LONDON (AP) — Intrepid athletes donned snorkels and slithered through slime on Sunday during one of Britain’s quirkiest sporting events: the World Bog Snorkeling Championships. The annual competition ...

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A schoolgirl from Northern Ireland has been crowned Women's World Champion in one of the planet's muckiest sports. Dineka Maguire is a 16-year-old girl from Co Fermanagh currently studying for her ...

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While I didn’t win the title of bog snorkeling champion either time, I did learn to turn off the rational part of my brain as I donned a wetsuit and costume, and jump into cold, dark bog waters — and ...

As if the weather wasn't bad enough, around 30 hardy souls yesterday flung themselves into a wet and squelching Co Armagh bog. Thankfully, the competitors came dressed for the wet weather and even ...

The World Bog Snorkelling Championships challenge nearly 200 participants to race through a 120-yard trench cut into the Waen Rhydd bog, a wetland home to frogs, newts and otters. Using snorkels and ...

A man proposed to his girlfriend whilst they were bog snorkelling in Wales. Simon Stratton, 32, asked Elinor Robson, 33, to be his wife during the annual World Bog Snorkelling Championship in ...

For the past 38 years, crowds have gathered on a peat bog outside the small town of Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales for the World ...