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Hugging it out

Let the Federal Wrestling and Alpine Games begin!

Swiss photographer Robert Huber has published an illustrated book of Swiss Schwingers – wrestlers – ahead of the Federal Wrestling and Alpine Games Festival 2010. The often homoerotic images, in which 18 men try to get each other to the floor, convey the sport’s power, emotion and techniques.

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