English gentlemen do battle at Chap Olympiad | Bangkok Post: news

Wearing their finest tweeds, stroking their sideburns and filling the air with pipe smoke, competitors and spectators gathered for The Chap Olympiad, an annual celebration of the classic English gentleman.

A man smokes a pipe at The 'Chaps' Olympiad' in central London on Saturday. The event, involving tweed-wearing, sideburn-stroking and pipe-smoking, is an annual celebration of the classic English gentleman.

Hundreds of "chaps" and "chapettes" descended on a leafy square in central London on Saturday for the sporting social occasion, where regular pastimes are overlooked in favour of smoking pipes, ordering butlers about and swilling cocktails.