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The Highland Games, Part 2 The Highland Games are a mixture of fact and fantasy. They are a unique blend of sport and culture. There is highland dancing, bagpipes and drums, and there is a series of sports too. There is usually athletics, sometimes cycling and wrestling, but always the ‘heavy events’. These include the stone shot, the hammer throw and tossing the caber. At most games the caber is people’s favourite sport. It’s the final event and a symbol of the Highland Games. The caber is about six metres long and weighs around fiftyfive kilograms. Competitors have to throw it, then flip it over and the caber has to land flat. If it lands absolutely straight, it’s a perfect throw. The Highland Games are now also celebrated outside Scotland, in the USA, Canada, Australia and the Far East. These games are organised by families who emigrated from Scotland. The biggest Highland Games in the world take place here, in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina