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"The annual World Pooh Stick Championships have been cancelled due to the rain. The competition involves players dropping their sticks from a bridge into the river to see whose stick is the fastest to emerge from the other side.  The event, which has been held in Oxfordshire for the last 30 years, was due to take place this Sunday (March 24), but officials have called it off due to poor weather conditions. A statement on the World Pooh Sticks Championships Website reads: &amp;quot;We are very sorry to announce that we have to cancel this Sunday&amp;#039;s World Pooh Sticks Championships. &amp;quot;If we had just had a little rain on the day then we would have still played and we would have splashed around in wellington boots and dropped our coloured sticks over the bridges. &amp;quot;However we&amp;#039;ve had so much rain over the last few weeks that the river is still too high and fast to have our safety boats on the river, and there&amp;#039;s no sign of the rain stopping this weekend.&amp;quot; The website also notes that they hope to reschedule the event for the end of the summer. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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