LONDON (AP) — Intrepid athletes donned snorkels and slithered through slime on Sunday during one of Britain’s quirkiest sporting events: the World Bog Snorkeling Championships. The annual competition ...

The World Bog Snorkelling Championships challenge nearly 200 participants to race through a 120-yard trench cut into the Waen Rhydd bog, a wetland home to frogs, newts and otters. Using snorkels and ...

The man who helped to put a small Welsh town on the international map with a series of wacky and wonderful events has died. Gordon Green was the brains behind events including the World Bog ...

For the past 38 years, crowds have gathered on a peat bog outside the small town of Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales for the World ...

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From chasing horses to snorkelling in bogs and chasing a cheese down a rather steep hill, here is our pick of the best eccentric contests from around the UK ...