• The Weird and Wonderful History of the Olympic Games

  • By: Richard Stokoe
  • Podcast
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The Weird and Wonderful History of the Olympic Games

By: Richard Stokoe
  • Summary

  • A twice a week (Monday and Thursday mornings just so you know) 20 episode series of super short podcasts looking at the incredible people, whacky sports, bizarre events and crazy happenings that have happened in the last 128 years of the Olympic Games. The shows start from 1896 in Athens and the super strange 100m Freestyle for Greek Navy Sailors all the way through to the Breakdancing that will happen in Paris 2024. In between, we will look at the cheats, the mad sports, the deleted events, the Olympic gold medal in town planning, the self administered electric shock torture to win medals and a whole host in between.
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Episodes
  • Episode 15 - Golf, Tennis and Cricket at the Games
    Jun 16 2024

    The first couple of Games astonishingly featured golf, tennis and cricket. For decades after though they never featured again. Yet, like a Hollywood zombie, all three sports are now back in the modern day Olympics. Here we look at how they originally featured, why they were removed and how they are allowed to return.

    A twice weekly 20 part short nugget series charting the strange and fascinating people, sports, cheats, boycotts, doping and so much more that have happened in the Olympic Games since 1896.

    Each episode is stuffed full of the quirky and the crazy and in their no more than 15 minutes make your eyebrows raise, your head scratch and your lips smirk.

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    9 mins
  • Episode 14 - Golds for Town Planning. Yes Really
    Jun 13 2024

    Golds for Town Planning? For Poetry? For Painting, Sculpture, Music? Surely not. Here we look at the numerous Olympics where these featured, some of the best of the entrants and what caused their eventual demise.

    A twice a week (Monday and Thursday) 20 episode podcast series charting the strange and fascinating people, sports, cheats, boycotts, doping and so much more that have happened in the Olympic Games since 1896.

    Each episode is stuffed full of the quirky and the crazy and in their no more than 15 minutes make your eyebrows raise, your head scratch and your lips smirk.

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    9 mins
  • Episode 13 - Youngest and Oldest Competitors
    Jun 9 2024

    Who were the youngest to take part and who were the oldest? How do these incredible sports people fit into the ideals and stereotypes of the Olympics?

    This is a twice weekly 20 part short nugget series charting the strange and fascinating people, sports, cheats, boycotts, doping and so much more that have happened in the Olympic Games since 1896.

    Each episode is stuffed full of the quirky and the crazy and in their no more than 15 minutes make your eyebrows raise, your head scratch and your lips smirk.

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    8 mins

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