Or so thought the Russian shooting team as they arrived at the 1908 Olympic Games in London a few days before the international shooting was scheduled to start on 10 July. But if you look at the results of the 1908 Olympics, you’ll see that all the other countries did well but there are no Russian results for any shooting event. And that is because what was 10 July for the Russians was 23 July in the UK (and indeed most of the rest of the world). The Russians were using a different calendar.
