The Rings Cycle – Your Historic Sporting Fact of the Day from The Daily Constitutional in LondonSaturday 11th Modern Pentathlon
The Pentathlon was introduced in the Stockholm Games of 1912 and was the brainchild of Baron Coubertin himself – founder of the Modern Olympic movement. The Swedes took gold, silver and bronze that year, but in 4th place was one G.S Patton – later General George “Ol’ Blood & Guts” Patton of WWII fame.
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