Hundreds of 'mudletes' get dirty at the Mud Olympics
 

Hundreds of 'mudletes' get dirty at the Mud Olympics
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These aren't the clean, corporate Olympic Games that will hit Rio de Janeiro on Friday.

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For the last 12 years, Wattoluempiade, also k**w as the Mud Olympics, has hosted amateur athletes competing in events that seem traditional — except for the thick layer *of wet, slippery mud. **

Think of a soccer game played on a muddy field, taken to the extreme. *

With 46 teams registered, hundreds of so-called 'mudletes' competed Saturday in sports such as soccer, handball and volleyball. The events took place in the mud flats at the mouth of the Elbe river on the **rth Sea in Brunsbuettel,*Germany. Read more...

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