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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
How Great Britain Dominated the 1908 Olympics
From a Wall Street Journal article on Britain's efforts to increase its medal count for the 2012 London Games:
Though the 2012 team may be the finest in Britain's modern Olympic history, it isn't likely to beat the country's medal tally from the 1908 London Games, when British officials drew up the program of events and included oddball sports such as motorboat racing, the tug of war and rackets, allowing Britain to scoop 146 medals. "Nobody else [besides the British] really knew the rules," Polley said.
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