Oman Man Accidentally Invents New Olympics Sport 'Camel Curling' After Trying to Slide Spices Down a Sand Dune
In a move that has left both sports fans and spice merchants equally confused, an Omani man has gone viral after a video of him attempting to slide a pyramid of frankincense across a sand dune was misidentified by the internet as the debut of a new national sport. The clip, captioned "Oman’s secret training for the next Winter Games," shows Ahmed al-Balushi shouting "sweep, sweep!" at a confused camel as a bag of turmeric slides past a finish line made of prayer beads. The meme’s irony lies in the fact that Oman, a country with zero snow and a deep cultural aversion to slipping, is now trending for inventing a sport that requires both. International Olympic Committee officials have reportedly "declined to comment," but local Bedouins are already demanding a gold medal for "most creative use of a khanjar dagger as a curling stone."