The scrap heap of discontinued Olympic sports includes some strange, or just strangely named, athletic pursuits Tokyo2020 TokyoTakeTwo Olympics
Rather, it was an admirable attempt to determine the world’s strongest man.
“Holding out one dumbbell in each hand at arm’s length, the bells to be started with the arms perpendicular above the head and dropped down from there to straight out at arm’s length from the shoulder horizontally.”This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Track and field held a 60-metre dash in 1900 and 1904, in addition to the 100m and 200m. The “Milwaukee Meteor” — American Archie Hahn — won all three sprint races at the ’04 St. Louis Games.
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