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Sports
The 2009 Chap Olympiad

When

Saturday 11 July 2009 (noon–11pm)

Where
Bedford Square Gardens (WC1) Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Price
£15
Details
http://thechap.net/content/section_links/olympiad.html
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The Chap, the periodical for cool fogies, hosts a summer sports day in Bedford Square Gardens dedicated to gentlemanly pursuits with the minimum of physical exertion. Visitors are encouraged to dust off their great-grandparents' togs (the more pre-WW2, the better) and prepare to drink period cocktails and food in a celebration of times when pipe smoking and cravattes were the epitome of panache. Activities include the cucumber sandwich discus (self-explanatory); moustache wrestling (attempting to pluck a single hair from each other's face); umbrella jousting; and the timeless "bounders", where men vie to receive the most face-reddening slap by caddishly insulting the ladies present.

Joe Rudkin