Bike Polo - an Olympic sport!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/7551046.stm

it used to be.. and a nice quote by Mr Ghandi about it as well

(its #1 on the video)

brilliant i fell well common now :)

Been looking for any photographs of it from 1908 for a while but havent seen any...

bike polo being played at the 1908 olympics at white city, the stadium had a banked circuit around the outside for track cycling

shame no one went to watch!

It was only a demonstration sport in 1908 though i think...

proper rules!
http://www.oakendenpedallers.co.uk/id15.html

and this is the worst form of polo yet..
Segway Polo

Cut to mallets at 1:20. Fucking hell.

bloody san francisco... bloody segways

Wealthy dickheads, living on the edge.

proper rules!
http://www.oakendenpedallers.co.uk/id15.html

Article 12 - Position of play

12.1. In order for a player to touch the ball or attack an opponent, the player must be holding the mallet in their right hand, the handlebar in their left hand, and must not be touching the ground with any part of their body.

Not sure about that! Lefty discrimination or what?

yeah, left handed people used to get sent off the the circus as soon as it was known they were lefties!

and this is the worst form of polo yet..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5092946009863571406

I like how they're wearing bicycle helmets. You guys play on bikes and don't even wear bicycle helmets. Segways are stupid.

When I rule the world segway owners will be one of the first to be put into slave labor.

On their segways ... without helmets!!

I took this in San Francisco a few years back.

I wet myself laughing watching them "train".

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