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Sport, in general, is very aggregating and provides people with some of the most beautiful moments seen by humanity. The overcoming and the life lessons that some athletes present in their stories become incredible examples.
Whether it is the Olympics, the World Cup, the NFL's Super Bowl, Formula 1 or any other sport and major event, these are moments that we all love to review and remember. And another thing to remember is that you can get the best limits and odds if you create an account at the best betting software!
Now, with no further ado, to the list:
If you've ever wondered how boxing could be connected to a pyrotechnic show, well, history can help you answer that. That's because in London, in the year 1937, two boxers had a metal structure with fireworks strapped to their bodies to be fired during their fight.
So that the audience could also be enchanted by the lights, the fight was held at night, in the dark, making the athletes' situation even more difficult. Anyway, both were also equipped with fireproof clothing, which gave them a little more security, despite the danger of the situation.
6. The football player who despised Hitler
Austria's national team qualified for the 1938 World Cup when the country had already been taken over by the Nazis. One last match of the team was played in April of that year against Germany, and then the players were incorporated into the German team itself. This match was supposed to be a celebration of the Austrians rejoining their home nation.
However, in that team there was a renowned football player who had been captain during the 34th World Cup: Matthias Sindelar. And it was he who defied the Nazis, for he saw in this match a great opportunity to express his feelings and his dissatisfaction with the situation his country was going through. His first move was to convince the team to wear red and white uniforms, which represented the Austrian nation, instead of the traditional German black and white.
At the match, Sindelar scored the first goal and celebrated in front of a VIP box containing members of the upper echelons of Nazi officials. In the end, Austria won 2-0. However, rumours throughout history say that that team had been ordered to lose the match or play for a draw. Witnesses who attended the match even reported that the Austrian players even missed some goals, apparently on purpose, and only then started playing with their hearts.
After the event, Sindelar claimed that he was already old and injured, so he would retire and refused to wear the German shirt. He eventually died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning less than a year after the event. Many people have come to question whether it was really an accident.
Kirkwall is the capital of the Orkney Islands archipelago, located in the north of Scotland. Every year at Christmas and New Year, the city is divided into two parts, the Uppies and the Doonies, abbreviations for Up-the-gates and Doon-the-Gates. These two groups represent the teams that play the biggest and most traditional version of the game "Ba".
Ba is a derivation of medieval football played on the streets in many cities around the world, but it is estimated that in Kirkwall the tradition goes back more than 300 years. The current version of the game has been played in this way since the mid-19th century and the aim is to get the ball into the goal, which is located in Kirkwall bay for the Doonies and in the old city gates for the Uppies. The two points are separated by several streets and courts, miles apart, but thousands of competitors take part in the event. The video above gives a good idea of how the game is played.
If the dispute itself already seems a little bizarre, the legend of the creation of this game is a little more so. According to the spread of history, the Ba of Kirkwall came about as a commemoration of the death of a terrible Viking tyrant called Tusker. Known for his long, protruding teeth, the evil Tusker was defeated and killed by an unknown young warrior.
The boy was injured by the Viking's teeth before beheading him, which caused a fatal infection. However, in his last breath, the warrior, already in the city of Kirkwall, threw Tusker's head to the crowded people. Saddened by the death of their young hero and happy for the downfall of the bandit, the citizens began to kick the head from one side to the other, and thus began the practice of the Ba of Kirkwall.
Charles Blondin arrived in the United States in 1855 and became rich and famous for crossing Niagara Falls on a taut rope. The tightrope walker planned his goal as soon as he arrived on the American continent and, understanding well the human fascination with morbid people, used this to his advantage.
He even encouraged others to bet on his own death, and so some 25,000 people came to watch his feat. On 30 June 1859, Blondin became the first person to cross the Niagara Gorge on a taut rope. He went against most expectations and not only made it across the falls, he stopped halfway down the rope and sat down to drink a bottle of wine.
Before returning to the American side of the river, the man rested for 20 minutes and on his way back he even took a camera which he used to take a picture in the middle of the way. The tightrope walker repeated the feat a few times after the first, and each time he used something different to attract the public's attention. In one of them, for example, Blondin crossed on his back. In another, he did it blindfolded.
The 1904 Olympic Games were bizarre in general, starting with the fight over the venue. Initially scheduled for Chicago, the event was held in St. Louis, Louisiana. The change occurred because the city was also hosting the Universal Exposition that year. Thus, its representatives blackmailed the organization of the games claiming they would hold their own sporting event if the Olympics would not take place there.
Another curiosity of this edition of the greatest event in world sport is that among the American athletes, who made up the majority of the participants, was gymnast George Eyser, who won six medals in the competition. The important detail is that one of his legs was mechanical, made of wood. There are also other peculiar facts that occurred in the event, however, the big fuss was caused by the marathon.
