The IOC has agreed to allow the sport of Pooh Sticks to be played at the London 2012 Olympics. The venue chosen for the event is, perhaps unsurprisingly, London’s Tower Bridge. A.A. Milne, who invented the game for his son, would never have imagined that it would one day become an Olympic sport. Competing Olympians will drop sticks into the River Thames from the bridge and then wait to see whose stick will cross the finish line first. Unbeknown to many, there is already a World Championship Poohsticks race that takes place in Oxfordshire each year, but this is the first time that the game will feature as an Olympic sport.
Pooh Sticks to be played at London 2012 Olympics
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