Obsolete Olympics #12: Water Motorsports Traditional Geocache

Obsolete Olympics #12: Water Motorsports

This series of geocaches honors the summer olympics events which had a limited showing and are no longer a part of the program. There will be medals given out for each cache in the series, and the team with the highest medal count will be the overall winner for the series. All rules of the International Geocaching Olympic Committee apply and will be enforced.

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, three motorboat racing events were contested. Various sources refer to the sport as "water motorsports",^[1] "motor boats",^[2] and "power boating".^[3] These Games were the first and only to feature motorized sports, though it was featured as a demonstration sport in 1900.

All three events used the same distance, five laps around an 8 nautical mile course for a total of 40 nautical miles (70 km). In each of the events, multiple boats started but only one finished, due primarily to the gale that was blowing during the course of the competition. Events were held on 28 August and 29 August 1908.