The Surprisingly Fascinating First Trip to "The Games"

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[@maddhatter0]

I saw "1st Olympic games" and I was excited for ancient history and Greek facts...So much for that.

[@SunflowerSpotlight]

Yeah “Modern,” would be a super modifier in the title.

[@jonathantatler]

I love the cyclists (11.10) one,who waited while the other repaired his bike. Two TRUE competitors again each other, not the machine, just each other.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

Totally!!! That's a true champion

[@NewGoldStandard]

@Jonathan Parks I'm not knowledgeable about cycling by any stretch of the imagination but I do catch a few stages of The Tour de France when I can and I've never seen anything like this example.

[@rrai1999]

@@NewGoldStandard There are way too many people in the tour de france for it to stop for one person having an issue.

[@MandyJMaddison]

Yes, I will never forget the sight of Australia's Sara Carrigan in the 2008 Women's Road Race in Beijing. As the rain bucketted down and lay in sheets across the road, Sara led the pack for mile after endless mile, while the rest of the World followed quite literally in her wake. Ultimately, people passed her, and she came in 28th. She didn't get a gold medal, as she had in 2004, but she was the Hero. Her amazing courage and stamina made finishing that race, under those ghastly weather conditions, a possibility for many of the other competitors, who without Sara would have fallen by the wayside.

[@who-man7699]

I'm not sure of the guys name who dropped out of Harvard to goto the Olympics and he didn't go back but they offered him am honorary doctorate and he refused that has to be one of the most admirable things I have ever heard of that man stood by his beliefs and made you respect him or regret it

[@heavyhanded1782]

Mike Tackett well at that point he didn’t even need it... it would’ve just been a title that wasn’t even earned because they refused to allow him to earn it yet they want to be positively associated with him after taking a hot steamy shit on him.

[@dumbbo1]

NBC broadcast an excellent miniseries back around 1984 based on the 1896 games. It centered mainly around the US team but also included the Greek soldier who won the marathon and an Australian man studying in England who competed for the London Athletic Club after being denied entry into the (aborted) Pan-Britannic Games. Comedy included Americans not knowing what size and weight the discus and the shot would be, so they brought pictures of Greek vases featuring discus almost the size of a manhole cover and shot the size of a medicine ball to a blacksmith. After training with these, the athlete was able to whip the real ones as easily as a frisbee and a softball. 😆

[@kevinbeach3621]

Had that miniseries on VHS some 25 years ago or so. It was great. If it's even possible to find it again, I highly recommend it.

[@doctorx2105]

Is that the same series where the Americans also mistakenly believed that they were supposed to compete naked?

[@dumbbo1]

Doctor X Yep! 🤣

[@khaccanhle1930]

It sounds like the first Olympics was a really relaxed and fun event. Nothing like the commercial and political circus of today.

[@TheDreadedHope]

Information that I did not ask for but wanted nay needed. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to the channel. "Today I found out " is truly an appropriate name for this strange information.

[@QuantumRift]

That's already taken by Simon.

[@michaelpuckett6138]

When I read your comment I do it in Simons voice...lol

[@jacobmortimore]

I live next to William Brookes' house (the inventor of the modern Olympics) in Much Wenlock. Hence the Paralympic mascot Wenlock for the london Olympics

[@amalfi460]

I love how Simon rolls his eyes when mentioning the 3500 rounds of ammo, I shoot 350 to 400 rounds a day a the pistol club so only a 9 day supply of ammo

[@Thumbsupurbum]

Neil Amalfitano Cool, you must get all the ladies.

[@SunflowerSpotlight]

I really didn’t quite get the scale of usage until my parents started signing me up for classes and going to a range with me (I was moving out and they hated the idea of me, the petite baby of the family living alone), and that’s when I realized, “Oh, this has eight rounds... and that takes less than a minute to go through. Huh. We need... kind of a lot.” 😅 Because it DOES sound really excessive. But having 3500 of *anything* sounds excessive. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@cargo_vroom9729]

Well he's a Brit, in my experience their really snooty about the fact that they have less of a right to bear arms than even their medieval serf ancestors. Gilded cage and so forth.

