Given the Olympics is always in such a hurry to add new events, it’s a shame they can’t find room for something that only exists as a link to its earliest days
There has been steady tinkering with the event over the past century, but the five disciplines remain. It finishes with a race in which athletes run four 800-metre laps and shoot laser pistols at five targets in between the laps. None of the preceding sentence was satire.
His commitment appears to have lasted about five weeks. News that horse-riding was out leaked last week, was officially denied, and then officially confirmed in a letter to athletes that acknowledged it might be “shocking” to some. There were reports that cycling would replace riding, also subsequently denied, and further reports that a different, unnamed replacement sport had been decided but could not be revealed.
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