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Wacky Nation
For more information about the world of unusual sports, you may want to read Wacky Nation: 50 Unbelievable Days out at Britain's Craziest Contests. This book is a humorous, often surreal travel book written by James Bamber and Sally Raynes (the creators of Wacky Nation), which showcases wacky races, weird world championships, crazy contests and zany traditions in the United Kingdom.
Here is a list of sports that are covered in the book. Some of these are also featured on this site:
- Cheese Rolling
- World Clog Cobbing Championships
- Knaresborough Bed Race
- Tetbury Woolsack Races
- Bognor Birdman
- World Worm Charming Championships
- Shin Kicking
- Egg Rolling
- World Coal Carrying Championships
- Sheep Grand National
- Ottery Tar Barrels
- Totnes Orange Races
- World Pea Shooting Championships
- World Crazy Golf Championships
- Matlock Raft Race
- Oxenhope Straw Race
- Real Ale Wobble
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