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12 novembre 2009

Champion advice for the new Bressuire team

Bressuire now boasts its own Highland Games Dream Team. On Saturday November 7th a team of eight with Belkacem Smahi as their leader got off to a flying start under the guidance of none other than Woult Zijlstra. Woult, who has won the Bressuire Highland...

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10 octobre 2009

Weight over the bar: a Hansome ovation

Not a description of a Highland Games athlete in a pub but an event which can be compared to pole-vaulting. The object of the exercise is to throw a 56 pound weight over a bar beginning at a height of 3.60m. Each athlete has three goes after which the...

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9 septembre 2009

Light weight for distance

After the stone and the hammer, another duo: the heavy weight throw on Saturday won by Hans Lolkema and the lighter version of Sunday. Contrary to expectations, Lolkema did not win “hands” down but was beaten by Craig Sinclair by 37 cm. A not so close...

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24 août 2009

The heavy stone put

Heavy-going this poetry stuff, You must all have had enough, So into prose we will relapse, And come back to rhyming later on perhaps With due respect for tradition, Sunday afternoon began with the heavy stone put. Having made light work of the light...

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Tags: 2009, bressuire, English, pierre, highland games, highland games bressuire, highland games france

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19 août 2009

Tossing the caber: qualifications

The spectators looked on with breath all bated – This was the event they had all awaited: The qualifications of tossing the caber When each man strives to out toss his neighbour. Alas, halfway through the proceedings The larch trunk lay on the ground...

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Tags: 2009, bressuire, caber, English, Mary Pinet, poetry, highland games, highland games bressuire, highland games france

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16 août 2009

Unofficial event: beer barrel over the bar

The technique for this unique Bressuire event is similar to that used in the weight over the bar event. The contestant stands with his back to the bar, swings the 27.5 kilo barrel between his legs for momentum, lets it go up and over the bar and then...

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16 août 2009

Event 3 : Heavy weight for distance

The heavy weight for distance – another highly impressive Highland Games event. The weight is shaped like a milk churn equipped with chain and handle. The contestant holds the weight by the handle, churns around two or three times as in Olympic hammer...

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14 août 2009

Event 2 : The heavy hammer throw

Legend has it that this event originated with Scottish smithies who, not content with pounding the hammer on the anvil all week, would keep their hand in on Sundays by seeing how far they could throw it! Nowadays Smithies and Smiths are as common as Browns...

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12 août 2009

Light stone put

The stone used for this, the first event of the Games, was found and polished in Largeasse (no comment), a town fittingly situated a stone’s throw from Bressuire. They say a rolling stone gathers no moss. And although this 16 pound rock did little rolling,...

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