[1] Participants compete in novelty games such as the mud sumo tournament, the 25m dash and the surf board race.
[2] The Ariake Sea has a tidal range of six metres, which on a low tide, exposes the mudflats on which the games take place.
[3] When the prefecture plan for Saga was published in 1984, it was decided that Kashima City would not have a highway or a Shinkansen connection.
He created a committee called "Forum Kashima" to improve the city's cultural calendar.
The term "Gatalympics" comes from the name of mudflats in Japanese, Kashima Higata (鹿島干潟) and the Olympics.