It may not be an Olympic sport yet.
But husband-throwing in the snow has been going on in Japans’ central prefecture of Niigata since the 18th century.
The custom is practiced in one city every year on January 15th.
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It supposedly started as retaliation by men against outsiders who married local girls.
Three newly-weds took part in this year’s event Wednesday.
The kimono-clad husbands were carried to the top of a hill and thrown one by one into about six-feet of snow.
The husbands then rolled down the slope to their waiting wives.
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