[@heavyhanded1782]

DirtyBlastard you dumbass that’s not even being cocky... who the fuck goes through the trouble of going out to a range only to shoot a few dozen?

[@ethansloan]

Question: Is there any validity to wine snobs who claim to be able to determine where the grapes were grown purely by taste, and if so, can it be done with any other fruits/vegetables?

[@TodayIFoundOut]

We have a video answering this coming up next week :-) -Daven

[@ethansloan]

@@TodayIFoundOut That's the quickest reply I've ever seen on a youtube comment. Thanks, Daven. Looking forward to the vid.

[@joecary3586]

Prior to 1976, people believed French wine was best. There was a blind taste test and California wines beat the French. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)

[@piarateking8094]

well apparently you can add red dye to white wine and people will claim it tastes like red wine

[@Battledongus]

@@joecary3586 TIFO did a video on exactly that too.

[@tabcat]

" . . . a third-rate capital . . . where he will be devoured by fleas." That's hilarious. It must be one of the best mean things ever written.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Never thought the creation of the modern Olympics would be this complicated.

[@who-man7699]

Man I love watching videos like this of the people it was about were true Gentleman all of them especially the Harvard fellow that told Harvard to kindly kiss his butt

[@m0j0e97]

Could you speak more about when we used to watch people walk for sport? I’ve never heard of anything like that and it sounds pretty interesting.

[@purplegill10]

"pedestrianism" is the sport if youre intersted

[@anotherunnecessarychannel]

They already made a video about it! 😁

[@VonOzbourne]

aka. The event that is to running, the equivalent to holding a loudest whisperer contest.

[@aaronburratwood.6957]

That’s most of what professional golf is.

[@fastinradfordable]

@@aaronburratwood.6957 no, they usually have golf carts and caddys

[@maryfreeman3341]

You didn't mention Penny Brooks. So I looked him up in Wikipedia, "The Wenlock Olympian Games, dating from 1850, are a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games. They are organised by the Wenlock Olympian Society, and are held each year at venues across Shropshire, England, centred on the little market town of Much Wenlock. Wikipedia Founded by: William Penny Brookes Location(s): Shropshire, England

[@Kenxclout]

I was arrested for my plot to steal all the precious metals from the Olympics. I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those medalling kids.

[@bronwynecg]

Ken Fulton {Baby Elder} ahahahaha 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😊

[@piratealeks6865]

Ok that was pretty good...

[@christelheadington1136]

I knew a fella that was so proud to have won a gold medal. he had it bronzed.

[@rexsexson5349]

Wah wah

[@calichef1962]

Did you know that the photo you used when talking about the shot put was actually a guy with a discus? I am quite familiar with both the shot and the discus because a girl in my high school graduating class, Leslie Deniz, competed in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and won the silver medal in discus. She was selected for the 1980 Olympics as well, but the entire American team boycotted the Olympics that year as they were held in Russia. She told reporters that she wasn't really upset about not going to Russia, as she would have been afraid of the team being detained as spies, or some other trumped up charge. It was a reasonable fear in the Cold War era.

[@markleon411]

Why does this video focus so much on the US involvement? Other countries participated in the 1896 Olympic Games. Australia has the unique distinction of being the only country in the world to have competed in every Olympic Games, including games that were boycotted by other countries.

[@piarateking8094]

cause the world cleary revolves around america :P

[@dazaspc]

Flack Came from Victoria and managed a couple of golds in I think were 800 and 1500 meter races and teamed up with a pom for a tennis doubles bronze. He was the only Aussie competing there. Pre Federation so Australia was not really a thing, probably had to suffer the UK flag and GSTK. If I remember correctly he even competed in the marathon.

