This Mental Floss article talks about 6 awesome “sports”. Too bad these aren’t Olympic sports… yet!

5. Wife Carrying
There鈥檚 no more auspicious beginning for a sport than to start out as a joke, and wife carrying has somehow made the leap from laughable oddity to legitimate sport since its inception in Finland. Originally designed as a play on the legend of men courting women by grabbing them and running off with them, wife carrying is a form of racing in which a man totes his wife (or other female partner) through an obstacle course as quickly as possible. For all the silliness of the endeavor, the rules are fairly technical. The couples pass through a 253.5-meter course complete with a water obstacle and two dry obstacles, and any husband dropping his wife is docked 15 seconds. The wife must weigh at least 49 kilograms, otherwise she is given a weighted sack to make up the difference. If you can make it to Sonkajarvi, Finland by July 4, you can still compete in this year鈥檚 world championships. The sport still has a sense of humor; first prize is the wife鈥檚 weight in beer. Or check out the video first; this style of knees-over-the-shoulder positioning is known as an 鈥淓stonian carry.鈥�

I wonder if there’s also a category for girlfriend carrying… my boyfriend would really like my weight in beer!