Ep 13: 10 times the Olympics went off the deep end!

That goon Michael Phelps

In this episode, the Brain Bubblegum crew look at 10 times the Olympics were insane, hilarious or downright stupid.

From the Ancient Olympics, to Paris 2024, we pick over some of the weirder events that have happened at or around the Olympics.

Fair warning - there will be olive oil, sweat, blood, hormones, and lots of feathers - some of them a little bit burnt.

Image credit: ‘Michael Phelps on Saturday Night Live, 13 September 2008

Further reading

https://www.nba.com/cavaliers/news/ancient_games_funfacts.html#:~:text=Impress%20your%20friends%20with%20this,only%20the%20stadion%20foot%20race

https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100602&page=1

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/athletics/grindr-paris-olympic-games-2024-33349035#

https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/8/9/16119834/peace-doves-olympic-opening-ceremony-1988-seoul

https://slate.com/culture/2008/08/remembering-the-anthropology-days-at-the-1904-olympics.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism_and_the_Olympic_Games#Anthropology_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_in_St._Louis,_Missouri

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/37009383

https://preservationmaryland.org/preservation-maryland-first-olympian/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Summer_Olympics

https://olympics.com/en/athletes/margaret-ives-abbott

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-1904-marathon-became-one-of-the-weirdest-olympic-events-of-all-time-14910747/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_of_women_in_the_Olympics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony

https://www.topendsports.com/events/demonstration/pigeonshooting.htm#google_vignette

https://www.nba.com/cavaliers/news/ancient_games_funfacts.html#:~:text=Impress%20your%20friends%20with%20this,only%20the%20stadion%20foot%20race

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2014/02/tinder-hook-ups-off-the-hook-among-sochi-athletes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_dove

https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8133052/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Olympic_Games

https://www.history.com/topics/sports/olympic-games#:~:text=The%20Olympic%20Games%2C%20which%20originated,the%20world's%20preeminent%20sporting%20competition.&text=The%20first%20modern%20Olympics%20took,nations%2C%20competing%20in%2043%20events

https://www.firstpost.com/sports/olympic-humour-a-history-of-all-that-was-funny-hilarious-and-absurd-at-the-games-2939400.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298328/#:~:text=This%20mixture%20was%20called%20gloios,after%20the%20scraping%20was%20completed

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-phelps-was-a-frontrunner-to-play-tarzan-204734332.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Kahanamoku

https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100602&page=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Haig_Prieste#:~:text=At%20the%20end%20of%20the%20Antwerp%20Olympics%2C%20spurred%20on%20by,the%20bottom%20of%20his%20suitcase

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Beatie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Haig_Prieste

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/legacy/enews/2014/02/olympic-oddities--see-surprising-historical-highlights-about-ancient-olympic-games.html

https://www.esquire.com/sports/g1226/odd-olympic-moments/?slide=17

https://Olympics.org

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/g3741/100-years-of-olympic-moments/?slide=3

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/olympic-games-weirdest-events

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-12-most-bizarre-olympic-games-moments/Slideshow/2379661/2379656

https://hyperhistory.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=720&op=page#:~:text=Women%20were%20not%20allowed%20to,the%20start%20of%20the%20preliminaries