wineturtle wrote:
In Modern Pentathlon contestants are assigned random mounts supplied by the host nation so there was no need for teams to bring their own mounts. Skills an officer might use escaping and evading capture when on a mission to deliver messages and military intelligence--- shoot, fence, swim, steal horse and ride, run cross country.
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Mr. Obvious wrote:What about the pentathlon? Isn't that one of the two Olympics our own jtupper competed in the games? Did he do that in Melbourne or in Stockholm? I had never heard of this, so I am curious.