You probably do not know that there is a particular competition that is mud-associated. Funny enough, it has been on since 1978.
Today the competition is held alongside a series of concerts on the identical weekend for local bands, called “Mudstock”, which raises money for the Schleswig-Holstein Cancer Society. The events include mud versions of traditional sports like soccer and handball, also as mud specific events just like the mud-eel race and also the long-distance gumboot toss.
Participants make the most of the nice and cozy conditions to splash, wallow, and gain covered from head to toe in the sticky brown stuff. Over 4,000 people have a good time practicing sports within the Mud Olympics each year.
Forty teams from Germany and other countries compete in mud volleyball, mud football, and slimy sledding for medals moreover as prizes like funniest team name, best mud mascot, and best costume.
“The ladies have shown us the gorgeous side of football; now the globe is prepared for the dirty side,” says Oliver Kumbartzky of the organizing committee, whose job could be best described as Chief Referee. A ‘dirty’ sports event for an honest cause, however.
The proceeds visit the Cancer Relief Association of Schleswig-Holstein. quite 120,000 Euros are collected over a previous couple of years. (The German Watt means ‘mudflat’. For all those over forty, the illusion needs no further explanation.) This attractive musical event also contributes a considerable sum to the Cancer Relief Association.
