White-water rafting on blow-up dolls

It's not an official sport event and it will probably never be considered for the Olympics, but the growing popularity of Rubber Doll White-Water rafting in Russia saw the fourth annual contest staged near St.Petersburg. The event, better known as the 'Bubble Baba Challenge', is the highlight of the novelty watersports season in Russia, and was held over a testing one kilometre course near St.Petersburg.

Contestants are required to brave rapids on the river Vuoksa while embracing a blow-up doll, some of whom had their modesty preserved by t-shirts. The idea to use rubber dolls to race down the rapids was conceived as a joke three years ago during a long rafting trip involving only men. Since then the popularity of this new watersport has grown rapidly.

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Reuters 14348/06

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[galaxiedance]

Where's Quagmire? :)

[420LaYzIe420]

those dolls look very shocked lol

[gtwglitchers]

1:35 after the titanic sank 

[strjdriver]

White people y o y

[JohanOlsson]

@blackittysamurai aaahahaha a good one =))))))))

[blackittysamurai]

I could see Monty Python coming up with this forty years ago and here's the real deal!

Hilarious. And here i thought Russians had no sense of humour.

[franklinreid]

Who the fuck wears jeans and shoes to go swimming?

[expiredrapper85]

In soviet russia, doll fuck you.

[forghani11]

Only in Russua

[B100NL]

what the f*ck just happend?

[ROmanianGuy09]

whats the point of that anyway??!

[TheMetalApocalipse]

now i have seen everything...