IT wasn't a good year to be a pigeon in Paris.
For the first – and last – time, the Olympic authorities decided to include live pigeon shooting on their agenda when the 1900 Games were held in the French capital. Leon de Lunden, a Belgian aristocrat, took gold in the main event, having separated 21 of the unfortunate birds from their mortal coils along the way.
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