Kicker: Team USA!

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SOUND: (Finnish announcer and crowd clapping)

REICHARD: America for the win! This time in Finland earlier this month.

ROESLER: Feels good! She did a great job. Went underwater and she didn’t panic.

That’s Caleb Roesler, fresh off a win at the Wife-Carrying World Championship where he and his wife Justine made history as the first non-European couple to take gold.

ROESLER: Never done anything like that—jump in a water puddle with my wife.

The couple used a carrying technique where she rides upside-down on his back and she hung on using her legs. That kept his arms free to run more naturally.

The result: a new course record through hurdles and sand pits ,winning honor, glory and prizes!

As for Justine? No comment at press time. I think I can understand the silence. He got the gold. She got the grit.

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