SPORTS

Highland Games

The Highland Games are sporting events that take place throughout the year in Scotland and other countries, whose aim is to celebrate Scottish culture, and especially cultural heritage, sports and Highlands. Some aspects of the games have become emblematic of Scotland, this is particularly the case for parades pipers, participants dressed in kilt, and showdowns. The most famous are probably the tug (tug O'War English) Toss the Caber (throwing a tree trunk measuring between 5 and 6.5 meters to land perpendicular to the ground) . While some trace the tradition of Highland games to the eleventh century and King Malcolm III of Scotland, playing in their current form was developed in the nineteenth century during the Victorian period, after the Clearances.

Although focused on competitions of bagpipes, drums-majors, Highland dancing and showdowns, the Highland Games are also the shows and exhibitions related to different aspects of Scottish traditional culture, and particularly Gaelic language.

The Main Activities are:

* Send in the air in front of you and a very heavy and long trunk, the trunk must make a full turn and the end held in the hand must fall more in line as possible after the other has landed (the Caber).
* Send a stone as far as possible
* Send a hammer as far as possible (16 or 22 pounds)
* Send a weight at the end of a chain as far as possible (28 or 56 pounds)
* Send in the air over top of a bar placed a very heavy (56 pounds)
tug, tug of war in English (tug of meaning fire)
T* he sprints and middle-distance races (as in the movie "Chariots of Fire")

Alexandre Ducourty

Joey Barre