A new shin-kicking champion has been crowned at the Cotswold Olimpick Games, a sporting tradition which stretches back more than 400 years.
Held on Dover’s Hill, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, on Friday, the event was revived in 1951 after being held first in 1612.
It is said that a lawyer from the area wanted to channel his neighbours’ competitive traits into the rural games, which include long jump, wooden pillar throw, tug o’ war, sack race and running events.
Former chairman Tom Threadgill said: ‘It got shut down for the last time in the mid-1850s because of 30,000 people coming.
‘It’s been banned at
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