When The Olympics had Art Competitions

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THG deserves a gold medal for artfully crafting this episode. 🎨

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[@JonesNate]

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[@douglassauvageau7262]

Every Olympic host location develops infrastructure which persists after the event. Imagine museums and concert-halls to stand in partnership with stadiums, etc.

[@ElicBehexan]

When the Olympics were held in Canada, I think in 1976, one of the Canadian artists was a potter named Mary Borgstrom. Four years ago, Alexander Archibald (Alex Archibald) bought her hoarded house, fixed it up. He found, at that time, many of the pots she still had. Pots that should've been in museums. He documented the event on his channel Curiosity Inc.

[@Nickifoster-hl3ux]

It was quite interesting.

[@elgatofelix8917]

Amazing. This gives me a whole new appreciation for the history of the Olympics. Thanks History Guy! 👍😃

[@allenharoldsen9040]

I was on the 1988 Olympic Snow Sculpture team from the United State in Calgary, Alberta after winning the national championship in Milwaukee that year. We placed in the top ten. Finland won gold, with Austria taking silver and Finland taking bronze. I believe that was the first time it was an Olympic event and that it was held either once or twice more.

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[@multipletanksyndrome]

It would be cool to have a battle of the bands along with the Olympics.

[@DeconvertedMan]

yeah! having dif music play would be really cool.

[@lakrids-pibe]

I imagine the eurovision song contest, but global and every fourth year.

[@lakrids-pibe]

Imagine how awesome it would be with an olympic eurovision song grand prix every fourth year! Giving points to music is obviously silly, but it's great fun.

[@JonesNate]

I'd like to see an art competition or exhibition added, if they don't currently have anything.

[@DeconvertedMan]

same!

[@evensgrey]

The science fiction novel "Achilles' Choice" is centered on a version of the Olympics which involves artistic events. It also has athletes participate in multiple events, which the specialization required for elite performance makes extremely difficult in reality. (The novel allows this by having an augmentation process called "The Boost" available to all participants, although it only allows them two chances at victory and the further augmentation that will prevent the invariably fatal side outcome known as "The Burn," which causes rapid degeneration eight years after taking "The Boost.")

[@glstka5710]

13:57 What's the kitty's name? I love kitty-cats!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Pocky. He loves attention.

[@copter2000]

Then we shall give her one.

[@danielbeck9191]

In a way, the architecture for the athletic venues is an artistic competition. Some of the buildings have been wonderful, and have gone on to have long and useful lives. For example, the Waldbuhn and the Olympiastadion in Berlin have been updated, but were built by the Third Reich for the Berlin Olympiad

[@theoneandonlysoslappy]

It's rumored they're reviving the art competition. I can't wait to see if a banana taped to the wall will finally beat a pickled shark! 😍

[@staringcorgi6475]

It wouldn’t make any sense because art is inherently professional

[@alkberg2140]

I had no idea this was part of the Olympics movement. Thanks!

[@ERH1453]

I'm going to have as n Olympic movement.

[@shantanusapru]

Very thorough & very interesting!!

[@mydiscworld]

Jack Butler Yeats, brother of Nobel Prize winner W.B. Yeats, won silver in Paris in 1924 for Painting

[@MrLesonfireforGod]

I remember the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. There were several notable sculptures I found very interesting. One was a group of black metal poles maybe 20 feet tall. It was downtown. They were straight with a gold band at 6ft. Another was at the campus of the University of Calgary. It featured statues of 6 life sized athletes, three on each side, bending a flat piece of metal into an arch one could walk under. I heard the IOC liked that one so much, they had a replica sent to their headquarters in Switzerland. PS My tuxedo cat is named Oreo, what's your cat's name?

[@bigsarge2085]

Always interesting!

[@BasicDrumming]

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[@--Paws--]

Imagine the Grammy Awards or the Academy Awards also followed a 4 year event for award ceremony.

[@nathangreer8219]

11:08 Mahonri Young. Grandson of Brigham Young and a legend today in the LDS (Mormon) community.

[@navret1707]

Art Composition: replacing a sports competition that is based on measurable results - speed, height, time, distance, etc, with a category that is purely subjective . There are numerous examples of “art” that is highly subjective (banana on canvas, sculpture of hugging if memory serves which looked like something entirely different).

[@davemoore1233]

Lots of sports competitions have judges instead of referees.

[@dmcgee3]

Have you watched gymnastics, diving, figure skating, etc?

[@SmetadAnarkist]

I believe that the 1912 Stockholm Olympics was the last time the gold medals where actually made out of gold.

[@aigner2568]

This is so interesting. Would love to see some changes to reinstate the competitions in the future.

[@hwizell7478]

Mental gymnastics Feats of endurance and strength Tripod solid #haiku #olympicgames #medal

[@J.A.Smith2397]

One of your most fascinating and something i've never heard of at least bit!!!!

[@jameswolf133]

Trivia time: Monaco, the country that has participated in the most games without an athletic medal has an artistic medal. Lauro De Bosis, the only medalist for dramatic works, won for his play ‘Icarus.’ Ironically he and his plane disappeared over the Tyrrhenian Sea in 1931 after he dropped anti-fascist literature over Rome. Éva Földes, a winner in 1948 survived incarceration in Nazi concentration camps.

