Vermont’s ‘Farmer Olympics’ look exactly like what you would imagine
Enthusiastically played in rural Vermont, the Farmer Olympics nearly match the Summer Games simultaneously happening in Rio—in spirit, if not skill.
The second annual Farmer Olympics, played Tuesday in Vershire, put local farm crews in competition against each other in games that even the event’s website admitted were at times “plain ridiculous.” The New Hampshire-based Valley News captured some of the, er, highlights.
Prepare yourself for a kazoo-ed rendition of the Olympic Anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8NZZ_1ZeLk
As The Boston Globe chronicled in a photo essay, some of the competitions included a manure relay and pushing 700-pound bales of hay.
The games were put on by the Northeast Organic Farmers Association of Vermont. According to the group, the games provided each farm’s team with the opportunity to “celebrate the season” and “show off their finely-honed skills.”
But also that manure relay could’ve done well to prepare Olympians for some of the rather unfortunate aspects of the games in Rio.
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