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Punjab villagers have been holding their own version of the Olympics, which includes an event where participants are run over by tractors.
Popularly known as the rural Olympics, the games are held every year in Kila Raipur, 11 miles from Ludhiana city in the northern Indian state of Punjab.
The competition consisted of 40 to 50 events and features a wide variety of rural games from tug-of-war to horse races and cock fighting.
But it is the unusual and dare devil stunts that are the biggest draw with the spectators - such as men pulling tractors with their teeth, lifting tractors with their legs and men being run over by tractors.
Kesar Singh, a 75-year-old who has been living in Canada for the past 19 years, said he specially flew in to participate in these games.
'I am feeling absolutely great. I have never seen an event like this one in Kila Raipur any where else in the world. It's one of its kind,' he said after winning the 100 metre race.
The first rural Olympics was held in 1933 and over the years the organisers have been adding various sporting and cultural events to widen their appeal.
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Punjab villagers have been holding their own version of the Olympics, which includes an event where participants are run over by tractors.
Popularly known as the rural Olympics, the games are held every year in Kila Raipur, 11 miles from Ludhiana city in the northern Indian state of Punjab.
The competition consisted of 40 to 50 events and features a wide variety of rural games from tug-of-war to horse races and cock fighting.
But it is the unusual and dare devil stunts that are the biggest draw with the spectators - such as men pulling tractors with their teeth, lifting tractors with their legs and men being run over by tractors.
Kesar Singh, a 75-year-old who has been living in Canada for the past 19 years, said he specially flew in to participate in these games.
'I am feeling absolutely great. I have never seen an event like this one in Kila Raipur any where else in the world. It's one of its kind,' he said after winning the 100 metre race.
The first rural Olympics was held in 1933 and over the years the organisers have been adding various sporting and cultural events to widen their appeal.
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