The Olympic Pipe Comes Home

The 2008 Chap Olympiad took place on July 12th in Hampstead Heath, London. The first event was "find the location" which involved visiting a number of reputable Jermyn Street outlets to collect seven tokens, containing clues to the co-ordinates. After an invigorating saunter through the Heath, some 400 exquisitely dressed souls laid out their picnic hampers and limbered up for the contest by opening bottles of Pimm's, champagne and wine and firing up their briars.

Ten events then unfolded, all open to the spectators, including cucumber sandwich discus, hop, skip and G&T and Greco-Roman wrestling. The latter featured a late entry from Chap-O-San, a mysterious oriental in an inflatable sumo wrestler's suit. His menacing opening moves soon proved easy to overcome, and the winner was a miss Tallulah, who managed to smother Chap-O-San with her magnificent decolletage. Miss Tallulah also won the Gold Cravat in the final prize-giving ceremony, with the silver going to Dan Howarth and the bronze to Farhan Rasheed.

Next year's Olympiad will be the first in the run-up to London hosting the comedy olympics, and accordingly we hope to go spectacularly over budget and showcase a disappointing opening ceremony.

Photographs of the 2008 Chap Olympiad may be viewed at Elisabethblanchet.com and pbase.com