Russia Bizarrely Promotes Winter Olympics by Making People Exercise for Train Tickets [Video]

The Winter Olympics are a showcase of the world's greatest athletes, but pretty soon they may also be a showcase for the world's fittest fans.

To help get people psyched for the upcoming Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, a specially-rigged ticket machine was set up at a train station in Moscow, in which people could only get tickets by doing 30 crunches.

That's right -- they had to physically exert themselves.