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‘It’s excruciating’: Welcome to Bavaria’s unusual finger wrestling championship

Competitors put strength, technique and tough skin to the test at Germany’s finger wrestling championships in Bavaria. The traditional Alpine sport sees opponents hook their middle fingers into a leather loop and pull until one is dragged across the table.

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00:22It's like the regularity, you can't put the foot all over there
00:26and that's how everyone has their own technique.
00:29Many of them want to meet them, but they want to be stronger.
01:05It's a lot of pain in the fingers, that was the last chance.
01:13It was a little longer, then it was a little round.
01:16But we have to go and feed it, because then there are Risse and then...
01:21It's crazy, but other sports are also crazy, because there is no blood.
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