ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月30日 07時08分

There was a time long ago when Finland was very serious about its sports. Athleticism and physical activity were important concepts around which the country’s identity was built after it gained independence from Russia in 1917. That time has since passed, and in its place is a new, far weirder era of national sports prosperity. Just how weird? In #Finland, the most thinly populated country in the European Union, there are the wife-carrying races (where the winners receive the wife’s weight in beer) and air guitar contests (hashtag: #makeairnotwar) and soccer games played in cold, coffee-brown swamp water. But this bizarre side of competition seems to have its appeals. More than 2,000 people ventured to the remote backwaters of central #Finland recently for the 20th annual Swamp Soccer World Championships. “You play, you lose, you win — no one cares,” said one player, who was competing in the tournament for the ninth time. “The whole game is so tough, you’re totally wiped out when you’re done.” @janne.korkko took this photo of Evgeniy Gultyaev, from Russia, resting in a hammock during the swamp soccer championships. Visit the link in our profile to read more about how Finland has sort of lost its sports mind.

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