[@aaronburratwood.6957]

piarate king It’s because we have a reality star as our head of government. America = Ratings.

[@heavyhanded1782]

piarate king well it does

[@Yupppi]

Perhaps well documented and winning quite a big portion of it. Perhaps more interesting stories than the other participants had documented. Perhaps the easiest English documentation available for source.

[@devlinmorin7615]

Americans scarily good at guns, Americans not giving a crap unless they win, Americans being elitist with their wealth, Americans winning all the golds, Americans needing cardio, so nothing has apparently changed on that front for a couple centuries.

[@samanjj]

Didn’t Australians come from even further? Not sure why US participation makes it more international and the Aussie participation doesn’t even get a mention.

[@dazaspc]

Flack Came from Victoria and managed a couple of golds in I think were 800 and 1500 meter races and teamed up with a pom for a tennis doubles bronze. He was the only Aussie competing there.

[@6447912]

There was actually just one Australian competing in that event, Edwin Flack. It's stated that he arrived to Athens after "six-day rail and sea trip", which makes me wonder if he came from somewhere closer than Australia (considering the American team took 17 days sea and rail). But Flack's journey (and life) seems like an interesting topic to cover.

[@AlexanderRJaruk]

Also, America is a deliberately ecumenical country: we take in all the peoples of the world and as our national motto states, "E Pluribus Unum", 'from many, one'. All races, religions, classes, and creeds become one people here, thus by coming to the first games we, in effect, represented the entire world.

[@dazaspc]

@@AlexanderRJaruk LOL Not exactly its current behavior.

[@AlexanderRJaruk]

@@dazaspc "Those were happier times." ~ Gimli the Dwarf, before the gates of the fallen capital of the dwarven empire, Moria: The Fellowship of the Ring, By J.R.R. Tolkien.

[@christophermerlot3366]

Fun fact: from the first games until the 1940s, there was an art component to the Olympics with categories in architecture, music, sculpture, poetry and painting. The winners got medals just like the athletes though they did not count in national totals. A couple guys even won medals in both arts and athletics.

[@Kenxclout]

If pessimism was a Olympic sport I would still not win it.

[@JoseGranny]

Noice! 🤣

[@schusterlehrling]

Finished in style :-)

[@mifty9898]

I love how you present the information. It is entirely entertaining and educational. Thank you!

[@TheEd8u]

The 1936 Olympics with Jesse was very fascinating!

[@Norvik_-ug3ge]

Can you imagine any civilians crossing Europe with lots of revolvers and 3,500 rounds in today's world? Not likely.

[@regularfather4708]

3,500 rounds is perfectly normal for any sport shooter, where ammunition expenditures are quite large, and bulk purchasing helps alleviate the high costs associated with frequent practice and competition. Sadly, many folks, unfamiliar with sport shooting will not know this and assume 3,500 rounds to be excessive.

[@Norvik_-ug3ge]

@@regularfather4708 Oh I know that, I was thinking more of current gun laws and fears over terrorism in Europe. Guns used in the current Olympic Games are not just regular revolvers, they are deliberately styled not to resemble 'civilian' guns.

[@Kaddywompous]

9:17 A little more important was the fact that Fosbury, the inventor of the Fosbury flop, wasn’t born yet.

[@bbvestieofthemagbloodaltar7665]

I am a new subscriber, or at least I just started watching these videos, and they are truly one of the best videos on KZbin. I love this!?

[@OakKnobFarm]

Oh, you have SO MANY great old vids to watch ;)

[@bbvestieofthemagbloodaltar7665]

@@OakKnobFarm Ah yes, I can't wait to just binge, I truly do love it!

[@SunflowerSpotlight]

Yeah they have a wicked back-catalogue. They have one on the famous poem The Road Not Taken (hosted by Daven, who’s the writer and other half of the pair that run the channel!) and Why are Schoolbuses Yellow? Just two of my favorites, but they’ve been at this for years! They also have a few other channels to check out, Biographics is more longform, but in-depth and I love it! Enjoy the channels!

