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Russian city hosts painful face-slapping contest

Krasnoyarsk recently hosted Russia's first ever amateur face-slapping championship. Participants faced each other across a small table and hit each other on the face with the palm of their hands. Vasily Kamotsky, 28, a 168-kilogram farmer and fitness enthusiast, won the contest, getting 30,000 rubles ($470) as prize money.

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