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One story from each Olympic Games — no match commentary, just the moments that changed everything.
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15 NOV 2026 · The Olympic torch relay feels three thousand years old, but it was invented in 1936 by German organiser Carl Diem for the Berlin Games, a flame lit by the sun at Olympia and carried by more than three thousand runners across Europe. It was designed as propaganda, yet it outlived its makers and became the most loved ritual in sport. This episode includes AI-generated narration.
14 NOV 2026 · Every marathon in the world is run over exactly 26 miles and 385 yards, and that number was never chosen on purpose. It is the distance from Windsor Castle to the Royal Box at White City Stadium in London, 1908, where an exhausted Italian pastry chef named Dorando Pietri fell five times on the final lap and was disqualified for receiving help. This episode includes AI-generated narration.
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13 NOV 2026 · For three weeks every four years, the Olympic Games build a small city, fill it with the fittest people on earth, and then take it down again. This episode opens the file on the Olympic Village: the first village at Paris 1924, the first modern village at Los Angeles 1932, and Paris 2024, where 14,500 athletes lived in 82 buildings that are now becoming 2,500 homes. It explains how a village built for three weeks becomes a neighbourhood. This episode includes AI-generated narration.
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12 NOV 2026 · One race of people, two flags — and one night when the Olympics asked them to walk under a single banner instead. This episode follows the Korean unification flag, a flag that belongs to a country that does not exist: the first joint march at Sydney 2000, the first joint team at PyeongChang 2018, and the 1991 table tennis precedent in Chiba. It shows how a flag belonging to nobody lets rivals share it, and why sport can prove that walking together is still possible. This episode includes AI-generated narration.
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11 NOV 2026 · On the 24th of March 2020, the International Olympic Committee made a phone call it had never made before: the Tokyo Olympics would wait a year. It was the first postponement in the modern history of the Games, which had survived boycotts and financial disasters for more than a century — only war had ever cancelled them, in 1916, 1940 and 1944. This episode explains why the calendar bent so the agreement could survive, and what that says about protecting the promise underneath a plan. This episode includes AI-generated narration.
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