Chap Olympiad Soldiers on through Driving Rain
The seventh Chap Olympiad, on Saturday 16th July, got off to a damp start, as monsoon-like weather bucketed down on Bedford Square Gardens all morning. Many of the contestants arrived by Kayak. Many...
View ArticleRipping Yarns Hopathon to be Restaged
The writers and stars of the cult television programme Ripping Yarns are to stage a gigantic, public hopathon in London on Saturday 3rd March. To mark the DVD release of “Ripping Yarns The Complete...
View ArticleNew Date Set for Eighth Chap Olympiad
The date for this year’s Chap Olympiad, which will take place over two days instead of one, has now been confirmed as Saturday 7th-Sunday 8th July 2012. Tickets will go on sale on Monday 26th March....
View ArticleChap Olympiad 2012 Tickets Go on Sale
Tickets for this year’s annual sporting occasion for the overdressed have gone on sale. This is a significant year for the Chap Olympiad: after years of covertly observing our sporting spectacle, The...
View ArticleSaturday’s Chap Olympiad Sold Out
Tickets are now sold out for The Eighth Chap Olympiad this Saturday. This year’s Olympiad occurs in the same summer as the “Other Olympics” and for this reason we have made it even more spectacular...
View ArticleEvents and Entertainment for Day Two of the Chap Olympiad
Sunday 8th July 2012 is Day two of the Eighth Chap Olympiad and will feature a selection of events which have proved favourites with Olympians and spectators alike over the last eight years. There will...
View ArticleMr B Composes New Anthem for Chap Olympiad
Light The Olympic Pipe That incorrigible ukulele-toting, rhyme-popping, bon-mot uttering chap hop superstar, Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer, has only gone and composed a special new song for the Chap...
View ArticleChap Olympiad Celebrates Sporting Ineptitude
The 8th Chap Olympiad took place on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July in Bedford Square Gardens, London, its verdant Bloomsbury outdoor stadium for the last five years. The mischievous British weather...
View ArticleThank You From The Chap
The Chap Olympiad Committee wishes to extend a personal thanks to all the sponsors who made 7th and 8th July this year the spectacular event that it was. Firstly, the new Olympic Pipe, showcased during...
View ArticleTickets on Sale for Chap Olympiad 2013
Tickets for the Ninth Chap Olympiad have gone on sale. After the hoohah surrounding last year’s Olympiad, which was shamelessly copied by the British Olympic Committee and turned into a hamburger and...
View ArticleThe Chap Olympics
Held every year in central London, The Chap Olympics will complete its tenth anniversary this year. The Chap Olympics is a celebration of Britain’s sporting ineptitude: sensational cravats take...
View ArticleChap Olympiad Pocket Square
The Chap has produced a new pocket square to commemorate the 12th Chap Olympiad, which took place this year on Saturday 16th July in Bedford Square Gardens, Bloomsbury, London. This handsome article of...
View ArticleHats off to the Chap Olympiad
Long-term millinery associates of The Chap, Laird London Hatters, have a brand-new range of summer hats perfect for swanning about in central London parks on July 16th, during the 12th Chap Olympiad....
View ArticleThe Chap Olympiad 2017
The groundsmen are still mopping up gin and Pimm’s from the grass after last year’s unsporting extravaganza; stray brogues are still being fished out of bushes, ladies’ parasols retrieved from trees –...
View ArticleSaturday’s Chap Olympiad Sold Out
Tickets are now sold out for The Eighth Chap Olympiad this Saturday. This year’s Olympiad occurs in the same summer as the “Other Olympics” and for this reason we have made it even more spectacular...
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