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Sports Bizarre

Sports Bizarre

Sport Bizarre

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 believe if they hadn’t happened. No sport is off-limits, athletics, swimming, rugby, American Football, cricket, baseball, badminton, motorsports, tennis and even that sport on the ice with brooms Sports Bizarre is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube.

36 - The Dangerous World of Speed Gluing
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  • 36 - The Dangerous World of Speed Gluing

    In the final of our series on Table Tennis, we look at the use of glue to cheat in table tennis.

    When Hungarian player Tibor Klampár discovered volatile glues gave the rubber on bats 30 per cent more spin and speed, it led to an arms race for the most toxic glues.

    Titus O'Reily and Mick Molloy look at the dangerous trick that led to players passing out and police raiding table tennis shops.

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    Sun, 26 Mar 2023
  • 35 - Mao and Nixon play Ping Pong

    In the early 1970s, with China and the United States locked in a Cold War struggle, it took Ping Pong to save the world.

    With diplomatic ties severed between Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, the US Table Tennis team were sent to China to mend relations. Things got off to a rough start when one member of the US team converted to Communism and two others played an imaginary game of table tennis in the street, almost starting a riot.

    Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy examine the rise of Table Tennis in China and how the US Table Tennis Championships were once kicked out of a venue by El Mongol, a not-so-famous wrestler.       

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    Sun, 19 Mar 2023
  • 34 - Stalin, Hitchcock and table tennis

    The sport of table tennis or ping pong, or as it was once known, Whiff Waff, has arguably had a more significant impact on world history than any other sport.

    In this episode, we look at the life of Ivor Montagu, the man who built table tennis into an international sport while also making films with Alfred Hitchcock, hanging out with Charlie Chaplin and spying for the Soviets during the War.

    Mick Molloy and Titus O'Reily examine a sport that connects Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao, King Charles, HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw and General Douglas MacArthur.

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    Mon, 13 Mar 2023
  • 32 - Jimmy "The Whirlwind" White

    By the time Jimmy White was 13, he was skipping school and travelling around England in a black cab to play snooker and hustle adults out of their money. Turning professional, Jimmy quickly became the most beloved snooker player in the world while...

    Sun, 05 Mar 2023
  • 31 - The very odd Marquis of Queensbury

    Completing our look at the early days of boxing, we pick up where the sport moves from having no rules whatsoever to having at least three of them. It's the nanny state gone mad. We meet the man who lends his name to these new rules, the 9th Marquess...

    Sun, 26 Feb 2023
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