[@Yupppi]

The story of Paine sounds cool. Like those Sherlock Holmes characters actually living. Just popping up in the office unexpectedly, when assumed to be on the other side of the globe. No familiar chatting, just straight to "when does the train leave? Collect your packages, we're going" without real explanations or questions. Classic New York Times class featuring about the first modern olympics and their hosts.

[@converseleigh]

My husband's grandfather was Charles Blake. Family lore says that the reason he didn't finish the race was because the Greeks were giving out ouzo instead of water to the runners. Drunk or dehydrated isn't much of a choice for a long distance runner. He also medaled in the other race in which he ran. I was always told he got a silver medal and just assumed that meant second place.

[@michaeltobias3110]

Traveling across the pond with all those guns & with all that ammo with no issues?? My how the times have changed. Lol

[@bob_._.]

The brother that was in France had the guns.

[@khaccanhle1930]

In the USA in the sixties you could carry your guns right onto the plane, in your carry on.

[@yourchannel2567]

Hey, Mr. Simon. Have you ever done a video on when they decided when the year 0 was? When we have B.C. and A.D., when did they decide to start counting backwards and start over again? Love your channels. =D

[@sextuspompeius1266]

They decided the starting point based off the birth of Jesus I believe it was around the year 800 or something in that area

[@sirius4496]

@@sextuspompeius1266 "allegedly"

[@chriscovington11]

The idea was brought up around 525 AD but not accepted till around 800 AD. 1 AD was the year they thought Christ was born but now we know it’s closer to 7-4 BC.

[@sextuspompeius1266]

@@chriscovington11 well No point changing it now

[@chriscovington11]

Issac Arellano hell Jews and Muslims have their own dating system anyway. Islamic year 1 is around 650 AD and Hebrew year 1 is like 3800 BC. So we as a people just kinda picked a day we thought would work. Lol

[@TheHoagie13]

11:09 The guy who had his bike break down, he should've called upon Monty Python's *"Bicycle-Repair Man"!!*

[@antediluvianspy1708]

"We here at Harvard didn't realize hard work got you into Harvard. Please take this doctorate and associate yourself with us....please. We're sorry for denying you leave because of your socio-economic disability."

[@basstard4639]

Thank you Simon weisler for bringing knowledge to us. I was not aware shooting was a Olympic sports.

[@regularfather4708]

3,500 rounds is not a lot of ammunition for a competitive or sport shooter when training or competing. 500-1000 rounds expended per range outing is not at all uncommon for someone who is serious about building and maintaining skill with their arms. Also, good sportsmanship as demonstrated in the video, is very common in sport shooting circles.

[@RettMikhal]

Is that a number associated with modern semi automatic weapons? They would be using primitive bolt actions and revolvers.

[@regularfather4708]

@@RettMikhal that number is generally associated with all sport, and competitive shooters, who will expend large amounts of ammunition to hone their skills. Revolvers and bolt action rifles are no exception, though reloading times are slower. Additionally 22lr is super popular for competitive target shooting because it is a zippy, accurate, affordable round that can store 500 rounds in the space of a Coke can. They may well have been using that caliber, in which case their ammo stash would fit in a shoebox, allowing for easy transport as well as a lot of practice time. But to get back to your question, massive ammo use is not peculiar to semiautomatic arms, but is unique to breech loading, smokeless powder weapons. The fellows of old, using muzzleloading rifles, would have been keen to make every shot count and so would not have so much room to practice. Competitive target shooters of the breechloading era would handily out shoot the longhunters of old, in part because of the ready availability of ammo to waste on tin cans. Annie Oakley is one such example where modern rifles afforded her the ability to just shoot all day every day, until she was an expert's expert.

[@izzojoseph2]

Your dictation of the old quotes makes it sound so immediate and prescient, bringing these historical figures to life.

