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- At the Olympic Games, pigeons were released from spring boxes in the center of a fenced ring, and the object was to see who could drop the most birds within the ring. The game was becoming more formalized, though shooting stations could range from 25 to 35 yards.
- The 1900 Olympics in Paris had the great distinction of being the first Games where women competed. It also wore the ignoble badge for this sport, where athletes aimed to bring down as many pigeons.
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It’s been a long and nervous wait but at last the Stitch London Olympics have begun! Stitch London’s star handmade athlete, Cooey the Pigeon (who you can find a kit to make in the front of every single Stitch London book), has set herself the challenge of taking on all manner of stitched sports over the Olympic weeks.
A pigeon racing event was an unofficial sport at 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. There were six events contested, open to any French team located more than 80km from Paris. Each team was required to release at least 100 pigeons. In total, 7,721 pigeons were released from 48 teams (source: 1900 Olympic Games Official Report).
It all began with a torch relay which saw the purly pigeon parade with her fibrous flame to rapturous applause: Game pigeon review.
The opening ceremony wowed spectators with an appearance by the actual knitted Queen and two of her crafty corgis.
The little knitted Queen welcomes Cooey to the pigeon's Olympic Games
Before the event began Cooey spent some time getting to know some of the many visitors to her lovely home of London. Here she is celebrating Team Denmark with an inflatable bigger than she is.
Sadly on arriving at the Olympic Park Cooey was informed she wasn’t listed on any of the events. Not one! The horror!
Cooey outside the Olympic park with the saddest pigeon face known to man
After spending some time calming her down we decided that Cooey don’t need no stadium! She’s a London pigeon and she’ll bust out her competitive sport where she pleases.
Ladies, Gentlemen and Purly Pigeons everywhere LET THE STITCH LONDON OLYMPICS BEGIN!
EVENT 1: JAVELIN
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Cooey takes to the London roof tops with her makeshift Javelin. Watch out below! Some one is going to get a 25mm bamboo in the eye…
Cooey aims to throw the pointy projectile as far as her tiny wings can make it fly. Dammit!
EVENT 2: JUDO
Cooey faces off against American pigeon Cashmere ‘Chuck’ Brown in a nail-biting match pitting purled pigeon against pigeon.
Cooey wows the crowd with a match-winning woolly wing throw
I’ll be covering all Stitch London Olympic events right here at Whodunnknit so stay tuned!
Live Stitch London Olympic coverage: Stalk me on Twitter @deadlyknitshade, or follow @cooeythepigeon. We’re on Instagram @deadlyknitshade and there’ll be live pics on Facebook at Whodunnknit. It’s the social media Stitch London Olympics!
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Want to make your own Cooey the Pigeon or little knitted Queen? Get your paws on the Stitch London book! It comes with a free Cooey the Pigeon kit and raises money for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research!
Shooting has long been a staple at the Olympics, with the sport appearing in the first modern Olympics in 1896. While competitors typically shot at disc-shaped targets called clay pigeons, the 1900 Games in Paris went with livelier targets – real pigeons. Live birds were held and released, as athletes took aim at the moving targets. Reportedly more than 300 birds were killed in the event. Although PETA wasn’t around at the time to protest the use of animals, Olympics officials decided to skip the living targets from then on. When the London Games of 1908 featured running deer as targets in the shooting event, cardboard cut-outs were used.
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