Video: New Year's Santa Clauses are competing in Switzerland
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The New Year is approaching - which means that soon Santa Claus will have a lot of work! They will have to go around millions of houses, crawl through millions of chimneys and put gifts in millions of socks. Who is the best Santas to cope with their task? This can be found out only in one place: on World Santa Claus Championship in the Swiss Alps!
More than a hundred Santa Claus at the end of November they gather in a Swiss town (about 600 inhabitants) called Samnaun. They are in a sporty mood: they need to prove themselves in several special New Year disciplines … First, this is a sled ride:
Secondly, this is a team ride on a horse-drawn sled (unfortunately, there are not many deer in Switzerland). Third, the high-speed distribution of packages with gifts: Santa Clauses run, aptly throwing gifts into baskets. Fourth, drift on a sled with a wooden donkey: participants must ride, leaving a special zigzag trail. Fifth, climbing a fireplace with a bag full of gifts is no easy task!
In all these competitions new year santa claus participate in teams of four. They, sparing neither beards nor costumes, are fighting for the cup: those who turn out to be the most saint of the claus will receive the title of "Nikolaus Veltmeister" - that is, World Master Nicholas (as you know, the prototype of all Saints - St. Nicholas). And the 5,000 euros that will be awarded to the winning team will not hinder anyone either.
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