This episode looks at that very first Olympics in Athens in 1896, how it came about and some of the bizarre events and people that took part. It is just weeks now until the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. This is the second of a 20 part short nugget series charting the strange and fascinating people, sports, cheats, boycotts, doping and so much more that have happened in the Olympic Games since 1896.  Each episode is stuffed full of the quirky and the crazy and in their no more than 15 minutes make your eyebrows raise, your head scratch and your lips smirk.