Do you miss the excitement of the hammer stroke or the Irish peel at the Olympic Games? No? Then you're probably not devastated that the thrill-a-minute sport of croquet is no longer an Olympic event. Some other discontinued sports, such as rope climbing and shooting live pigeons, are familiar to me. But I have never heard of distance plunging.
The event required athletes to dive into the pool and coast underwater without moving their limbs. After 60 seconds had passed – or competitors had floated to the surface, whichever came first – referees measured the distance the athletes had drifted.
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