Slippery customers: Turkish men duke it out in world's oldest OIL WRESTLING championships
These may look like scenes from a movie set in ancient Rome, but this is actually the Kirkpinar oil wrestling championships in modern-day Turkey.
Wearing only leather trousers and smeared with olive oil, these athletes about to competing in the oldest sports competition in the world.
The first competition took place near Erdine in 1362, when it was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, with most of the competitors being soldiers.
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