A player takes his turn in a game of bowls at Finchley Bowling Club in north London. At the same time as athletes from around the world are taking part in the London Olympics, millions of Britons will be indulging in popular summer sports that you won’t see at the Games. Cheese-rolling, caber-tossing, bowls, golf and cricket have little in common except for their origins in Britain’s parks and village greens—and the fact that they are excluded from Olympian glory.
