Sports, as an activity, has been connected with a lot of seriousness, focus and dedication with the sportsman. Team sports and also individual sports share the same degree of dedication and determination involved, that being the essence of champions and champion teams. True sportsmanship is actually a quality that men and women, and not just sportsmen, dream to possess on the field plus in their respective personal lives.

But sports should not be consigned merely to the serious. These athletes in a number of times are the butt of jokes for their antics, their remarkably funny quotes or some peculiar activities that makes for some seriously funny sports news. It truly is remarkable to watch a mind that is normally so strong, focused and channelized within the field just loose itself once off it. Sports news and various entertainment providers have got a field day airing these events and we, as audiences have a good time watching them.

Funny sports news will not just involve these funny antics but extends to some hilarious and sometimes bizarre sports competitions. There are numerous news providers who uncover these seriously funny sports competitions and bring these to their viewers.

The Finnish people take their beer seriously and how! They have developed a festival which is a walking competition with a twist. The all male players have to cover a 253.5m long course covered with obstacles over land and water while hauling their wife on their back!! The victorious one receives a mobile phone and most importantly, the equivalent of his wifes weight in beer!

The participants have to be careful of dropping or bouncing the wife as that features a fine. Traditionally the participants had to be married to the woman, but in recent times any suitable female will do provided she’s above 17 years old and weighs over 49 kg.

For the person in search of action head over to Pamplona in Spain for their annual event, the Running of the Bulls! This sport involves a bull chasing the multitude of participants through the narrow lanes of Pamplona for up to a kilometer. The chase ends finally inside the bullring in which the bulls are left to fend for themselves. Every year the crowds go crazy during this event ultimately causing some seriously funny moments.

For the compassionate who do feel a little revolted by the gory nature of the Running of the Bulls event comes a compassionate alternative. The Festival of San Fermin is commemorated each year with the thrilling Running with the Nudes events. Quite similar to the Running of the Bulls, this event too demands people running in the twisting streets of Pamplona; the only catch is that they are completely nude! A fitting reply, one can say, for the barbarity linked to bullfights.

A boat race could hardly be called hilarious. However, not the Henley on Todd Regatta, an annual sports event held in Alice Springs. The Alice Springs version of the very English Henley on Thames regatta involves boating all right, but on a dry river bed. That is so as Alice Springs lacks the active water body as it is very near Central Australia. This seriously funny sports event has been in the news for its large boats that have no bottom and sees the participants making a mad dash to the finish line running inside these hollow boats.