The Worst Event in Olympic History – Sports Bizarre
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 g...
31 Jul 202254min
Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding – Sports Bizarre
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...
24 Jul 202252min
Doping in the Tour De France – Sports Bizarre
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...
17 Jul 202246min
Tour De France, the Early Years – Sports Bizarre
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 ba...
13 Jul 202247min
The Strangest Trade in the History of Sport – Sports Bizarre
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 ...
11 Jul 202247min
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 be...
6 Jul 20221min
