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The World's Greatest Pedestrian – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 12
In the late 19th century, one sport stood above all others in terms of popularity, pedestrianism. That's right, walking.
Tens of thousands of people…
3 years, 4 months ago
Shadow Games – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 11
Sport is fun, but it's a lot of effort to organise, run a whole competition, and then fix the result so you can win a lot of money through betting.
T…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Voyage of the 1932 Brazilian Olympic team – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 10
In 1932, with the world going through the Great Depression, Brazil had no money to send its Olympic team to Los Angeles.
Then a government official h…
3 years, 5 months ago
Jese Rodriguez – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 9
Jese Rodriguez was a future star in the soccer world, but things like a music career and discovering he was a father via Instagram sent things sidewa…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Dangerous World of Speed Gluing – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 8
In the final of our series on Table Tennis, we look at the use of glue to cheat in table tennis.
When Hungarian player Tibor Klampár discovered volat…
3 years, 5 months ago
Mao and Nixon play Ping Pong – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 7
In the early 1970s, with China and the United States locked in a Cold War struggle, it took Ping Pong to save the world.
With diplomatic ties severed…
3 years, 6 months ago
Stalin, Hitchcock and table tennis – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 6
The sport of table tennis or ping pong, or as it was once known, Whiff Waff, has arguably had a more significant impact on world history than any oth…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jimmy "The Whirlwind" White – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 5
By the time Jimmy White was 13, he was skipping school and travelling around England in a black cab to play snooker and hustle adults out of their mo…
3 years, 6 months ago
The very odd Marquis of Queensbury – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 4
Completing our look at the early days of boxing, we pick up where the sport moves from having no rules whatsoever to having at least three of them. I…
3 years, 6 months ago
The unruly early days of boxing – Sports Bizarre
Season 2 Episode 3
In the seventeenth century in England, the earliest form of modern boxing emerged, a wild free for all style of fighting that included eye gouging, h…
3 years, 7 months ago