The Paddy Games - August 14th

28th Jul 2010

The Paddy Games
August 14th 2010 - Mardyke Arena

"Taking silly very seriously" is the motto of the world's most surreal sports event. Taking place in Cork City this summer, the inaugural Paddy Games invites every animal and human around the world to compete in bizarre sports and break new records......but not many conventional ones.

Inspired by Ireland and held in Cork's Mardyke Arena on 14th August 2010, the programme promises to baffle the world's media with challenges such as the backwards 100m, blindfold sprint, mobile phone throwing, inter-species relay and the pogo-stick high jump.

The Paddy Games will be the theatre for a whole new breed of sports-star, affording participants the opportunity to win gold for their country and rejoice in their innate right to be their very own hero while freshening up the world's sports calendar.

After all, who was it that decided we should jump over the hurdles and not under them? Who insisted we race forwards rather than backwards, run rather than crawl and denied the doggy-paddle as a swimming stroke?

A truly global phenomenon, the Paddy Games has generated huge media interest internationally, with Reuter's agencies in the UK and Japan, ABC News in the US and a whole host of online news agencies from Canada to New Zealand all getting behind what will be a truly inspired event.

Giving serious welly to the occasion, it has just been confirmed that Reuters TV from the UK intend on covering the event with news feeds from the Mardyke being beamed to TV stations around the world; bringing the drama of the Paddy Games direct to living rooms from Athlone to Zimbabwe.

Athletes, adventurers, daredevils, musclemen, pioneers, dogs as well as goats, champs and rookies are invited to compete and can register online now at www.paddygames.ie

From marathon runners and hurdle sprinters to Irish dancers and dog trainers, the Games will have a sporting event to suit all backgrounds. In a bid to outsize the inaugural Modern Olympics of 1896, the Paddy Games will host over 251 competitors representing more than 15 countries; so to be in with a chance of taking gold for your country, register now!

Come to Cork this summer where backwards is the new forward! Are you game?

And the world wonders ... what could Usain Bolt do the Backwards 100m in?