A twice a week (Monday and Thursday mornings just so you know) 20 episode series of super short podc
Absolutely nothing to do with the Olympics. An hour long in depth journey looking at the historic an
Our last part of an amazing journey. In this final part we look at what is to come - the new sports,
The Olympics - every four years featuring the best of the best athletes from all round the world. Or
Cycling sounds so....normal. But the events in the Games have been incredible, boring, weird and koo
It was meant to be a Games that had all sorts of sports that pushed an athlete to the nth degree. Y
The founders wanted the events to be amateur only with anyone being paid for being professional bein
The first couple of Games astonishingly featured golf, tennis and cricket. For decades after though
Golds for Town Planning? For Poetry? For Painting, Sculpture, Music? Surely not. Here we look at the
Who were the youngest to take part and who were the oldest? How do these incredible sports people fi
The Para, Parallel or Paraplegic Olympics. How they started, how they merged with the Olympics thems
Cheats. Every sport and almost every part of life sees people who chance their arm. This episode loo
Today we look at the sore losers - there are those who compete. And there are those who just cannot
We finish looking at the A-Z of crazy sports that featured in the Paris 1900 bonkers Games. The next
Another delve into the A-Z of crazy sports that featured in the Paris 1900 bonkers Games. This next
We meander into look at next of the A-Z of crazy sports that featured in the Paris 1900 bonkers Game
We start to look at the A-Z of crazy sports that featured in the Paris 1900 bonkers Games. The next
Paris - 1900. The first real Games. And what a Games it was. Almost six months of some of the most b
This episode looks at the very first winners for Team GB in the Olympics and how, these two individu
This episode looks at the 1896 marathon in Marathon, how the marathon came about, why it ended up at
This episode looks at that very first Olympics in Athens in 1896, how it came about and some of the