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Check out some of the silliest sports from across the globe
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These are some seriously silly sports! Find out all about where they come from, who plays them and why (on earth) they do.
Robot camel racing
Although it'd be even cooler if the camels were robots, it's actually the jockeys that are made of metal.
After complaints about the use of children as jockeys, countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, asked technology firms to develop small remote-controlled robots instead.
The robots are often controlled by riders racing alongside the track in four-wheel drive jeeps.
Unicycle Basketball
Basketball is tricky at the best of times, but just try it while balancing on one wheel.
The 15th Unicycle World Championships were held recently in New Zealand, and included basketball, backward races, the high jump, obstacle courses and hockey.
Unicycle hockey can be traced back to a German silent movie made in the 1920s!
Lawn Mover Racing
Obviously, for some people cars and bikes just aren't enough. So, instead of only using that piece of junk in the shed to cut grass with, petrol heads up and down the UK also race them round fields.
Check out the Finish Lawn mover racing finals in this video!
Rock, Paper, Scissors
The game most often used to decide who gets first pick in PE is said to have started in Japan a few hundred years ago.
It now has a world society and a world championship. Tim Conrad took the title last year (dressed as Captain
America), and won £4,500 in the process.
Zorbing
Although it sounds like something that aliens might do, this New Zealand sport is something that has taken off a lot recently. In short, it involves strapping yourself into a huge inflatable ball and chucking yourself down a big hill. You¹re basically paying money to act like a giant hamster, but if
you don't mind getting dizzy it can be a lot of fun.
What do you think of these crazy sports, then? Any you'd like to try?Do you know of any other sports that are even weirder??
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