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    Those Crazy Fins

    Finalist dies at World Sauna event in Finland

    Spectators were deeply shocked by the accident
    The annual World Sauna Championships in Finland have ended in tragedy with the death of one of the finalists.
    Russian Vladimir Ladyzhensky and his Finnish rival, Timo Kaukonen, collapsed after suffering severe burns. Mr Ladyzhensky later died in hospital.
    The event requires participants to withstand 110C (230F) for as long as possible. The men managed six minutes before judges noticed something amiss.
    Its chief organiser said all the rules of the event had been followed.
    "
    It is not so unusual to have 110 degrees in a sauna. A lot of competitors before have sat in higher temperatures than that”
    "All the rules were followed and there were enough first aid personnel. All the competitors needed to sign in to the competition with a doctor's certificate," Ossi Arvela told reporters in Heinola, where it was held.
    Half a litre of water was added to the stove inside the sauna every 30 seconds, and the last person remaining was the winner. There was no prize other than "some small things", he told the Associated Press.
    "I know this is very hard to understand to people outside Finland who are not familiar with the sauna habit," he said. "It is not so unusual to have 110 degrees in a sauna. A lot of competitors before have sat in higher temperatures than that."
    Mr Kaukonen, the defending world champion, had refused to leave the sauna during the final despite appearing sick, Mr Arvela said. He is now said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
    Mr Arvela said police were already investigating Mr Ladyzhensky's death, which he said had left the organisers grief-stricken.
    The event, which had over 130 participants from 15 countries, had been held since 1999. The organisers said it would never be held again.
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    #2
    Congratulations on posting the strangest story of the week (IMO).

    It's Finns btw. Sharks have fins.
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      #3
      Well it is nothing to get all steamed up about!!!

      “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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        #4
        Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
        Well it is nothing to get all steamed up about!!!

        Brrrrrrrr dum. Tssch!
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          #5

          The event requires participants to withstand 110C (230F) for as long as possible.
          Are they sure it was 110C? Hotter than boiling water?! Or did some mong of a reporter get their units wrong?

          Even 110F at 100% humidity is soon unbearable, and much hotter would be rapidly fatal. For example, people can't survive in that crystal cave in Mexico (at around 136F) for more than a few minutes without being dressed from head to toe in cooling suits.
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            #6
            Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
            Are they sure it was 110C? Hotter than boiling water?! Or did some mong of a reporter get their units wrong?
            Yes. Have you never been to a sauna?

            Bedwetters on this forum would jump out of sauna crying for mummy once temp is over 30C I reckon

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              #7
              Originally posted by AtW View Post
              Yes. Have you never been to a sauna?

              Bedwetters on this forum would jump out of sauna crying for mummy once temp is over 30C I reckon
              Was that your personal experience ?

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                #8
                Darn - I've just installed PeerBlock, which proudly announced it has blocked over 750,000,000 IP addresses on my PC.

                Unfortunately, these seem to include most news sites such as the BBC, Guardian, etc. So I can't check this item.

                Oh well, I waste enough time reading news articles anyway. So maybe it's done me a favour.
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Green Mango View Post
                  Was that your personal experience ?
                  His experience is more of Turkish baths with similarly hirsute overweight men.

                  But he doesn't like to talk about it.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                    Darn - I've just installed PeerBlock, which proudly announced it has blocked over 750,000,000 IP addresses on my PC.

                    Unfortunately, these seem to include most news sites such as the BBC, Guardian, etc. So I can't check this item.

                    Oh well, I waste enough time reading news articles anyway. So maybe it's done me a favour.
                    There is no "maybe" about it!!

                    “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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