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Australia’s first women Olympians, 1912.
Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie won gold and silver in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Absurd Olympic events: Duelling with wax bullets.
The event was held twice. Wearing masks, contestants would try and shoot each other in the face with wax bullets. In the 1908 Olympics, where the event itself was actually held in 1906, the impressively names Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon competed. He is famed for having later survived the sinking of the Titanic.
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Daria Dmitrieva of Russia competes during the Individual All-Around Rhythmic Gymnastics final on Day 15 of the London 2012 Olympics Games at Wembley Arena on August 11, 2012 in London, England.
Photo by: Jamie Squire/Getty Images
Pole Vaulting in Motion:
Bjorn Otto of Germany competes in the Men’s Pole Vault Final on Day 14 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 10, 2012 in London, England.
Photo by: Alex Livesey/Getty Images
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The Official Comic Book Panels of the Day of the 2012 Olympics, Day 17: The time Batman invented bowling in the Ancient Grecian Olympics
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Diagrams showing the trajectory of the major dives as performed at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.
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Risa Shinnabe and Ai Otomo of team JPN defend the net during the Women’s #Volleyball bronze medal match.
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Delphine Ledoux of France competes in the Individual All-Around Gymnastics Rhythmic on Day 13 of the London 2012 Olympics Games at Wembley Arena on August 9, 2012 in London, England.
Photo by: Michael Regan/Getty Images
The St. Bridget of Sweden 1963 Volleyball Champions (Van Nuys, CA.)
Olympic volleyball was first played as a demonstration sport at the Tokyo Olympics of 1964, and then not played officially until 1972, which is also when the “Olympic format” was devised for competition, notably the introduction of a “final round”, consisting of quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.
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A vintage 1908 #olympics pic of an athlete dismounting off of a pommel horse
