Olympic Size Podcast

  • Autor: Vários
  • Narrador: Vários
  • Editora: Podcast
  • Duração: 32:23:11
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Sinopse

An unapproved, unlicensed, unaffiliated with the IOC history of the Olympics

Episódios

  • Episode 27: Amsterdam, 1928 pt. 2: Field Hockey Fever!

    28/03/2022 Duração: 01h47min

    The long-awaited conclusion to our series on the 1928 summer games! Will the fears of orgies in the streets be realized? Or will field hockey become the most popular sport of the games, surprising literally everybody including the field hockey athletes themselves? Tune in to find out!

  • Episode 26: We'll Do It Live!

    06/02/2022 Duração: 01h23s

    The Beijing Olympics will not be slowed down by COVID, but Bridget was still somehow caught off-guard. Sometimes you just have to wing it and hope for the best. And at least she knew which season the Games were in, which cannot be said for everybody! With special guest star, Pancake the Pomeranian

  • Episode 25: Amsterdam, 1928 pt. 1: This is the Twentieth Century

    26/10/2021 Duração: 01h02min

    Calvinists vs. modern Dutch architects, who will win? No matter what happens, don't ask the boxing judges.

  • Episode 24: St. Moritz, Switzerland: Smooth, Orthodox Style

    18/10/2021 Duração: 01h10min

    Returning to our historical series with the second official (but first at the time, not retconned) winter games! The Alpine birthplace of bobsledding and skeleton experiences a freak weather pattern that should have destroyed the games but they managed to finish despite the odds, and all common sense.

  • Episode 23: Catch Me If You Can

    26/08/2021 Duração: 42min

    The long awaited, long delayed conclusion to our special series on the 2020ne Summer Games! Surprises in the team events, surprises that these games actually happened at all, questionable statistics, the perils of an unfamiliar public transportation system, the one thing you would expect an equestrian coach to know not to do, and more! All this with just Frank and Bridget, as Sara is too busy having other friends to join

  • Episode 22: My Olympic Games of Whatever

    03/08/2021 Duração: 55min

    Our second special episode of the 2020ne games! Bridget is short on rest and high on stress so let the confused takes fly. An in-depth discussion about Simone Biles, Oksana Chusovitina. high jumping and 100m race surprises along with confused metaphors about hypothetical jazz drummers from the '30s and a special guest star appearance by Hannah!

  • Episode 21: Life Finds a Way

    23/07/2021 Duração: 01h01min

    Inaccurate signage! Political fumbling! Abstinence-only initiatives and garden variety corruption! Missing weightlifters! Not to mention the blatant discrimination and stupid suspensions. The Olympics are back, baby! Join us for a special episode before the fun kicks off in an empty stadium far away from you.

  • Episode 20: Paris, 1924 pt. 2: We Let the Italians In

    09/10/2019 Duração: 01h50min

    We conclude our series on the 1924 summer games with all the splashing, scampering, and hopping you could want! Come for the stories about fame-eschewing Finnish long distance runners, stay for Frank's yodeling.

  • Episode 19: Paris, 1924 pt. 1: Second to None

    25/09/2019 Duração: 01h39min

    Once again, we return to Paris. This time, the welcome is a little warmer. They even invented the Olympic Village! Well, warmer for the Olympics in general if not the Americans. Just ask the rugby team how friendly the crowd was. Along the way we meet a survivor of the Titanic, a gold medalist who takes a bullet, a member of the shooting team who took a break from his massive fraud trial to go compete, a boxer who thought he was playing Hungry Hungry Hippos, and some of the most intense judging of any event ever.

  • Episode 18: Chamonix, 1924: No Gold Medal in Chain Smoking

    29/05/2019 Duração: 01h19min

    Just in time for summer: the first Winter Olympic Games! Except, in classic Olympic style, they didn't realize it at the time. But what's a little retconning between friends? Or questionable associations with fascist dictators? A relatively calm affair with some dark undertones released just before Bridget escapes for a long vacation.

