Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

Thread Games
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Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics

  1. Standing Long Jump
  2. Tug of War
  3. Cricket
  4. Croquet
  5. Cannon Shooting
  6. Dueling with Pistols (20 and 30 meter distances)
  7. Lacrosse
  8. Two Hands Discus

Not quite as unusual as it sounds. The participants were not required to throw the implement with two hands, but throw it with each hand, and the combined score of each hand was used to determine the winner.

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Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics

  1. Standing Long Jump
  2. Tug of War
  3. Cricket
  4. Croquet
  5. Cannon Shooting
  6. Dueling with Pistols (20 and 30 meter distances)
  7. Lacrosse
  8. Two Hands Discus
  9. Bowling
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Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics

  1. Standing Long Jump
  2. Tug of War
  3. Cricket
  4. Croquet
  5. Cannon Shooting
  6. Dueling with Pistols (20 and 30 meter distances)
  7. Lacrosse
  8. Two Hands Discus
  9. Bowling
  10. Motor boating
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Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics

  1. Standing Long Jump
  2. Tug of War
  3. Cricket
  4. Croquet
  5. Cannon Shooting
  6. Dueling with Pistols (20 and 30 meter distances)
  7. Lacrosse
  8. Two Hands Discus
  9. Bowling
  10. Motor boating
  11. Polo
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Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics

  1. Standing Long Jump
  2. Tug of War
  3. Cricket
  4. Croquet
  5. Cannon Shooting
  6. Dueling with Pistols (20 and 30 meter distances)
  7. Lacrosse
  8. Two Hands Discus
  9. Bowling
  10. Motor boating
  11. Polo
  12. Pelota

Four times, most recently in Barcelona in 1992. No, I hadn’t heard of it before, either: Basque pelota - Wikipedia

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Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics

  1. Standing Long Jump
  2. Tug of War
  3. Cricket
  4. Croquet
  5. Cannon Shooting
  6. Dueling with Pistols (20 and 30 meter distances)
  7. Lacrosse
  8. Two Hands Discus
  9. Bowling
  10. Motor boating
  11. Polo
  12. Pelota
  13. Jeu de Paume

An early form of tennis

About Pelota, it’s closely related to jai alai, which may sound more familiar.
I can’t find a reference for this on Google, but I know that I read decades ago that the right hand of St Francis Xavier (who was Basque) shows characteristic deformations caused by extensive pelota playing. Use of the left hand in pelota is not allowed.

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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936

-“BB”-

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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
  6. Toyko, 2021
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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
  6. Toyko, 2021
  7. Helsinki, 1952
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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
  6. Toyko, 2021
  7. Helsinki, 1952
  8. Athens, 1896
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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
  6. Toyko, 2021
  7. Helsinki, 1952
  8. Athens, 1896
  9. Stockholm, 1912

TCM showed films of the Stockholm games a couple of weeks ago.

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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
  6. Toyko, 2021
  7. Helsinki, 1952
  8. Athens, 1896
  9. Stockholm, 1912
  10. Moscow, 1980

Notable as the US boycotted the event. It would be immoral, after all, for a foreign country to invade Afghanistan, and we wouldn’t want to support that.

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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
  6. Toyko, 2021
  7. Helsinki, 1952
  8. Athens, 1896
  9. Stockholm, 1912
  10. Moscow, 1980
  11. Rome, 1960
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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
  6. Toyko, 2021
  7. Helsinki, 1952
  8. Athens, 1896
  9. Stockholm, 1912
  10. Moscow, 1980
  11. Rome, 1960
  12. Los Angeles, 1984

Boycotted by the Soviet Union, East Germany, and 12 other Eastern Bloc countries, in response to the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow games

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Locations of Summer Olympics

  1. Mexico City, 1968
  2. Antwerp, 1920
  3. Montreal, 1976
  4. Berlin, 1936
  5. St. Louis, 1904
  6. Toyko, 2021
  7. Helsinki, 1952
  8. Athens, 1896
  9. Stockholm, 1912
  10. Moscow, 1980
  11. Rome, 1960
  12. Los Angeles, 1984
  13. Atlanta, 1996

Pass

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All things British

  1. Drive on the left side of road
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All things British

  1. Drive on the left side of road
  2. Bangers and mash