Jul 31, 2022
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 groups against each other.
But the marathon would be the biggest mess; competitors were refused water, runners were...
Jul 24, 2022
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 knee.
Almost immediately, the FBI would identify four men as behind the attack, all linked to Kerrigan’s main rival, Tonya...
Jul 17, 2022
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 to all riders, reminded them that drugs would not be provided by the organisers.
Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy look at...
Jul 13, 2022
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 battles between cyclists and spectators.
Beginning in 1903 as a marketing exercise to boost the circulation of the...
Jul 11, 2022
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 in baseball where players move around more than children in the back seat of a car.
The assembled media got ready to...