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In the 1906 Intercalated Games, competitors fired duelling pistols at plaster dummies from distances of 20 m (22 yd) and 30 m (33 yd). [1]In 1908, pistol dueling was demonstrated as part of the concurrent Franco-British Exhibition, using the Olympic fencing arena and in front of invited guests. [2]
Pistol dueling was a competitive sport developed around 1900 [1] which involved opponents shooting at each other using dueling pistols adapted to fire wax bullets. The sport was briefly popular among some members of the metropolitan upper classes in the US, UK and France. [ 2 ]
Participants wore heavy, protective clothing and a metal helmet, similar to a fencing mask but with an eye-screen of thick glass. Pistol dueling was an associate (non-medal) event at the 1906 and 1908 Olympic games (see Olympic dueling). The Fauré Le Page company of France made special pistols for sport duelling.
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Shooting was one of the nine events at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896. Early competitions included some events now regarded as unusual, such as live pigeon shooting in 1900; dueling in 1906 and 1908; and numerous events restricted to military weapons. After the 1900 games, the pigeons were replaced with clay targets.
For the Summer Olympics, there are 15 venues that have been used for tennis.This counts separately the two different venues of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon: The original Worple Road venue (now used by Wimbledon High School) was used for the 1908 Summer Olympics; the current Church Road venue, opened in 1922, was used for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Duel shooting or dueling shooting can refer to: . IPSC Shoot-Off, a knockout tournament in practical shooting contested with pistol, rifle or shotgun; ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol, a part of the Olympic program since 1896, where rules changed greatly before World War II, and then only slightly changed until two major revisions in 1989 and 2005
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