We’ve seen many weird traditions including cheese rolling and maypole dancing. Clearly some people prefer to gain some publicity by taking part in the most strangest traditions rather than do something more useful like creating a Hair loss medication . However one country has created a new sport which has is its competitors literally itching to win.
According to this article in Yahoo News, a competition has debuted this year in Estonia has thirty seven participants in the city of Tartu in a field where they are given ten minutes to catch as many mosquitoes as they can. This strange contest was launched to deal with the massess of mosquitos in Estonia. The organiser of the event, Triinu Akkermann said "We have many mosquitoes and we must fight them somehow, so we decided to organise a mosquito-catching championship."
One of the competitors, Jevgeny Serov devised a strategy to attempt to win the contest. He said "We will warm up so we will start sweating a little then I will stand with bare hands and feet and my wife and daughter will pick mosquitoes off me."
However his plan hadn’t been the most successful as the first prize was awarded to Rauno Luksepp. The winning score was 38 mosquitoes with a lot of biting in the process, which won him a sailing trip on the Estonia’s Lake Peipus.
In addition to this strange nature of the sport, the competition rules do not state whether the mosquitos caught have to be dead or alive. Furthermore, competitors were allowed to work alone or in teams.
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