Pigeon racing was contested at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. It is known that there were seven events on the 1900 Olympic Games schedule. These events have generally not been classified as official,[1] although the IOC has never decided which events were "Olympic" and which were not. (according to wikipedia)
I can't decide if I'm happy or not that this is going into ruin, I guess that's because I don't know enough about pigeon racing to know if it's a humane sport of not.
A very good friend of ours used to race pigeons internationally and won many awards. Sadly he passed away recently :-(