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Billiards, “a kind of sport pretended to be the Olympic one”

September 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Just Sovoks, The Official Sovok of the Week


Billiards Cup in Samara

This is precious:

“Russian billiards is 300 year old. Peter I , Ekaterina II, Pushkin, Gogol, Shalyapin, Budennyi, Zhukov, Chkalov and Gagarin are famous people united by lust to billiards. Nowadays the billiard is a kind of sport pretended to be the Olympic one.

The representatives of 15 regions arrived to Samara where there will be held the elimination competitions to the World Championship.”

DJ VadimJ

Thanks to Wendie for submitting this.

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  • 1 Guest // Sep 13, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    There’s nothing about billiards on Gogol’s wikipedia page.

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