Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anna Chazinski and Miller and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting this week with my fact, my fact is that the Olympics used to have a race just for old ladies,
exclusively for old ladies, called the Old Ladies Race, or Old Women Racing.
They didn't put much thought into the name, did they?
It wasn't, yeah.
The Roan Seal approach.
There was a fuller name, actually, where it said Old Ladies Racing for a pound of tea.
That sounds much better, I'd watch that one.
Well, no, it turns out, you might as well be saying men doing the 100-metre sprint for a gold medal,
because the pound of tea was the prize, it wasn't.
Because it wasn't like re-horn racing where it's on a screen, but they did get it, right?
They got the pound of tea.
Yeah, we should quickly say that this is not what we all perceive as the kind of the modern Olympics,
the Olympics that are going on in Rio right now.
What this is, is a much older version of the Olympics that started in a place called Much Wenlock,
and this was back in the 1800s.