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Professor Lupin
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PostPosted: April 9, 2008 8:45 pm    Post subject: Trivia question that has been bothering me Reply with quote
Can anyone answer this by using google please?

In 1900 Games, the Belgian Van Langendonck won a Gold medal for a variety of long-jump. What was unusual about this event?

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PostPosted: April 9, 2008 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
They were on horses!!!!
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PostPosted: April 9, 2008 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
lmao are you serious?

thats odd
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PostPosted: April 9, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep, equestrian sports.
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PostPosted: April 9, 2008 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
i like horses. but that seems hard to do a long jump with a horse
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PostPosted: April 9, 2008 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I believe the horse would be the one jumping
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PostPosted: April 9, 2008 9:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Trivia question that has been bothering me Reply with quote
Professor Lupin wrote:
Can anyone answer this by using google please?

In 1900 Games, the Belgian Van Langendonck won a Gold medal for a variety of long-jump. What was unusual about this event?



You copied+pasted that question from this website.
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/Discontinued-Olympic-Events-273339.html

The answer is directly below it. If you found the question, I find it hard to believe you were unable to see the answer.

The answer, copied+pasted from the website, is this...
Spoiler:

Competitors jumped on horseback. The Equestrian long-jump only appeared in the 1900 Olympic Games. For comparison, in the same year, the human-only long jump winner, Meyer Prinstein of the USA, jumped 7.175 metres.


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PostPosted: April 9, 2008 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Arabella wrote:
I believe the horse would be the one jumping


lmao i got that. im just thinking itd be hard to do.
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PostPosted: April 10, 2008 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Actually I didn't someone asked me the question.
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PostPosted: April 10, 2008 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
that someone must be stupid then
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PostPosted: April 13, 2008 7:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, yeah. I don't think horse long jumps belonged in the Olympics, which is a test of human athletic ability, not the horsey's.
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PostPosted: April 17, 2008 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh that's different lol. where did you get?
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