Sport's greatest moments, scandals, and underdogs — one per day, told in six minutes by Dane. History, not hot takes.
Episodes are produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review. A Talking Labs production.
Roger Bannister ran 3:59.4 at Oxford's Iffley Road on 6 May 1954. This episode follows Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway's pacing, the last lap and the announcement drowned out after the word 'three'.
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19 Sept 2026
The Fosbury Flop Changes High Jump
Dick Fosbury arrived at the 1968 Olympics with a high-jump style that looked wrong to almost everyone. Then he changed the event forever.
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19 Sept 2026
Secretariat's 31-Length Belmont
The 1973 Belmont Stakes, reconstructed from the gate to the finish: Secretariat's impossible pace, 31-length margin, and record that still stands.
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19 Sept 2026
Secretariat's thirty-one lengths
Belmont Park, 9 June 1973: Secretariat breaks with the field, takes the lead and keeps widening it. Reconstruct the split times, Chic Anderson's call, the twenty-five-length lead and the official thirty-one-length margin that completed the Triple Crown.
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16 Sept 2026
The 1966 World Cup's Russian Linesman
Geoff Hurst's shot hit the bar, bounced near the line and changed a World Cup final. Reconstruct what referee Gottfried Dienst and Azerbaijani linesman Tofiq Bahramov saw—and what later geometry found.
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15 Sept 2026
Billie Jean King versus Bobby Riggs: The Point Bigger Than the Match
How Billie Jean King prepared for the Battle of the Sexes, read the match and turned a sporting spectacle into a cultural test.
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15 Sept 2026
The Rumble in the Jungle: How Rope-a-Dope Worked
Muhammad Ali entered the Rumble in the Jungle as the challenger and left as heavyweight champion. This episode follows George Foreman's pressure, Ali's work on the ropes and the eighth-round finish behind the phrase rope-a-dope.
This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
13 Sept 2026
Jesse Owens in Berlin: Four Golds Under the Swastika
Berlin staged the 1936 Olympics as propaganda. Jesse Owens answered with four gold medals. This episode follows the races, the long jump, the disputed Luz Long legend, the relay controversy, and the truth behind the supposed Hitler handshake snub.
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13 Sept 2026
The Miracle on Ice, 1980
22 February 1980, Lake Placid: a team of American college players beat the Soviet Union 4-3, the side that had won four straight Olympic golds and had thrashed them in an exhibition at Madison Square Garden days earlier. Mark Johnson's goal with one second left in the first period, Viktor Tikhonov pulling Vladislav Tretiak, Mike Eruzione's winner, Jim Craig in goal, and the ten minutes that followed. ABC ran it on tape delay, so most of America already knew. Two days later they still had to beat Finland for the gold. Olympic hockey, Cold War sport, 1980 Winter Olympics.
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12 Sept 2026
The Black Sox in six minutes
Eight Chicago players were acquitted by a jury of throwing the 1919 World Series. The next day, baseball banned all eight of them for life anyway. How you fix a World Series without anybody seeing it — you do not throw it, you are only slightly worse than you are. The first batter taking a pitch in the body as a signal to the gamblers. The betting money that moved in volumes that made no sense. The signed confessions that vanished out of the courthouse before the trial. And the sport's first commissioner, handed powers nobody had thought to limit, deciding that a jury's verdict had no bearing on whether a man belonged in the game.
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12 Sept 2026
Eddie the Eagle flies last and wins everything
Michael Edwards was a plasterer from Cheltenham who became Britain's first Olympic ski jumper largely by being the only man in the country who volunteered. At Calgary in 1988 he finished last in both events — in borrowed boots stuffed with socks, a helmet tied on with string, and spectacles that fogged under his goggles so badly he left most ramps unable to see the landing. Every jump he landed upright. At the closing ceremony the president of the organising committee named one athlete from the podium, and it was the one who had come last. The qualifying rule written afterwards is still informally named after him.
This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
11 Sept 2026
The Hand of God, 1986
On 22 June 1986 at the Estadio Azteca, Diego Maradona scored the two most famous goals in World Cup history four minutes apart in the same quarter-final against England. The first he punched in past Peter Shilton while referee Ali Bin Nasser was unsighted and the linesman had already turned for the halfway line - no video review existed. The second, voted the Goal of the Century, ran from inside his own half through the England defence in eleven touches. This episode covers the Falklands War backdrop, what the officials actually saw, Maradona's 'a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God' line, and his later admission.
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