[@doylesinclair4499]

I thought this was going to be about the 1st Olympics in ancient greece

[@Nilguiri]

So did I. I'm halfway through and all he has talked about is America.

[@rollingthunder915]

Me too; that's the only reason I clicked on it. This was NOT the "first Olympics."

[@bearcubdaycare]

@@rollingthunder915 Not even the first modern Olympic Games, according to the video.

[@Curly4000]

I thought the same thing. That’s why I gave this a video a dislike

[@AlexanderRJaruk]

I hate to have to be the bearer of bad news, but no records of most of the original games survive AT ALL let alone the first one to ever be held, which, as with the modern era's first games discussed here was most likely sparsely attended and carried overwhelmingly by only a small number of people, even more so than in the games discussed in this video as the concept of 'sportsmanship' evolved directly from the participation of the ancient city-states of Greece in the original Olympics.

[@HelgeMoulding]

He may have turned down the honorary degree (in '49), but in '48 he accepted an honorary athletic sweater. :-) Still, a lovely way to give the old Crimson an emerald green middle finger.

[@isaaclangdon1145]

What is the history and definition of the Mexican stand off?

[@aaronburratwood.6957]

Isaac Langdon I’d like to see a video on that as well.

[@TommyTheCat83]

Anyone remember when the Olympics actually stood for something? I can't. Now back to our sponsor.

[@HercadosP]

The NYT's coverage sounds so incredibly american, I want to die

[@acetate909]

Ugh... .... have you ever read a Britsh or French tabloid rag? There is nothing exceptional or uniquely American about salacious journalism.

[@martinfoster9848]

Naming all of the American sports first despite the fact that in relative terms they are not that popular.

[@LaylaSpellwind]

The first video uploaded since I subscribed and clicked for notifications. Thanks!

[@joshuapennell8529]

This would make a super cool dramatasized miniseries.

[@GFSLombardo]

The "token Irishmen" admitted to Harvard and other elite universities at the time were called "gray men" by their WASP school mates. Not quite "colored" but certainly not really "white" men, due to their unfortunate ethnic and religious heritage. This terminology was applied even to old Joe Kennedy, Harvard graduate and the father of JFK. Oh yes, the few Jews admitted to these hallowed temples of learning were "gray men" , too. Just sayin'...

[@semaj_5022]

Wow the NYT was super disrespectful towards Athens. What did Greece ever do to America? A rag from a baby nation disrespecting one of the oldest cities in the world is pretty rich, if you ask me.

[@Marcus51090]

*It’s fun to stay at the YYYYYY M C A* !!!!

[@TimmyCherry]

People of the 1890s were awesome

[@lukyphill]

Making Olympic America great. Now a word from our American sponsors,...

[@rockclimbing3844]

Well there is some facts. With the way that the Olympics are devastating communities, is it possible that the Olympics will one day become history??.

[@odysseusrex5908]

Very interesting video. Some of it I knew, some I did not. The thing which most caught my eye was a small fact only indirectly related to the main topic. In the account of the Payne brothers, the one brother says that he did not know his brother was, "On this side of the pond." I always thought the use of the term "pond" to refer to the Atlantic Ocean had started with Winston Churchill during World War II. In 1984 an excellent mini series was done called *The First Olympics: Athens, 1896*, focusing on the American team. David Ogden Stiers plays Dr. Sloan, and Louis Jordan plays Baron de Coubertin. It is somewhat fictionalized. It shows the Americans being utterly ignorant of some of the events to be played and basing their training, not on consulting with experienced athletes, but on representations on ancient Greek pottery. This results in their being significantly over trained for events such as the discus throw. It is nonetheless, as I recall, quite excellent and I highly recommend watching it if you can find a copy.

[@tristanwolfe119]

What was the spectator sport that involved watching people walk in circles?

[@kamX-rz4uy]

NASSHOE

[@LaineyBug2020]

Could you do a video on the origin of the popular U!S!A! chant? I think it has something to do with the Olympics & hockey & the 80s...

[@Skipper.17]

What about the rest of the country's that competed .

[@ryandupuis5860]

Imagine being able to travel to another country with 3,500 rounds of ammo today

[@monumento.f.501]

Next clip: "Mr. Bean Live Performance at the London 2012 Olympic Games".

[@moonchild7222]

This was fascinating!!! Thank you!

[@michaelpuckett6138]

But when did they design & start using those colorful circles to represent the Olympics?

[@calebshort2169]

How is there not a video on the leisure walking.

[@seanbaugh3239]

*Today I Found out :* Loose lips sink ships and loose bowels cause "skidmarks" *"NUFF SAID"*

[@VAXHeadroom]

The 1984 made-for-TV miniseries "The First Olympics" starring David Ogden Stiers, David Caruso *sunglasses*, and Louis Jordan is a darn good (but not perfect) retelling of this story. www.imdb.com/title/tt0086713/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

[@QuantumRift]

Awesome. Of course the buoni con is my favorite...super pooper of beasts. Why was it a favorite? Because, flatulance is funny. It's true that all good stories need pirates, but a good buoni con will do when you can't have pirates...a 3 acre farting beast that poops all over hunters. Awesome.

[@ryandupuis5860]

I would've won silver in the 800m... I'm 15.

[@davidfortier6976]

Not if you had to wear the same shoes as they did.

[@xtusvincit5230]

"Watching people walk in circles for days on end" what the hell are you talking about?

[@davidgolden6068]

Who and how were world records determined before Guiness?

[@devlinmorin7615]

Also it kind of sounds like aside from the Brits winning Tennis, the first olympics was just 15 Americans vs 300 greeks. Like Sparta but in reverse.

[@duncandurand6834]

Simon, this is good job. But you should tell the neighbor to put the music down.

[@doncarlin9081]

Oh, I thought this was going to be about the REAL first Olympic games...

[@Commodus43]

Everyone who are upset that Americans got more coverage in this need to realize the majority of his audience are American. I'm sure if your country was focused in it's place you wouldn't be as angry. Cater to your audience and keep them watching which brings in more $ for future content.

[@taitheguy85]

🤔 The calenders were off by 12 days. But the 17 day trip took 12 calender days? Why not 5 days??

[@ExMachinaEngineering]

I like how when making videos for Japan or France you apologize in advance for the terrible pronunciation, but when saying Greek names you just go about it like you're the gold medalist of saying Greek names... (see what I did there?). Anyway, don't worry about it. It's funny hearing it anyway. And we appreciate the effort, so go for it! But I did think Θρασύβουλος Μάνος was maybe an African Prince..?

[@normanbrown7147]

You guys should do a video about Milo of Croton

[@KneeDeepInTheDead81]

Whistley boi!

[@hulkingowl]

This isn't the first Olympic games though

[@Amy-zb6ph]

That's amazing! I wish people would remember what sportsmanship is supposed to be because it would help us relate with our fellow humans in general in a way that prevents us from fighting with one another. I have always thought that it would be a good idea, instead of going to war and having the poor young people of the involved countries shoot at each other, we should hold athletic competitions and each country ought to be able to propose an equal number of games so that it wouldn't be so biased toward richer nations. For example, there are some ancient games in every part of the world so a country would be able to make one of the indigenous sports of their home country part of the games so that even if that country wants to dispute with the US, where we pay some male athletes as if they were gods, they would have at least one way to level the play field. Then, of course, wars always actually end with diplomacy so, while the games are going on, the diplomats should be settling things peacefully. The games should be put on pay-per-view or there should be some other method to generate revenue. Then, whoever wins the overall games should get the money raised. I think we'd see a lot of games but we'd see so many fewer deaths in war and I doubt there'd be an civilian casualties. I don't know why we can't settle stuff this way and, if it's going to be a fight to the death, we should at least send the country's leader to fight with the other country's leader instead of sending poor kids who really have no beef with one another on either side.

