Today is the last day of the Swedish Championships Week (SM-veckan), which is kind of like ”the Olympics, but just for Swedes”. It’s a large annual event which is held in a different Swedish city each year – this year in the city of Västerås. It’s a very fun and wholesome, cozy event, very far from the big business and big money of the Olympics.
The event includes a whole range of different sports, from big ones to very small and niche ones – for example miniature golf, petanque, bowling, archery, lacrosse, parkour, dancing, gymnastics, rope skipping, roller skiing, canoeing polo, wakeboarding, beach volleyball, rally, city orienteering and city bicycle racing, just to mention a few. All of it is broadcast live by Swedish public service television (SVT), both on regular tv and online. As part of the event, the ”Swedish Sports City of the Year” is awarded as well. There is also a winter equivalent with many different skiing and skating events, along with for example things like dog sledding.
So I’m simply wondering if there is any similar national championships event in your country as well?