Thirty-nine teams gathered together at a ski resort in Maine for a single purpose: to carry their wives. The event organizers claim the “art” of wife carrying dates back to ancient times when Vikings would raid villages and carry off the women. While probably true, it’s kind of hard to believe the legitimacy of this explanation as I stand next to a pyramid of Bud Light stacked next to the finish line. It should also be mentioned that the competition is not limited to married couples. Provided the carrier and carried posses the sum of the body parts described in the birds and the bees talk, your team is qualified.
Over log obstacles and though a mud pit they will go on the two hundred and seventy-eight yard course. The two teams with fastest times from the first round will go the final. In the final they will carry head to head. The winners of that race will become the “8th Annual North American Wife Carrying Champions.”
This year the teams of Keith Cardoza/ Julia Stoner and Ri Fahnestock/ Sarah Silverberg raced in the final round. It was the closest finish in the history of the competition. A mere three-hundredths of a second separated the two. In the end it was the Cardoza/ Stoner team that took the title… and the beer.
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