Aarhus University, Denmark 2010
Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, has held an annual spring festival called Kapsejlads (boat race) since 1991. Basically, it's a relay race in which each team member rows across a small pond in a park on the university property.
However, at least since 2010, the festival has started with an event called nøgenløb (naked race). I have no video of it from 2010, so I'm showing you the video above from 2022. The runners, mostly male but with a few females, run a course that goes along one side of the pond. Then they jump into the pond and swim across. The first one to make it to the other side of the pond wins. At the end of the video above, you can see the winner climbing out of the pond.
In 2010, here are some participants warming up before the race.
The race begins.
The runners jump into the pond and swim across.
Here they are climbing out of the pond. I think the guy on the left is the winner.
And here we see the winner being interviewed, naked.
But that's just the first event. There are entertainers to amuse the crowd, like this guy wearing an enormous dildo.
The dildo guy was accompanied by these girls dressed up as giant dildos. In other years, the entertainment has featured a naked woman giving a man a public lap dance.
In case you're wondering whether the students will get into trouble by putting on a show with nudity and such questionable entertainment, they won't. The crowd numbers in the tens of thousands, and they love it. And the mayor of Aarhus actually presides over the event.
Then it's time for the main event: the relay race across the pond in small boats or inflatable rafts. Those racers are not naked. Normally. But in 2010 one of them was naked, too (above).
When the rower gets to the other side, he has to guzzle a bottle of beer (above), then spin around ten times, holding the bottle.
Then he rows back across the pond.
Our naked rower has arrived and is being greeted by his teammates.
The boat race participants are not the only ones consuming beer. The event is basically a beer fest. Well, what goes in must come out (above).
I have lots of photos and videos of the Aarhus naked race in other years, so you'll be seeing it again.
4 comments:
Get drunk enough and you too can wear a strap-on and nothing else below the waist, accompanied by people dressed as dicks.
We Americans could learn a thing or two!
Looks like a fun time was had by all!
I love the "what goes in must come out" pics too, I so sorry they are all small resolution
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