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 July 10. 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 July 10 for the Russians was July 23 in the UK (and indeed most of the rest of the world). The Russians were using a different calendar.
