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The 1906/8 Olympic games included two-person pistol dueling. The French were favored and won both years.
by ttyprintk 5y ago
The 1906/8 Olympic games included two-person pistol dueling. The French were favored and won both years.
- wfleming 5y agoMy immediate reaction was "how?". (I presumed the organizers would not have accepted an arrangement where they expected to award silver and bronze posthumously.) Apparently they used wax bullets. Fascinating and hilarious. In 1906 it was just firing duelling pistols at dummies, which... c'mon, that's just target shooting with a twist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_dueling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_dueling
- krrrh 5y agoI bet this piece of trivia is something competitive paintballers like to wax over after a match: “Someday Olympic non-lethal gun combat will be restored by the IOC…”