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Photo of the Day (8.30.09)
Mongolia remains one of the world's last great uncharted territories, a country of seemingly endless grassy steppes, herds of grazing yaks and wandering nomadic villagers. One of the country's unique traditions is Mongolian wrestling, a sport that has been popular here for hundreds of years, dating back to the days of Genghis Khan. Flickr user AprilWang2009 took this superb action photo of two Mongolian combatants locked in the midst of struggle. I particularly like the sense of the movement and the soft focus blurring of the audience behind them. It has a very theatrical arrangement to it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gotravel123.com Aug 31st 2009 9:38AM
I had a great time in Gujarat,India a couple of years ago, explored such local traditional sports like bull fighting, cock fighting and camel running competition etc.
Justin Williams Aug 31st 2009 1:03PM
Beautiful photo. The DOF is spectacular. It almost looks as if it was taken with a tilt shift lens.
nooyawka Aug 31st 2009 10:47PM
Such skinny guys. At the moment Monolian rikishi's [wrestlers] are eating up the competition at the highest level of Japanese Sumo. The winners of the last ten or so tournaments have been Mongolian [with the exception of a Bulgarian, who won once]. The Sumo Mongolians are quite a bit heavier than the striplings in the photo.
uunaa Sep 11th 2009 10:46AM
I have to say this is Inner Mongolian wrestling .