[@Pants69]

Great video as always!

[@giorgio2g]

Ironically Greece went bankrupt a few years after the games of 1896. So history indeed repeats at some point.

[@strangulator42]

With the world today being so full of xenophobia and racism, it's especially uplifting to hear about globalism happening all the way back in the late 19th century! I always enjoy your videos, but this one was singularly inspiring!

[@fatmn]

6:22 is that Gus Johnson?

[@dennisvdk6079]

what do you mean they can't be called amateurs? All that it means is ''lover of''. how can you prove they dont love the sport lol xD

[@zinho9169]

Nah it means you don't make a living from doing it. I guess that would obviously mean you have a passion for it though.

[@18matts]

Do you play an orchestra whole you record these videos?

[@alexandergilles8583]

0:40 *_Kevin Durant wants to know your location_*

[@megk3392]

I'd love to hear more interesting facts about the Olympics!

[@Macid_11]

This entire video was ruined for me when there was no mention of Robert Dover who revived the games on 1612 in the Cotswolds England.

[@zombiepiccolo2251]

"baseball one of the most popular sports in the world" 😂 you mean in America where the changed the racket to a bat of rounders and pretended they invented it lol

[@hulkingowl]

It's also extremely popular in Japan to be fair

[@MandyJMaddison]

It's just not cricket!

[@emigrator08]

Baseball is extremely popular in North and South America, Asia, and the Caribbean. There is even a World Baseball Classic pitting nations against each other and it's gaining in popularity.

[@bmac4]

Me before this video: Meh, the first olympics werent too great and the US didnt seem to care much. May as well check it out. Me after this video: USA! 🇺🇸 USA! 🇺🇸 USA! 🇺🇸

[@ImNotACatLawyerButIPlayOneOnTV]

I'm so early there isn't even a comment about ads yet.

[@WormholeJim]

Incredible anyone actually managed to win anything with all that gentleman-like sportmanship.

[@F1RacingFans]

Britt calling football soccer, sad day sad day

[@robaerto71]

4:50 Shame! Even you; Simon, confuse the "Olympic Games" with the "Olympiad"! :/ The Olympiad is the time BETWEEN the games, NOT the games themselves!

[@AlexGarcia-lo9hx]

Do one on Formula 1!

[@jameskenny8821]

This isn't moon related... For shame!

[@trowhammerdespoilerofgalax2423]

How do any videos on this channel get downvoted?

[@bulletproofkam7931]

Baseballs a great British game just like all the rest.

[@ljn1879]

Did Simon need to get his moneys worth on the name logo neon

[@markschwarz2137]

An interesting video as almost always, but shouldn't the title be "A Surprisingly American Fascinating First Trip to "The Games""?

[@tiki_trash]

300,000 rounds of ammunition?

[@rickc2102]

3,500

[@v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096]

Fact check please

[@ronniebeal4922]

Why is Extra Virgin Olive Oil called, Extra Virgin Olive Oli?

[@davidroddini1512]

Ronnie Beal because of when the olives are picked. At one point in time olives were only picked by virgins. Because they ripped quickly, they had to use extra virgins to get them all picked before it reached a certain ripeness. Otherwise it was just virgin olive oil. Seriously though, extra virgin comes from the first pressing using only mechanical means. Virgin means more than a single pressing was used but still only mechanical means. Regular non-virgin oil then processes the remaining paste left over from virgin pressing with chemicals to extract the remaining oil. This is believed by some to “adulterate” the oil so it is no longer virgin. The “extra” designation on extra virgin means that not only is it unadulterated with chemicals but it also as not undergone a second pressing so it is even “more virgin” than virgin oil.

[@ronniebeal4922]

David Roddini thanks Man, Really Interesting to hear from you 👍🏻

[@auro1986]

when will chess become an olympic sport?

[@chemicalsmile1039]

I've always wondered, can you go into the top of the Whitehouse? The part on top of the square part that is very breast-like.