[@kingsleymarkk]

This is quite eye-opening. I never thought about fusing the arts as a sport.

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[@foxyfoxington2651]

There's something funny to me about the idea that Cities Skylines or Sim City could have been considered an Olympic level competition, had history gone differently.

[@anti-Russia-sigma]

We need more contests for town planners,pls.

[@gregoryborlan747]

I can see Squidward signing up for this competition.😁

[@elgatofelix8917]

Last time I was this early, it was still "only two weeks to flatten muh curve"

[@markn2904]

When and how did the winter Olympics begin?

[@kutter_ttl6786]

Jan 25, 1924 - Feb 5, 1924, in Chamonix, France. As to the how, in 1921 at the IOC convention there was a call for equality in winter sports so it was decided to hold an "International Winter Sports Week". It proved to be successful so they decided to continue the event as the winter olympics.

[@markn2904]

@@kutter_ttl6786 Thank you so much for your explanation.

[@karentrimmer]

The 1994 Winter Olympics, held in Lillehammer, Norway, were the first Winter Games to be held in a different year from the Summer Games.

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@@karentrimmer Thank you.

[@RickImus]

I knew about live pigeon shooting, but running deer hunting was new to me.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

It is target shooting- the target moves, but was not an actual running deer.

[@amadeusamwater]

Maybe they should have a competition for the Olympics commercials. Isn't that a form of art?

[@_Abjuranax_]

I would like them to bring back the standing high jump, lol.

[@nikolasao]

The history of plywood would be fascinating 😊

[@Pwnulolumad]

History of the screw exists and you might enjoy it

[@DeconvertedMan]

we should bring that back - it would be pretty cool. have the art thing be anonymous so that popularity of the person entering cant factor in judging... also *Historycat!* 🐱

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I had a friend who exhibited at the 1936 Olympics. He was a hockey fan and his painting was of a goal being scored in an NHL game. The players were recognisable both by number and out-of-perspective faces, He depicted the only Jewish player in the NHL at the time scoring the goal. The Nazis never did cotton on to his slur on their racial theories. He died about 30 years ago. He still had the painting which was sold at auction after his passing.

[@joshuanishanthchristian5217]

Fascinating!

[@rabbi120348]

Did the Cotswold Games involve Cotswold lions?

[@rickieoakes5267]

Since competitions are a spectators reason for attending the games, I would think that only artists work done during the games should be allowed.

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Good morning fellow student.

[@HM2SGT]

*Just imagine… Winning a gold medal in town planning!* 13:00

[@joshuabessire9169]

Hear me out. We revive the art competition with an objective criteria for winning. Silver if you can fool the birds, gold if you can fool the other artists.

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[@copter2000]

Italian will cease to exist

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[@clairerobsin]

This, is very timely :O)

[@DAdamTrammell]

The History Cat!

[@HM2SGT]

😻

[@ashergoney]

After Churning Out All The Gold and Then Stars Have To Offer. Like Ancient Time Also That Which Was Fools Gold..

[@Jezeppi1]

Nice Cat doc. 😅😊

[@williamromine5715]

How can the only medal awarded in a catagory be bronze or silver? It just doesn't make any sense. If only one exhibit is worthy of a medal, it should be gold, since it was the best exhibit.

[@HM2SGT]

13:23 *_It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game._* how quaint. 😏🙄😩 Nowadays in the 21st-century we know winning isn't _everything,_ it's the only thing! Victory at any price- the ends justify the means!*

[@beautifulsmall]

Faries on our sholders not knives in hands

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15th, 22 September 2023

[@ashergoney]

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[@jamesomalley4556]

Bruce would win them all Lol.

[@ashergoney]

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[@JTA1961]

Dearly De p ART ed...

[@paulashe61]

Where’s the poetry ?

[@paulashe61]

Stephen Fry did an Olympic program

[@williamwelsh5855]

Can't you do anything to calm that cat down?

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Lol yeah- he likes to be held

[@tobygoodguy4032]

Art is too subjective to judge. It was a bad idea and doesn't belong in the Olympic games. (There's enough political consternation these days to leave a bitter-sweet taste in most observers pallette.) 🤠

[@ashergoney]

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[@CallieMasters5000]

Pierre de Coubertin - koo-ber-tan, not kor-ber-tan kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKqlcmCZfaujr8k Also, Pierre has some baggage too. On women athletes, he said "an Olympiad with females would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper." He believed that only amateur athletes should be allowed, excluding anybody who received payment for their sport. By extension, he was also not in favor of working class laborers competing, as they were paid to perform these skills, rather than men who did sports as a hobby. His understanding of the original ancient games has been called into question too. The fact that the Games have continued to evolve over the years, as well as the criticisms written about him, show that he had his flaws.

[@robertgiles9124]

That tie is just not a good look. Sorry.

[@robertgiles9124]

I think I figured it our by myself as I wore one 60 years ago when I was a kid and it was still "in fashion". It's really ugly..@mydixiewrecked2

[@copter2000]

Or do you have bad taste?

[@robertgiles9124]

Sorry you are so confused. @@copter2000

[@robertgiles9124]

Yeah. ties are like dog leashes which is why woman love them. So outmoded. The Indians have much better clothes for men. Nehru jackets are cool @mydixiewrecked2

[@robertgiles9124]

Let's skip the Racist nonsense today.@mydixiewrecked2