Windsor Wins Canada-USA Tug-O-War over the Detroit River
Friday July 16th, 2010, 11:23pm
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Windsor took home the prize — bragging rights — at the 25th annual Tug Across The River “USA vs CANADA” tug-o-war competition at Dieppe Park Friday evening.
The yearly competition, where enlisted volunteers pull in a long rope stretched to the middle of the river, was over in three minutes and thirty-two seconds.
On the US side, volunteers pulled in their rope from Hart Plaza. The American team finished with a time of 4:02.
Canada is nearly tied with the USA over twenty-five years of the event, the Americans have 13 wins while Canadians have won twelve times.
The USA team pulls in their ropes from Hart Plaza
Relief and congratulations to Windsor!