The official winner was Thomas Hicks, even though he had consumed strychnine, a poison that acts as a stimulant if administered in small doses. However, before him, there was another winner, runner Fred Lorz, who ended up disqualified. The reason? Lorz did 18 of the 42 km of the race aboard a car.
As if that wasn't enough, the marathon's fourth-place finisher, Andarin Carvajal, also had a crazy story. Officially a postman, he ran the race in his street clothes and at one point in the marathon decided to stop in an orchard, where he accidentally ate some rotten apples and had to nap for a few minutes to recover. Even so, Carvajal almost reached the podium.
Finally, there is the case of African Len Tau, who was the first black man from the continent to compete in the history of the games. He was chased by wild dogs and had to run a little faster over the 2km course. The unexpected effort earned him ninth place in the final classification.
What was supposed to be another case of doping in the history of sport became a ridiculous and absurd episode in English football in 1939. The pivot of the story was Wolverhampton Wanderers, from the city of the same name, which has a long and traditional history in the game. The club was one of the founders of the country's premier football league and also helped to establish the so-called 'European Cup', the forerunner of today's UEFA Champions League.
Wolverhampton's proud history of influence in the sport has the taint of having pioneered the use of a technique, later deemed doping, from monkeys' testicles. At the time, the team was managed by Frank Buckley, and it was he who heard of the "revolutionary method" developed by surgeon Serge Voronoff. The procedure, which was actually quite popular in the 1920s and 30s, consisted of applying tissue from the animals' scrotum to the human testicles as a rejuvenation method.
Buckley announced to the press and the other clubs that the use of this technique was not doping and therefore there was no ban. So he subjected the team to the treatment and apparently his athletes showed improvement in endurance and strength. However, all the changes happened as the so-called placebo effect. We have already covered this subject here at Mega Curioso in the articles you can read by clicking here and here.
Other clubs even adopted the technique used on Wolverhampton players, even knowing the origin of the effect. However, some clubs vehemently protested causing the British authorities to discuss in Parliament the permission for the use of monkey testicles in athletes. The decision was not favourable to the treatment and surgeon Voronoff's beliefs ended up ridiculed.
We hope you enjoyed this little foray in the weird world of football, and bettingsoftware.com will be back soon with more great content for you!
Whether it is the Olympics, the World Cup, the NFL's Super Bowl, Formula 1 or any other sport and major event, these are moments that we all love to review and remember. And another thing to remember is that you can get the best limits and odds if you create an account at the best betting software!
Now, with no further ado, to the list:
7. Fireworks Boxing
If you've ever wondered how boxing could be connected to a pyrotechnic show, well, history can help you answer that. That's because in London, in the year 1937, two boxers had a metal structure with fireworks strapped to their bodies to be fired during their fight.
So that the audience could also be enchanted by the lights, the fight was held at night, in the dark, making the athletes' situation even more difficult. Anyway, both were also equipped with fireproof clothing, which gave them a little more security, despite the danger of the situation.
6. The football player who despised Hitler
Austria's national team qualified for the 1938 World Cup when the country had already been taken over by the Nazis. One last match of the team was played in April of that year against Germany, and then the players were incorporated into the German team itself. This match was supposed to be a celebration of the Austrians rejoining their home nation.
However, in that team there was a renowned football player who had been captain during the 34th World Cup: Matthias Sindelar. And it was he who defied the Nazis, for he saw in this match a great opportunity to express his feelings and his dissatisfaction with the situation his country was going through. His first move was to convince the team to wear red and white uniforms, which represented the Austrian nation, instead of the traditional German black and white.
At the match, Sindelar scored the first goal and celebrated in front of a VIP box containing members of the upper echelons of Nazi officials. In the end, Austria won 2-0. However, rumours throughout history say that that team had been ordered to lose the match or play for a draw. Witnesses who attended the match even reported that the Austrian players even missed some goals, apparently on purpose, and only then started playing with their hearts.
After the event, Sindelar claimed that he was already old and injured, so he would retire and refused to wear the German shirt. He eventually died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning less than a year after the event. Many people have come to question whether it was really an accident.
5. Kirkwall Ba Game
Kirkwall is the capital of the Orkney Islands archipelago, located in the north of Scotland. Every year at Christmas and New Year, the city is divided into two parts, the Uppies and the Doonies, abbreviations for Up-the-gates and Doon-the-Gates. These two groups represent the teams that play the biggest and most traditional version of the game "Ba".
