Winter Olympics: Hitler’s mistress and hot tub orgies

29:41which is a good life hack always keep a sign photo of Hitler on your mantelpiece just in case so I don't know maybe again she was thinking tick your head maybe she saw the writer on the wall what you think she's like the Nazis will need to secure that northern border they'll need to secure the North Sea with Britain so they will invade Norway at which point my house will be looted so I should leave the picture she's sort of like Bezos and Zuckerberg coming out for Trump yeah she sees which way the wind is blowing. She's very cynical. Yeah. I like that. Well, well, good thinking. Actually, a lot of those figure skaters became Hollywood stars.

30:19Oh yeah. I think it was. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, there wasn't much else going on, was there? Yeah. Just the events of Mount Wank. Actually, if you are a Nazi Obergruppenführer who finds yourself in Fleckfjord rifling through the possessions of a Hollywood actress, you're going to want to get some pics for the lads back home. aren't you? Show them where you are. And then imagine how gutted you be if you had no data because your Nazi phone provider doesn't cover Norway. Reich's phone. Yeah. I was trying to think of Nazi phone networks and all I could think of was eugenics everywhere for EE. It's quite hard.

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32:18So yeah, download Saley in the app store. It's S-A-I-L-Y. And then use code Upshot and you'll get 15 % off. I've also linked to it in the description box. You can go to salie.com forward slash upshot. Yeah. So if you're not abroad or otherwise, salie.com forward slash Führer for a 30 % discount. Right. So fast forwarding through the siege of Stalingrad and other grim events of the 1940s, when the Winter Olympics did return in 1952, things kicked up a notch. So it was hosted in Oslo in 1952. There were 694 athletes from 30 different nations competing. and boy were they competing particularly the speed skaters several of whom seemed to be acting very aggressively on the day of their event which prompted the physician to go and check out their locker rooms where he found broken vials and syringes and at the time there were actually no rules about doping so he just kept his findings to himself until the race was about to start when half a dozen skaters collapsed.

33:28They were suffering from faintness and pounding hearts. And it turned out they'd been taking quite a lot of amphetamines. So a lot of them were then carted straight off to hospital. Speed. Put the speed in speed skating. A bit of whiz. It would make sense that an amphetamine would help you. Yeah, I mean, on our, which episode was it? We did the 1904 marathon from the 1904 Olympics and that was, they were doped up to the eyeballs. Yeah. With rat poison and various other, a lot of, there were a lot of amphetamines. A lot of champagne as well. Champagne. That's just the era. Yeah. That's Everest space camp stuff.

34:07Champagne. Champagne. Champagne and rat poison. So this was actually the first time that athletes were caught doping at the Winter Olympics. And it kicked off quite a, quite a proud tradition. But then obviously back then it was, it was totally fine. the Olympics, summer and winter, didn't actually ban performance-enhancing drugs until 1967. The first person who was disqualified was a Swedish pentathlete who had drunk two beers before his event. So in his words, steady the nerves. Is that doping? I guess pentathlon, they do shooting, don't they? They do shooting, yeah. You're probably better off for a couple.

34:46Yeah, it's a bit like darts and snookers, isn't it? I don't know if I want them having a gun. But, um, uh, yeah, so that was, that was the first time. There's another good story actually from Nagano, 1998 of drug use. So Nagano, it was the first time that snowboarding had been included in the Winter Olympics. And there was a bit of, bit of an uproar about this because the kind of, the whole vibe of snowboarding was a bit, you know, a bit young, a bit alternative, a bit more fruity. and it really contrasted with this like quite stuffy um traditional past of the winter olympics where yeah it was just you know international students and gay swiss dukes yeah so what we're going they did like the vibe we're going from like guys in like tight trousers with like striped shirts on and like sort of like chelsea boots and suddenly the stoners come in in their huge shoes and baggy jeans yeah exactly exactly you can see it's a culture clash yeah it's the sort of is the jackass crowd turned up to the rich olympics for the first time and the traditionalists were a bit on edge about this they weren't too happy and their fears did come true when canadian ross rabagliati won the snowboarding giant slalom and immediately tested positive for cannabis excellent um so he was he was disqualified after that but actually got his medal back a few weeks later because the IOC realized that weed actually wasn't on the list of banned substances.

36:16So he was fine. So he still got his gold. He still got his gold. He actually, he claimed that he hadn't been smoking himself and that it had been secondhand smoke, which would be slightly easier to believe if he was not now a major entrepreneur in the cannabis industry. Look at a picture of him cradling a humongous bud. Yeah. Oh, so he sells weed now. He sells weed, yeah. He's a drug dealer. Yeah. He doesn't look, he looks more like a cyclist or like almost more of the sort of like posh skier vibe. Yeah. I was hoping for fat dreads. Yeah, you want long, long, greasy hair. Yeah, like just maybe some like what's it dust on the chin.

