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10/22/2007

VIDEO: Wok Racing is a Real Sporting Event

Yes, people actually use modified Woks to "make timed runs down an Olympic bobsled track" in Germany. Video after the break.

There are competitions for one-person-woksleds and four-person-woksleds, the latter using four woks per sled
[via Spluch]

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Posted at 10/22/2007 02:18am by TheFatTubist
This looks like a comedy skit... ... if not, I like the little woks they wear on their heels!
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Posted at 10/22/2007 03:41am by Sen
This event is invented by the german tv-host Stefan Raab in 2003. His tv show is a mixture of comedy and late-night. Since 2003 the Wok-Wm is annual event organized by his TV-Show "TV-Total". The "athletes" are TV-hosts, real athletes from different sports, german actors and so on. Some of them do it just for "fun", some take it more serious. Every Year it gets a bit more professional. The Woks are standard woks from the shop. But the can be modified: Some are polished, heated just before the start and some "athletes" wear additional weights. This ist the "official" site (german): http://tvtotal.prosieben.de/show/specials/wokwm2007/
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Posted at 10/22/2007 08:26am by Sen
And there are four-men-woks too. These are four woks connected together. They are faster,because of the higher weight.
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