Too alluring a brew, too heavy a weight

SONKAJARVI, Finland: Julia Galvin came to Finland looking for a man who would carry over a 253-m track - the incentive being the chance to win the wife-carrying world title and beer worth her body weight. She weighes 120 kgs.

In the end a Briton carried the Irish woman through a pool and across hurdles. She did not make the gold, but said she would keep trying until the title and the beer was hers.

"I think I am worth carrying because I am a walking party," she said.