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The Battle of Montevideo – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 7
The 1967 Intercontinental Cup saw Scottish club Celtic and Argentinian side Racing Club face off across three brutal matches.
In one match, the Celtic goalkeeper was knocked unconscious by a bottle t…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Young Griffo – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 6
Albert Griffiths, or ‘Young Griffo’ began life in the slums of Sydney as the leader of a local street gang. This proved to be the perfect training for boxing, and before he was twenty, he was the Wor…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
The Worst Event in Olympic History – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 5
The 1904 Olympics in St Louis, Missouri, were a disaster in every way possible. Held over six months alongside the World’s Fair, it had a human zoo and a ‘savage Olympics’ pitting various indigenous …
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 4
Days out from the 1994 US Figure Skating Championships, Nancy Kerrigan had just finished training at the Cobo Arena in Detroit when a man approached and hit her with a metal object just above her kne…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Doping in the Tour De France – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 3
From the first Tour De France, riders were putting all kinds of things in their bodies, caffeine, strychnine, cocaine and alcohol.
Drugs were so much part of the sport that the 1930 rulebook, given t…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Tour De France, the Early Years – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 2
The early years of the Tour De France were a hot mess, with a spiked bottle of lemonade, itching powder put in cyclists’ shorts, riders taking rides in cars and trains, attempted murder and pitched b…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
The Strangest Trade in the History of Sport – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 1
On March 4, 1973, it was announced New York Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson would be holding separate press conferences that day.
Both men would be announcing a trade, nothing unusual…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Sports Bizarre Coming Soon
Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy are on the hunt for the most bizarre stories to ever occur in the world of sport.
Sports Bizarre delves into the history of sport to find the stories that you wouldn’t b…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago