Description

The early days of the modern Olympic Games were ROUGH, here all about a particularly ridiculous year with Saoirse Siné and special guest Mark Cantan.

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Episode Source Material

https://www.britannica.com/event/St-Louis-1904-Olympic-Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWU0c9yNf4k

https://www.history.com/topics/sports/olympic-games

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/

https://library.wustl.edu/bizarre-but-true-happenings-1904-olympics/

https://everything-everywhere.com/the-1904-olympic-marathon/

https://www.history.com/news/8-unusual-facts-about-the-1904-st-louis-olympics

http://www.olympedia.org/editions/3/sports/SWI

https://mashable.com/2016/07/28/olympics-1904-st-louis/?europe=true

https://slate.com/culture/2008/08/remembering-the-anthropology-days-at-the-1904-olympics.html

https://thebiography.us/en/hicks-thomas

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/olympic-games-1904

https://mg.co.za/article/2016-07-07-00-story-of-south-africas-first-black-olympians-keeps-us-guessing/