Jousters want sport to be Olympic event

British enthusiasts have launched a bid for jousting - an ancient sport in which riders in steel armor charge and try to knock each other off their horses with a 3.7-meter pole - to be made an Olympic sport.

Long a feature of medieval-themed fairs on the grounds of ancient castles, jousting deserves to be recognized as a "Western martial art" and added to the roster of Olympic events, said professional jouster Dominic Sewell.

"You can see jousts from Russia to Australia to western California," Sewell, suited up in chain mail, told the UK's Sky TV on Thursday.