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WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "VAIKE-MAARJA, Estonia -- Take it from a world champion: The best way for a man to carry a woman is to dangle her upside down over his back, with her thighs squeezing his neck and her arms around his torso."

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "When the Estonians came with lighter women, he went in search of lighter women, too. In 2001, he found one who weighed 80 pounds. He improved to second place."

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "The Sonkajarvi organizers, seeking to slow the Estonians, in 2002 set a weight limit, but not arbitrarily. Forty-nine kilograms, or 108 pounds, is the least a woman can weigh, 'the weight of Armi Kuusela more than 50 years ago when she was crowned Miss Universe,' the organizers explain."

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "15-second penalty for dropping a wife"

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "'The Finnish wife carriers are like the Boston Red Sox,' "

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "Besides, says Mr. Uusorg, 'she's too heavy. Wait, that sounds bad. She's not fat, she's just too heavy for the competition.' His girlfriend is nearly six feet tall and weighs about 127 pounds. Ms. Soll, his carrying partner, is barely five feet tall and weighs just 101 pounds."

About 48 kilograms," said Eija Stenberg. He asked her to be his "wife." She thought about it overnight and accepted the proposal.

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "'We take too many things seriously,' concedes Indrek Keskyla, the mayor of Vaike-Maarja. He blames the communists who ran this Baltic nation. 'In the old Soviet Union days, we had to be serious, gray people,' he says. Under communist rule, the village pushed to be the best farm cooperative in Estonia. Now, it produces the best wife carriers."