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At the 1908 Summer Olympics three motorboat racing events were contested. Various sources refer to the sport as water motorsports motor boats and power boating. These Games were the only one to feature motorized sports though it was featured as a demonstration sport in 1900.All three events used the same distance five laps around an 8 nautical mile course for a total of 40 nautical miles (70 km).
