TOM EATON | Coiffed poodles, town planning and computer games — what’s the next Olympic fad?
Olympic medals have been handed out for some strange activities in the past, writes Tom Eaton
05 August 2024 - 21:29
In 1899 an angry huddle of Parisian writers and artists signed a letter in which they denounced the arrival in their beloved city of a vast and hideous object: a monstrous tower, designed and erected by an engineer named Eiffel...
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