Historian Reacts - History's Worst Olympic Marathon in a Nutshell by BlueJay

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[@samrevlej9331]

3:10 Kind of an oversimplification. The Olympic Flame was reintroduced in the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympics, as a kind of revival of Hestia's fire which supposedly burned during the ancient Olympics. It was kept up in 1932 in LA. In 1936, the Berlin Summer Olympics were hosted by everyone's most hated bastards (hereafter rechristened the Nutsacks). Carl Diem, the main organizer, developed the idea into a torch relay (ironically adapted from Jewish sports official Alfred Schiff) from Greece to Berlin, in order to showcase the Nutsacks' "organizational skill" (still couldn't bring blankets for the Russian winter though).

[@andromeda331]

That marathon is hilariously terrible. I first heard about it watching Puppet History.

[@samrevlej9331]

4:17 Oh no, trust me, you don't want to host the Olympics. As a resident of Paris who has to see the 2024 Summer Olympics come here, couldn't be less thrilled. Mass influx of spectators, inflation of already sky-high rents (thanks AirBnB), crowding of pubic transportation, and of course humiliation on the world stage with logistical failures because both our city government and our national one are clowns unfit to organize a birthday party.

[@josephguillerey4391]

i'd add, as a land surveyor, since Paris got the games in 2017, every single worker knew 7 years was nowhere near enough time to build all of the constructions needed. We all said from the start the organisers had no idea how much time it would take. But they decided to go along anyway, only realising now that most of it won't be finished on time. (and the pandemic didn't help either on that aspect.

[@diegonayahernandez6801]

NICE VERY NICE THANKS

[@oliversherman2414]

BlueJay makes such halarious content 😂

[@donovanhadley2209]

I grew up in St. Louis, and it's not that bad here.