Olympic Trivia - New meaning to 'playing hurt'

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DaleA

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I posted this in another forum at the start of the last Olympics and thought I might share it again here.

In the 1924 Olympics held in Paris, France USA competitor Army Lieutenant Sidney Hinds shot a perfect score in the Free Rifle Three Position Team event to help the US get the gold medal.

What makes this really remarkable is that Hinds managed a perfect score even though half way through the event a dispute arose between an Olympic official and a Belgian competitor in the lane next to Hinds during which the Belgian competitor dropped his rifle which went off and shot Hinds in the foot.

Despite his injury Hinds finished the match without dropping a point.

From The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics Athens 2004 Edition.

Someone with the screen name Solo Flyer provided a link to even more info about the event, here's what they posted.
Here is interesting account of the event with Sidney Hinds.
The story states the team used the'International Match Caliber 30. of 1924.'

http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/distinguishedStory.cgi?distID=2675
Click to expand...
 
Kinda makes you wish you go on the field and p*** on those soccer boys who fall down and cry when someone gets near their shin, don't it.:mad:
 
Guy was a stud, antithesis of the soccer girlie-men. :)

Off topic Olympic trivia: Name the defending Olympic gold medalists in rugby.








The United States of America, Paris, 1924. We also took gold in 1920. Mind you, there were only two teams entered in the '20 Games, and three in the '24 version. Rugby was dropped after the '24 gold metal match in Paris, for a number of reasons, including the black eye suffered by the sport after the French fans stormed the pitch and attacked the Yanks at seeing their boys lose. Rugby union was last seen as an exhibition sport at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
 
Okay, without looking it up (Inever card about it) I'm sure it has to be something way out there. Hmmmm... Indonesia? Bali? Peru? Croatia?
We wait with baited breath.....
 
He answered it in the same post in which he posed the question - it's the United States. Of course, I don't know if it's correct to call us the "defending" Rugby squad, since Rugby isn't an Olympic sport any more. "The last guys to win it before it went away" would be more accurate. :D
 
Rugby was dropped after the '24 gold metal match in Paris, for a number of reasons, including the black eye suffered by the sport after the French fans stormed the pitch and attacked the Yanks at seeing their boys lose

They probably couldn't even to begin to imagine the crap the "soccer hooligans" get up to now, eh?
 
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