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Sideline Chatter: Naps? Dumpling? This sport doesn't sound so tough

So who needs the Olympics when you have the Russian Slapping Championships in Siberia to fall back on?

Just picture two sumo-sized guys standing a cross a table from each other trading face-slaps until one gets knocked out or gives up. Vasily "Dumpling" Kamotskiy, a hulking farmer and the Babe Ruth of face-slapping, made news by getting KO'd for the first time, but it's no big deal, he said in a social-media post.

"Today I had a minor nap," he wrote. "I was sort of sleepy today."

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