Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray,
James Harkin and Anna Tyshinski and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our 4 favourite facts from the last 7 days and in a particular order,
here we go.
Starting with fact number 1, that is James.
Okay, my fact this week is that in the 1920 Winter Olympics,
US skater Teresa Weld was the only woman in the figure skating who performed jumps.
But she was marked down every time she did because her skirt rose above her knees, which was considered too scandalous.
Did she have pants on?
You can't tell if it's got rises above the knees.
Depends how long the pants are.
Yeah, possibly they could be like bloomers.
Yeah, they did wear pants down to the knees back then.
So it sounds very sexy James and clearly it was at the time.
Yeah, it depends when about she wore it.
If she wore what she was wearing then, now in the Winter Olympics, like just to show behind the curtain,
we're actually recording this when the Winter Olympics is on and you're going to hear this in the spring.
Sounds like she was showing people behind the curtain of her dress.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.