Dakar Mash-up Combines Swiss and Senegalese Wrestling Traditions
Three Senegalese and three Swiss wrestlers traded traditional gear and styles in a cultural exchange that mixed rituals, songs and competitive matches.
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Africa NewsDakar mash-up combines Swiss and Senegalese wrestling traditions
As part of a cultural exchange, three Senegalese and three Swiss wrestlers faced off Sunday in Dakar, mixing their own ancestral wrestling traditions. The event was organised on the sidelines of the Youth Olympic Games which opened in Senegal on Saturday, marking the first ever Olympics on African soil. The encounter started with the Swiss wrestlers trading in their usual getups for Senegalese wrestling attire. In Switzerland, traditional wrestl…
Between ancestral traditions and cultural brewing, six Senegalese and Swiss wrestlers clashed on Sunday in Dakar, during an event organized on the margins of the Olympic Youth Games (JOJ), opened on Saturday in Senegal and the first Olympic event organized on African soil. For this meeting, the Swiss wrestlers traded their usual outfits against that of their hosts. In Switzerland, the fight - or "Schwingen" - is practiced with a thick panties in…
Two cultures of the struggle met: in Dakar, on the sidelines of the Olympic Youth Games (JOJ), Senegalese and Swiss wrestlers exchanged their traditional outfits for an event that made both athletes and the public happy. At the entrance of a terrain in a suburb of Dakar, the bags ...
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