Good Sports presents “The World Pooh Stick Championships”

The World Poohsticks Championship is held on the bridge near Sandford Lock on the River Thames today.
The championship involved a series of heats. Participants leaned over the edge of the bridge, prepared to release their different coloured sticks. Then at a signal, they dropped the sticks upstream of the bridge and crossed to see whose stick emerged downstream and crossed the finishing line first.
The annual World Poohsticks Championships was previously held at Day’s Lock on the River Thames from 1984 to 2018. There has been a gap of four years with no competition because of a lack of resources and then Covid. This was the first time at Sandford Lock. It has moved from downstream to upstream of Abingdon.
This weekend it's time for the annual UK Wife Carrying Championships. What better way to show you love your partner than hanging them upside down and hanging them around your neck.

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Why isn't it staged at it's home in Sussex?