takes place every year in the same stretch of marshy Welsh countryside, attracting contestants and even fans from as far afield as New Zealand and South Korea.Which of these sports would you be best at?
Let us know in the comments section.While the thought of seeing Tyson Fury pummelling chess grand master Garry Kasparov into a swollen-faced oblivion might sound like a compelling watch to some, one of the rules of Chess Boxing is that you have to be proficient in both disciplines.Four minutes of chess is followed by three minutes of boxing, and this continues until a winner is declared - either by knockout or check mate.As hybrid sports go it's fairly well balanced, though we'd love to see something a little more reckless, like trampoline javelining, or beer-pong skiing!Northerners really love gravy.
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