#61 Olympics (Part 2)

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! Ready, set.. and go for this week’s episode which is on: The Olympics. We’ll be chatting about the ancient Olympics, McDonalds infamous mid-80s marketing campaign for the Los Angeles Olympics and a certain Welsh Olympian known as ‘the human torpedo’. And the world has a new BEST podcast feature: The Museum of Failure. What can we put in it alongside Woolworths, the zeppelin and betamax? Please present your exhibits to: [email protected] If you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER? In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get: - two bonus episodes every month! - ad-free listening - episodes a week ahead of everyone else - And first dibs on any live show tickets Subscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.com You can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepod And Instagram at @ohwhatatimepod Aaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice? Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk). Chris, Elis and Tom x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And this is part two of the Olympics.
0:02.6	Let's crack on, shall we? Okay, who was the greatest British Olympian of the 20th century?
0:17.0	Okay, who was the greatest British Olympian of the 20th century?
0:22.0	So, I think a lot of people might answer Steve Redgrave.
0:26.9	Yep. Yeah. Yeah. We're in gold medals at LA 84, Seoul 88 Barcelona 92 and Atlanta 96 and then he won at Sydney in the year 2000.
0:38.0	So one goal in the 21st century, 4 on the 20th, Daly Thompson. Yeah,
0:43.0	Yeah, Laura Kenny, Harlow's finest.
0:45.0	Yeah, in 1980, well 20th century though.
0:48.0	The name always pops into my head,
0:50.0	is Linfer Christie, but then did he actually do that well at the Olympics?
0:52.0	Or what's, what's, what's, what's what's what is my thinking with the Olympics?
0:53.6	He got silver in 88 and he won gold in 92.
0:57.6	I did did he okay well so he was upgraded to silver for bronze in 88 because
1:01.6	obviously Ben Johnson was done for steroids.
1:04.7	So yeah he was Olympic champion and at one point he was world because he won the
1:10.7	worlds in 93 he was World Commonwealth Olympic and European champion.
1:14.7	Wow.
1:15.7	But in terms of Olympic medals 21st century obviously you know more far a win in the double
1:21.0	double five and ten meters, but probably Steve Redgrave, I would say is the one that most people
1:28.1	Yeah, absolutely. But Redgrave's achievement in 96 matched and then surpassed in 2000.
1:36.8	A different sportsman from the other end of the century, the water polo champion and Olympic
1:41.6	swimmer, Paolo Radmilovich. Now Radmilovich was born in Cardiff on the 5th of March
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