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

But sports cannot be consigned only to the serious. These sportsmen in a number of times are the butt of jokes with regard to their antics, their amazingly funny quotes or some bizarre activities that makes for quite a few really funny sports news. It truly is remarkable to watch a mind that is normally so strong, focused and channelized on the field just loose itself once off it. Sports news and various entertainment providers have a field day broadcasting these events and we, as audiences enjoy watching them.

Funny sports news does not just consist of these funny antics but reaches up to some hilarious and quite often 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 in what way! They’ve already developed a festival that is a walking competition with a twist. The all male participants have got to cover a 253.5m long course covered with obstacles over land and water while carrying their wife on their back!! The victorious one gets a mobile phone and even more 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. Historically the participants would have to be married to the woman, however in recent times any suitable female can do as long as she’s above 17 years of age and weighs more than 49 kg.

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

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

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