Breakfast Bonus: Sports that should come back

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In honour of the games in Paris kicking off this week, we run through a list of sports that used to be included and decide which ones we think should make a comeback!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam thanks
for listening.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
To our Breakfast Bonus podcast about the Olympics and when
you look at the star power of the United States,
even their flag bearers, you've got Lebron James and Cocoa Golf.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Sorry, who've never heard of those.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Two exactly, Although you know, we've got a couple of
powerhouses as well, Aaron Gate the cyclist and Joeyla the
sailor as well. So that's all good. But apparently when
it comes to the Olympics, you know how this year
there's a couple of new events like break dancing is
now an Olympic event. I love that.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I do too. In sport climbing, that'll be fun, and
we've got a sport climber the air.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Fun.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah. But when you pick of the years over the
Olympics and when they started out with nude wrestling, only
only guys could do this. It was nude wrestling.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Wrestling is sports.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
That was the thing way back of the Olympics. When
they first started, the athletes didn't wear clothes. Why, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
It was just dude, at least we're a cloth over
the year.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I agree, or a leaf chuckle the leaf.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I've never seen that in my life. I don't know
where it came from, but.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
These are the ones there used to be in there, right,
so we beckon war. So tug of war used to
be an event at the Olympics. The tug of war.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I actually rate that. I wonder why they got rid
of tone.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, it was at five games between nineteen hundred and
nineteen twenty. So if neither of the team pulled the
other side over the line, you had five minutes to do. This,
by the way, tactually quite good.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Because you think of it. You'd have to assemble, you'd
have to have a limit on the amount of people,
and then you'd just get the strongest, heaviest people, wouldn't you.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
You'd have to you'd stack your team.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'd like to watch that. But it would actually be
a little bit you know, like there'd be strategy of
let the rope go just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh, they're trying to gravity Againah, you gotta be careful
with that because that can make foreign you anyway. So apparently,
if after five minutes no one managed to drag the
other team across, it was whoever performed best. They're judges
to see who's performing best.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Like when by technical wow decision like boxing.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah. Club swinging was a big event at the at
the Olympics for a while until nineteen thirty two. Participants
would perform a routine by swinging clubs like bowling balls
on the end of the clubs. So I guess it's
like do what like just swing them more else.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Like like you know, the basically gymnastics.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Rhythmic gymastics with a ribbon at the time of the
clubird that's what they did.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's basically hammer throw without throwing it.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's a year just dancing around holding onto a year
running deer. So in the nearly nineteen hundreds, what they
do is they'd shoot at a deer shaped target which
would move or run across the thing, and you had
to stand way back at about a distance of seventy
five feet. It was a moving target to get there.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Do you know what? I actually quite like that because
we've still got shooting in the Olympics, but it's a
static target.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes, clay shooting as well. Yeah right, it's kind of
like the AMP show, you got it.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Speaking of guns, though, dueling pistols used to be a
game at the Olympics, and you used to stand there
and have a jewel with someone fire like, what's your fire?
Wax bullets at each other, I know, right, and you
have to dres a long coats when they're allowed to
eat closed. Finally, long coat, pull your gun out, shoots
some one with the wax bullet. Wow, I know. Fencing
with sticks before they had the sorts.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Sticks upgraded to actually killing object.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's it was called singlestick. Apparently.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I love that fencing still a thing because that is
very medieval, isn't it. It's cool think of the jousting
kind of era.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, same in the nights in the end, Yeah, I agree.
Solo synchronized swimming. You might remember this. This was right
up to the nineties. Yes, there is only one person. Yeah,
they had the speakers under the water.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
You're not synchronizing with anyone.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
That was literally called solo synronized swimming.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Called it. It's not swimming. They should just call it
underwater dancing water dancing water dance.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, there you go, exactly, and all this one. Who
I love this, I reckon I should bring this back.
They came this way back in nineteen oh four. Plunge
for distance, So what you have to do? They saw
competitors dive into a pool and then try not to
move for a minute.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
What that is the most ridiculous dive into the water.
So keep yourself down and try and still.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
As you can.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
How do you do that?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Or they wait till they float to the surface. Apparently
it's an amazing spectator event.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Can I just say synchronized swimming is a great spectator reveewe.
I love it. And they do it to such funky music.
Now it's just like a whole other level of dance
because they are powerful those but you look at the
movies are snappy, and they added all involves coming in
and out of the pool and they do big acrobat.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
And some big formation they will create together. But I'll
tell you what that plunge for this and bring that
back dive in stay there.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Jace, I reckon, I reckon. We've found your sport to
injure it.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like a stone.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
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