Ba is a derivation of medieval football played on the streets in many cities around the world, but it is estimated that in Kirkwall the tradition goes back more than 300 years. The current version of the game has been played in this way since the mid-19th century and the aim is to get the ball into the goal, which is located in Kirkwall bay for the Doonies and in the old city gates for the Uppies. The two points are separated by several streets and courts, miles apart, but thousands of competitors take part in the event. The video above gives a good idea of how the game is played.
If the dispute itself already seems a little bizarre, the legend of the creation of this game is a little more so. According to the spread of history, the Ba of Kirkwall came about as a commemoration of the death of a terrible Viking tyrant called Tusker. Known for his long, protruding teeth, the evil Tusker was defeated and killed by an unknown young warrior.
The boy was injured by the Viking's teeth before beheading him, which caused a fatal infection. However, in his last breath, the warrior, already in the city of Kirkwall, threw Tusker's head to the crowded people. Saddened by the death of their young hero and happy for the downfall of the bandit, the citizens began to kick the head from one side to the other, and thus began the practice of the Ba of Kirkwall.
4. Charles Blondin crossing Niagara Falls
Charles Blondin arrived in the United States in 1855 and became rich and famous for crossing Niagara Falls on a taut rope. The tightrope walker planned his goal as soon as he arrived on the American continent and, understanding well the human fascination with morbid people, used this to his advantage.
He even encouraged others to bet on his own death, and so some 25,000 people came to watch his feat. On 30 June 1859, Blondin became the first person to cross the Niagara Gorge on a taut rope. He went against most expectations and not only made it across the falls, he stopped halfway down the rope and sat down to drink a bottle of wine.
Before returning to the American side of the river, the man rested for 20 minutes and on his way back he even took a camera which he used to take a picture in the middle of the way. The tightrope walker repeated the feat a few times after the first, and each time he used something different to attract the public's attention. In one of them, for example, Blondin crossed on his back. In another, he did it blindfolded.
3. The 1904 Olympic marathon
The 1904 Olympic Games were bizarre in general, starting with the fight over the venue. Initially scheduled for Chicago, the event was held in St. Louis, Louisiana. The change occurred because the city was also hosting the Universal Exposition that year. Thus, its representatives blackmailed the organization of the games claiming they would hold their own sporting event if the Olympics would not take place there.
Another curiosity of this edition of the greatest event in world sport is that among the American athletes, who made up the majority of the participants, was gymnast George Eyser, who won six medals in the competition. The important detail is that one of his legs was mechanical, made of wood. There are also other peculiar facts that occurred in the event, however, the big fuss was caused by the marathon.
The official winner was Thomas Hicks, even though he had consumed strychnine, a poison that acts as a stimulant if administered in small doses. However, before him, there was another winner, runner Fred Lorz, who ended up disqualified. The reason? Lorz did 18 of the 42 km of the race aboard a car.
As if that wasn't enough, the marathon's fourth-place finisher, Andarin Carvajal, also had a crazy story. Officially a postman, he ran the race in his street clothes and at one point in the marathon decided to stop in an orchard, where he accidentally ate some rotten apples and had to nap for a few minutes to recover. Even so, Carvajal almost reached the podium.
Finally, there is the case of African Len Tau, who was the first black man from the continent to compete in the history of the games. He was chased by wild dogs and had to run a little faster over the 2km course. The unexpected effort earned him ninth place in the final classification.
1. The doping scandal involving monkeys' testicles
What was supposed to be another case of doping in the history of sport became a ridiculous and absurd episode in English football in 1939. The pivot of the story was Wolverhampton Wanderers, from the city of the same name, which has a long and traditional history in the game. The club was one of the founders of the country's premier football league and also helped to establish the so-called 'European Cup', the forerunner of today's UEFA Champions League.
Wolverhampton's proud history of influence in the sport has the taint of having pioneered the use of a technique, later deemed doping, from monkeys' testicles. At the time, the team was managed by Frank Buckley, and it was he who heard of the "revolutionary method" developed by surgeon Serge Voronoff. The procedure, which was actually quite popular in the 1920s and 30s, consisted of applying tissue from the animals' scrotum to the human testicles as a rejuvenation method.
Buckley announced to the press and the other clubs that the use of this technique was not doping and therefore there was no ban. So he subjected the team to the treatment and apparently his athletes showed improvement in endurance and strength. However, all the changes happened as the so-called placebo effect. We have already covered this subject here at Mega Curioso in the articles you can read by clicking here and here.
Other clubs even adopted the technique used on Wolverhampton players, even knowing the origin of the effect. However, some clubs vehemently protested causing the British authorities to discuss in Parliament the permission for the use of monkey testicles in athletes. The decision was not favourable to the treatment and surgeon Voronoff's beliefs ended up ridiculed.
We hope you enjoyed this little foray in the weird world of football, and bettingsoftware.com will be back soon with more great content for you!