  • Episode 17: Antwerp, Part 2: Halfway Between Socialism and Capitalism

    01/05/2019 Duração: 01h39min

    It's a wild ride to the end. What can top horse vaulting? Miserable facilities for swimming and diving! Stranded Japanese athletes! Outspoken fascists! A brief detour into true crime territory with a murderer using an unexpected weapon! Plus, a love story and a Nobel peace prize winner because sometimes, yes, we do get to have nice things.

  • Episode 16: Antwerp, 1920, Part 1: One Small Leap Over Equines

    17/04/2019 Duração: 01h27min

    It's a brave new post-war world. Who's allowed to come back? Who isn't? How do the Belgians afford it? And more importantly, what sport is so ridiculous that it makes Bridget laugh so hard she loses a contact?

  • Episode 15: Stockholm, 1912, Part 2: Achievable Goals

    17/10/2018 Duração: 01h16min

    Bridget's foreshadowing comes to fruition with the first casualty of the modern Olympic games. Also the ghost of Paris haunts the 100 meter dash, Jim Thorpe displays the best of American athleticism (and courtesy), and Frank finally learns of an Olympic feat he can beat!

  • Episode 14: Stockholm, 1912, Part 1: Point Guard for the Russian Team

    03/10/2018 Duração: 01h16min

    And we're back with part 1 of Stockholm! Thrill when you hear about ancient Viking games! Chill when you hear about Finland's opening ceremony protest! Wonder when we'll get back on topic when Bridget starts rambling about literary terms!

  • Episode 13: London, 1908, Part 2: Ask the Norwegians

    18/07/2018 Duração: 01h38min

    The conclusion of our series about the 1908 London Olympics. Learn why the marathon is the distance that it is, which running events allow body checking (it's none of them), and more about the early Olympics' greatest villain: James Sullivan. Cover image: Octave Lapize, French cyclist.

  • Episode 12: London 1908, Part 1: Political Trouble in the Balkans

    21/06/2018 Duração: 01h03min

    This week we learn about how the 1908 Olympics ended up in London when they were supposed to be in Rome, how long it takes to build a state-of-the-art sports facility, the joys of toddler soccer, and the Olympic debut of both Russia and Figure Skating. Coincidence?

  • Episode 11: Athens 1906: Flagpole Climber

    08/06/2018 Duração: 01h39min

    A slightly delayed but extra large episode about the one and only Intercalated Games. Learn about how many of the Olympic traditions started, from national teams to the Olympic village to ridiculous antics during the medal ceremony when the IOC rejects your protest to be recognized as your own team! (Here's looking at you, Ireland)

  • Episode 10: St. Louis 1904, Pt 3: The Next One Will Be Better

    23/05/2018 Duração: 57min

    In our last episode about St. Louis we cover the track and field events. Features include a bizarrely truncated schedule despite the fact that they had months to compete in, George Poage breaking a racial barrier for American athletes, and the single worst event in Olympic history: the 1904 marathon.

  • Episode 9: St. Louis 1904, Pt. 2: What Killed the Dinosaurs

    09/05/2018 Duração: 54min

    The slog through St. Louis continues, this time with thrilling tales of cyclist Crash McCrea, whatever roque was, and the dangers of inadequate aquatic facilities. Bridget's promises of finishing St. Louis are premature, and this briefly becomes a podcast about the classic 1988 teen comedy about suicide and school shootings: Heathers.

  • Episode 8: St. Louis 1904, Part 1: German, There's No Need to Feel Down

    26/04/2018 Duração: 01h04min

    Part one of our series on the disastrous 1904 Olympics in St. Louis. Here we talk about how the Olympics were stolen from Chicago, the most disgraceful event presented by something called "The Department of Exploitation" to ever be associated with the Olympics, and a couple of German-American guys from Buffalo who were real good at basketball

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