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Great Britain’s unlikely Mölkky heroes (Picture: Neil Squires)

The popular 90s film Cool Runnings told the tale of the unlikely heroes of Jamaica’s bobsleigh team at the Winter Olympics. By swapping Jamaica for West Yorkshire and bobsleigh for a Finnish skittles game, we have a 2026 equivalent in The Fall and Rise of The Mölkky Bar Kids.

If you haven’t heard of Mölkky you won’t be alone. Without diving too deeply into the details, it is a game of throwing wooden sticks at other wooden sticks.

It is a pursuit that people in their fifties with little sporting pedigree can pick up pretty easily and that is where our heroes come in.

The Mölkky Bar Kids, as they come...