Santa Claus Championships

EA look at Santa Claus World Championships in Switzerland

As the song goes, he knows when we're sleeping and when we're awake and when we're bad or good. But who know he could also do this for goodness sake. Welcome to the mountains of Switzerland where more than a hundred men and women competed in a Santa Claus World Championship. To win you don’t just have to look the part, but be able to belt out of your carols. (Wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.) Be able to skill a chimney in no time flash and be able to cope with some donkeys through the snow. You may be asking yourselves why donkeys. It seems they just couldn’t round up a reindeer for the event.

There was also a sprint involving presents, but then there was this, some kind of ball toss of that. And then to make it even more surreal, contestants got into this contraption from what we can gather the Santas strap themselves to Bungee court and jump up and down on trampolines. All were trying to catch ornaments being thrown over them. At least there was drinking involved.

We will let the winner explain what it took to claim the title. “We’ve trained very hard the whole year, especially mentally because we celebrate Santa Claus day our club since over an a hundred and forty years and so we were to best prepare for that job as we proved today.”

For that they get 4000 dollars and of course bragging rights.

EA, the Associated Press.

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就像那首歌唱的，无论我们是醒是睡，是好是坏，他都知道。但是谁知道，他也会做这样的事呢？欢迎来到瑞士的高山，在这里，100多名男女将要参加圣诞老人世界锦标赛。如果要赢得比赛，你必须边做动作边高声吟唱圣诞颂歌。（祝你圣诞快乐，新年愉快。）必须瞬间穿过烟筒，能够在雪地里驾驭几头驴子。你或许会问，为什么是驴，而不是麋鹿呢？问题是，怎么可能为了这个比赛就弄那么多麋鹿来呢？

还有一个短跑，获胜者会获得相应的礼品，但是并不是简单的赛跑，而是必须边跑边抛球。更加梦幻的是，参赛者必须进入这个奇妙的装置，这样，我们将“圣诞老人”们聚集到跳床上，他们会蹦蹦跳跳的接人们扔过来的饰品，其中包括饮料。

现在让获胜者介绍经验。“我们一年的时间里都非常刻苦训练，尤其是精神上的训练，因为140多年前我们就开始庆祝圣诞节，所以我们尽最大努力来准备，今天我们的努力获得了回报。”

由于赢得比赛，他们获得了4000美元奖金，当然有吹牛的资格。