Sports jokes and funny stories – football, golf, cricket, cycling and the Olympics, including bloopers and crazy bets.
Seoul 1988 Olympic Games. Ben Johnson disqualified, Roy Jones cheated of the gold medal. One tradition is for the host country to introduce a game of their choice. In Korea, table tennis made its first appearance in the Olympic Games.
Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games. Emil Zátopek of Czechoslovakia won the 10,000 meters amd also won the 5,000 and the marathon.
Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games. Vladamir Kuts broke the world record at both 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
Rome 1960 Olympic Games. In 1960, crown prince, later King Constantine of Greece, won a gold medal in the Dragon class.
Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games. Al Oerter is one of our top 10 Olympic heroes. He won his third discus gold medal in the Tokyo games, and would go on to win a fourth in Mexico city.
Munich 1972 Olympic Games. The XX Olympiad has been for ever tainted by the massacre of Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists.
Montreal 1976 Olympic Games. Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who scored seven perfect 10s on her way to three gold medals
Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. A time spoilt by politics and boycotts. Daley Thompson won gold in the Decathlon. He would win again in 1984
Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games. This was Carl Lewis’s games, he equalled the record of the great Jesse Owens by winning gold medals in the same 4 events, 100m, 200m, Long Jump and the sprint relay
Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. In each games politics plays a part, but in the case of Barcelona it was good news, South Africa returned to the fold, and Germany sent a unified team.
Funny Super Bowl Jokes. The owner of a bar in Dallas Texas is holding a competition to find the ‘perfect woman’, the prize is a ticket for the Super Bowl. Here are the attributes….
Funny Welsh rugby jokes. Dai ‘Eighteen months’ – he only had an ear and a half. At Bedwas Cecil would for ever be known as a futility player’.
London 1908 Olympic games. This was the IV Olympiad and the 1st time the games was held in London. The next would be in 1948.
Funny baseball jokes and amusing pictures. One official made so many bad calls, he was nicknamed, ‘The Dumpire.’