An engraver can be considered primarily responsible for the rebirth of the modern Olympics

An engraver can be considered primarily responsible for the rebirth of the modern Olympics

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the day, day day, day day, Do do
do do do do do?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Dude, dude.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Today's fact of the day is that an engraver was
almost primarily responsible for the reboot of the modern Olympics.
What an engraver because they took a break from the.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well they finished in like ancient Greece.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, full stop, revitalized in eighteen ninety six, the first
modern Olympics as it is the modern Olympics. Did he
to stand some business, nod some trophies on the go? Yeah,
this guy, Joseph struts his name at an early age.
Yet quite a Joseph Strutt, Lord Doler, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
If he's not a strutter, if he's a wanderer, he's
just yeah, one of the people we have to kind
of move around, like I'd never call you Vaughan Struttander.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah. People that drive to Suzuki Swift's it is so slow,
like it's.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Actually quite swift. Yeah, it's the Jymney that's the slow
poke of them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, Strutt was born to his parents. Elizabeth was his mother.
Finally enough, who's wanted his parents and his father time
of the day, because it's crap, no, no, no, this
is just warming up.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
We're warman up here.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
He was educated and at the King Edward the Sexth
Grammar School, and that is where he kind of developed
a little bit of a taste for engraving, which at
the time engraving wasn't just like on pieces of metal
or signs. It was also how they printed a lot
of books, so that engraved them in mirror and then
use a printing press too. There were the ones where

(01:54):
you could set them out, but of course when it
came to illustrations, you couldn't use pre cut letters, and
so he became a little bit of an illustrator with
the tool of engraving, which when you think about it,
you want the black lines to stick out, you've got
to engrave everything around it.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
You've almost got to carve it, yes space.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
So he wanted to write himself a book, so he
undertook a massive task of the book called the Sports
and Pastimes of the People of England, Rule and Domestic Recreations,
may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants and pompus spectacles from
the earliest period to the present time, illustrated with one
hundred and forty engravings, and they were his engravings which

(02:34):
I have here on my screen.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
All the various recreational tasks.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
This hunting. Here's a man hunting a piggy old school
illustration that digging a fox out of a fox.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh, you probably wouldn't do that nowadays. It's a bit rough.
They are hunting a deer bit rough. And this is
when she's showing him foo foo. No, she's showing him
a hunting Olympics flashing your vas you're fad.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
They're out hunting and it's muddy ground and she's holding
a dress up so it doesn't get mud on.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh I thought she was Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Here I come the food flash from New Zealand represented
New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
In the food flash, it's haby spring. How would you
win the food flash? Just the faster you're fastest to flash?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, So then it talks about I've seen in the
quickest amount of time.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Sports developed from hunting, because of course archery was primarily
for hunting and warfare. But then you know, outside of
how to warfare, they so he basically does all these engravings.
And a man at the called doctor William Brooks founded
the Winlock Olympic Games, and there was these Olympic Games
in the eighteen fifty which was just too in the

(03:49):
working class in the middle of summer to make everybody
be like, hey, let's have some final let's have some competitions,
let's give out some prizes.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
They were like sports, stay at school. Yeah, but what
sports were going to play?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
And he had a copy of this book right, and
it was like archery in and he went through this
book ticking at.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Last year, food flashing the food flash.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
And then he had an argument with the people he
was involved with and split off and formed the Wenlock
Olympic Society, who then got in touch with Greece at
a later time and said, you guys are kind of
running a little bit of an Olympics thing, but you
were only allowed to inter if you spoke Greek. Oh,
and we'd quite like to get involved. And so through
then they developed it. And it's all put down to

(04:29):
the fact that this guy did a book of engravings
of all of England's pastimes.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
That got the Olympics back on track. I got the
Olympics back on track. Oh gosh, incredible.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I cannot wait to proudly wear the silver fern on
my skirt. Eight Yeah, you could be flag bearer. You
could walk in because there was a few facts about
the flag bearer. We were in the flag for New
Zealand and this opening ceremony is four years ago.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Didn't even know this was a sport. But the Fourth
Flash has become a passion. Never thought she'd make it
to the Olympics and now she is one of the
world's best.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
She's given us a little taste of things to come.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Absolutely incredible. A little bit of a breeze off and
he's caught up under the skirt. If you went, I'll
buy you a duck. Get that duck. D's a kid.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
So today's factor to day is the rebirth of the
modern Olympics. Can kind of be pinned down to an engraver.