Wife carrying (contest)

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    Is this going to be in the Olympic Games? (I'm sure this was being done back in Ancient Greece.)
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    "It also purportedly stems from an even earlier tribal practice of wife-stealing, in honour of which many contestants now take up the challenge with someone else's wife."
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    You can interpret the above sentence in two completely different ways.
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    Years ago at the Buckwheat festival at Kingwood, Preston county, WV they had a contest called "Hog calling for women" hmm
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    Indeed!
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