The competition, which also made its debut in the 1900 Olympics, was fairly self-explanatory: competitors attempted to shoot as many pigeons as they could after a large number of them were released into the air. bleak.
The competition had its sole appearance in the Games, and it’s estimated that 300 pigeons were killed overall by Olympic aspirants.
Handgun Fighting The rationale behind the event’s cancellation is not hard to surmise, yet in 1906 spectators were unfazed by participants brandishing firearms and firing at one another.
Two years after the competition started, the organizers changed things up by having contestants shoot at each other with wax bullets instead of dummies. Hurt.
The sport would not be featured in the Olympics again until 1908, so I assume they realized early on that it was a horrible idea, wax bullets or not.
