We have heard of weird contests such as the Chilli Eating Contest in Japan - that is actually enough to damage one's internal organs.
But this World Sauna Championship is absolutely ridiculous. Basically, as the name goes, contestants are to stay in a sauna for as long as possible, and they increase the temperature of the sauna at different stages. Now, I don't understand why anyone would want to put himself through such physical and mental torture?
For money? For fame? It is seriously not worth it!
And we are not talking about 40 - 50 degrees Celcius. The final stage of the competition required the finalists to stay in a sauna with a temperature of 110 degrees Celcius! Pure madness!
Just after six minutes, both collapsed. One died.
Why am I not surprised?
Read details below:
HELSINKI (AFP) - – The two finalists in Finland's annual World Sauna Championships were rushed to hospital before the competition ended Saturday evening and the Russian contestant died, organisers said.
The "Russian competitor has died in (the) Sauna World Championships," the head of the competition Ossi Arvela said in a statement.
He added that the Finnish finalist had been taken from the competition location in Heinola, 138 kilometres (86 miles) north of Helsinki, further south to a hospital in the larger city of Lahti for treatment.
He told AFP that the two finalists were Russian Vladimir Ladyzhensky and Timo Kaukonen of Finland.
Kaukonen won last year's championships and Ladyzhensky had also figured among the favorites ahead of Saturday's meet, in which participants were asked to withstand a sweltering 110 degrees Celsius (230 degrees Fahrenheit) for as long as possible.
The "event was interrupted immediately after the accident. (The) competition organisation grieves these sad events," Arvela said.
Police launched an investigation, he said, insisting that "all the rules were followed" and that all the contestants had undergone medical checks before the competition began.
According to Finnish news agency STT, the contest was cut short after about six minutes, and when the doors were opened, both finalists collapsed.
One witness told the news agency they had both suffered serious burns, but Arvela could not confirm the information.
The world championships in sauna sitting have been held in Heinola since 1999, and this year's event drew 135 contestants from 15 different countries.
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I hope there will less dumb people in the world.
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