Jousting isn't sport, it's a crazy art. Think Game of Thrones, then double it

More than medieval mock combat, jousting was about sex, spectacle and excess – and Holbein, Da Vinci and Botticelli are among the great artists who participated

If jousting becomes an Olympic sport, as apparently it may, it will be very good news for art. Perhaps we are about to see a new aesthetic era of sport, when rich heraldry and Arthurian imagery will replace relentless commercialism.

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