Bog standards stay high.MORE than 150 hardy sportsmen and women braved the wind, rain and mud yesterday to take part in the World Bog Snorkelling Bog snorkelling is a sporting event that consists of competitors completing two consecutive lengths of a 60-yard water filled trench cut through a peat bog, in the shortest time possible. Championship. Competitors from across the UK turned out in force for the popular August Bank Holiday ritual in which everyone ends up with mud on their face. At least 150 bog snorkellers registered before the event began with dozens more expected before its conclusion. It is now more than two decades since the small Mid Wales Mid Wales is the name given to the area of Wales between North Wales and South Wales. It borders England via the Welsh Marches to the east and the Irish Sea via Cardigan Bay to the west (West Wales is to the south-west). town of Llanwrtyd Wells began hosting the annual challenge. For the first time, Gorden Green, 74, the man who devised the event to help put the town on the tourist map, braved the elements himself. Now retired, he turned out in flippers, a mask and a snorkel snorkel, tube through which a submarine or diver can draw air while underwater. When in use, the top of the snorkel tube extends above the water surface into the air. to get down and dirty in one of two 60-yard trenches dug into the bog outside the town. |
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