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The Chap Olympics

Zeke Posted: Sun, 16/07/2006 - 1:11am
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Anyone happen to see or go to this!? Gotta be there next year, looks like a good laugh!

P.S. All images taken from the BBC website, along with comments.


The annual event is hosted by Chaps Magazine - the bible for traditional gentlemen who are against the vulgarity of modern culture. The opening ceremony includes the lighting of the Olympic pipe.


These Olympics are for the immaculate of trouser, the frail of form and the fearful of sport. It celebrates panache rather than athleticism. In the Bounders discipline chaps approach a lady, behave like cads and the one who is slapped hardest around the face wins.


Michael "Atters" Attree is grooming editor for Chaps. For him being a "chap" is a way of life, not a hobby. He dresses like a gentleman everyday. His event was the three-trousered limbo.


Chapettes also took part. In the three-trousered limbo pairs share enormous trousers, run to a limbo pole and try to go under it. The trousers must remain at a discreet level, with points deducted for underwear revelation.


Any chap - or lady - of worth smokes a pipe. In the Pipe Relay a lit pipe is passed between teams of three along a gruelling 100-yard course. Wearing any kind of sportswear at the games results in instant disqualification.


Contestants hop, skip and jump holding a brimming gin and tonic. The winner is the one left with the most drink in their glass.
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Zeke Posted: Sun, 16/07/2006 - 1:14am
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A quill is thrown at a target as poetry is read out. Extra points are awarded for epic, metaphysical or absurdist verse.


Ladies astride their equine-attired mounts race each other, with some surprise hurdles along the way.


Teams compete to mix a dry martini, with the handicap of having no butler to do it for them.


Julia Finlay and Shelley Hannan like the "eccentricity" of the event and dressed suitably for the occasion. "Why not make an effort?" they ask.


A chap or a cad? Zinedine Zidane's infamous World Cup headbutt is re-enacted by two chaps.


The prize? Gold, silver and bronze cravats of course, among other things.
bresone Posted: Sun, 16/07/2006 - 1:16am

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haha crazy shit
Sol Posted: Sun, 16/07/2006 - 1:33am
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I've seen everything now.
YellowBear Posted: Sun, 16/07/2006 - 1:40pm
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I would... and in that...
Martinmargiela2002 Posted: Sun, 16/07/2006 - 1:43pm
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I was thinking the same. Laughing out loud
Gurr Posted: Sun, 16/07/2006 - 2:24pm

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well if beastiality is your thing......each to their own.
michael Posted: Sun, 16/07/2006 - 2:30pm
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ugly lot.
breeding. ha. more like incest.
nick Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 9:01am
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Looks like a good laugh and a excuse to wear my monocle.
jet Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 3:40pm

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i'm all for high maintenance dressing, but must these rah-rahs congregate in ruddy-faced packs (yes, yes, easier for hunting of course).

essentially, they're just as cool as any group of people who dress up and act like pricks all day before returning to their city job - doesn't matter if the outfits mimic chaps, nazis or warlocks - it's all the same to me.
Hello World Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 3:46pm
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Thats just nerd level roleplaying shit at its highest, as stated above no differnt to a vampire club, or death metal fans etc.
Martinmargiela2002 Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 3:53pm
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I see nothing wrong with it to be honest, so I don't understand all the hate. It may just be a one day event where on the other 364 days of the year they may dress in ways that you may percieve to be 'normal'.
MoB Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 4:09pm
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i agree with MM2002, why the hate???
Noble Locks Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 4:12pm

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i automaticaly thought of priotege moi (where is he lately. ive missed him), and that time he said "bring your knee up into his nuts' or something of the like, and i 'gentleman thugged' him off. Laughing out loud
michael Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 4:14pm
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i doubt this moustache and the man hes wearing ever dress 'normal'.
Martinmargiela2002 Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 4:18pm
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and dressing like the terminator is?

Read what I said again, it may just be a dress-up day.

Anyway, it's just aristocratic wear, which is a style and there-fore 'normal' to the people that wish to adopt that look.
jet Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 4:28pm

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Martinmargiela2002 wrote:

and dressing like the terminator is?

Read what I said again, it may just be a dress-up day.

Anyway, it's just aristocratic wear, which is a style and there-fore 'normal' to the people that wish to adopt that look.

but it's not just for a day, it has its own bloody manifesto. i'm not suggesting that anyone should track these people down and suffocate them, i'm merely stating that i find them quite boring.

the clothes i can live with, it's the whole 'harking back to a more polite era' that pisses me off.
Noble Locks Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 4:30pm

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i find it quite racialy offensive in this day and age.
MoB Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 4:33pm
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it cant be racist, look theres an asian bloke here. Unless he's the hired help. in which case his arm should be chopped off for putting it on old tarquin there.

jet Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 4:42pm

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perhaps not racist, but certainly not inclusive.
nick Posted: Mon, 17/07/2006 - 5:31pm
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No worse than the cnuts that turn-up for Ascot looking like an explosion in a feather/fabric factory.
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