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Competitors, covered with mud, react during the 2018/2019 Wattoluempiade (mud games) in Brunsbuettel, Germany. Around 400 competitors from Germany, Switzerland and the Czech republic performed in several disciplines (like handball, mud races, volleyball soccer) in the mud on the mouth of the Elbe river, near the North Sea.

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