36:58Energy drink in hand. Yeah, quick silver jeans. Yeah, exactly. Hawaiian shirt sort of vibe. Four years later, there was an even bigger drug lord in the snowboarding event, Ryan Wedding. Friend of the pod. Yeah, friend of the pod, Ryan Wedding. So anyone who's followed Extra Shot, our other podcast for the past year or so, we've been following his case in quite a lot of detail. Brief overview, he finished 24th in the 2002 Winter Olympics in snowboarding, hung up his boots and board after that and threw himself into the world of cocaine trafficking. so he was a major cocaine trafficker for about a decade or two decades in fact uh shipping millions of dollars worth of cocaine from mexico and latin america into the us and canada he was on the fbi's most wanted for several years until he was finally tracked down a few weeks ago he was arrested um and he's looking at a long stretch behind bars yeah uh for we're gonna do an episode on him.

38:04I think we should actually because there are a lot of ins and outs. And funny. Lots of him basically murdering witnesses. Also the FBI operation is called Operation Giant Slalom. Yeah. Investigating his avalanche of crimes. They're having fun with it. They weren't taking it seriously. Maybe they should have done. Anyway, we've talked a lot about him in the past and we might do a full episode. So yeah, leave it at that for him for now. Yeah. Much more wholesome scenes at the 1988 games in Calgary, which was, it was the underdog games. A lot of sort of unlikely heroes ended up being the stars. Firstly, Eddie the Eagle, Edwards, Britain's first ever Olympic ski jumper.

38:45We're looking at a picture of him. He looks like Jimmy Hill in Burkheim, I would say. Yeah, he's a funny looking fella. He's got Jimmy Hill's chin. You're sort of like, because was that look cool at the time? Because now, if you just listen to this, he's got like, he's got very short hair, very big glasses, mustache. He looks like a Berlin graphic designer. Yeah. With Jimmy Hill's chin and eyes. I emphasize. But yeah, there's, um, was that, was that a cool look at the time? Cause he's kind of trendy nerd. Yeah. I think 1988 is the other time where this look is cool, isn't it? Do you think? Yeah.

39:24Where moustaches are like in because there's basically now and the 80s is when that look is cool and any other time in history you're an absolute weirdo I thought his name was Eddie Edwards but it's a nickname I was disappointed to learn but everyone calls him Eddie and he got his first taste of skiing on a school trip age 13 and fell in love with it and when he got home he started doing dry slopes which I always think is that's crossing a line for me dry slopes anyway and it became his obsession that he wants to be in the British downhill skiing team but then he realised it would be easier to get in the ski jumping team because it's cheaper to do it and Britain didn't have any ski jumpers so there's literally no competition getting to the Olympics you just got to enter so he contacted the British Ski Federation who said alright we're up for it you can go to the 1988 Games but you have to jump 50 metres in a competition to qualify, which is like pretty fucking daunting.

40:26Anyway, he's set to work at it and it's an expensive hobby. So he said, I begged, borrowed and stole equipment and slept in cars and cow sheds. So he's a thief. That's the headline. But anyway, so he's basically just like living this mad existence. All his money's going towards that. At one point he's living in a Finnish mental hospital just to save money. to save money is that really who did he just get I was just saving money I was just crashing there for a bit yeah anyway five weeks before the Calgary Olympics he does it he does the 50 meter jump and he's in so he goes to the Olympics where he comes dead last in both events he enters I mean I watched the video it's like if any friend did that jump I'd be impressed yeah I mean 50 meters at that height and to land it is pretty insane.

41:21And it won everyone's hearts because it's this like have a go hero. It's a great underdog story. I say everyone's. He didn't quite penetrate the icy hearts of the Norwegians and the East Germans who their federations called him an Olympic tourist and a clown. But what was the problem with that? Surely that's just a bit of fun. It brings new eyes to the Olympics. Yeah. I guess maybe you say it like devalues their sport. They're just being po-faced. I guess because they take it really seriously. this is their World Cup and they don't want people just being like, oh, I just fancied it. Yeah. The Norwegians are rapidly emerging as the villain of this episode.

41:56The entire country. Nazi sympathizers. Yeah, Nazi sympathizers. Joyless. Po-faced. Got any other Norwegians? We'll see. Anyway, after that, after the complaints of Norwegians and East Germans, the International Olympic Committee changed the rules. So you have to be in the top 30 % of your sport to qualify. So you can't just... like get in like he did. And Eddie tried to qualify for the next three Olympics and failed. But what, so that was the, what was his name? Was it Eddie the Eel? Eric the Eel. Eric the Eel, the swimmer, who had never swam 50 meters before and then competed at the... Yeah, so how did he get in?

42:32How did he get in? Was this a winter only rule? Maybe. Because Norway is shit in the summer one, so Damon complained. Yeah, I don't know, actually, it's a good question. But yeah, Eddie remains a hero to us, much like the Jamaican bobsleigh team, who also made their debut at the same games, wow it really was the underdog Olympics obviously their story got turned into Cool Runnings which I do think we could do an episode on so although one of them Dudley Stokes he's not impressed by the film he said it's a feature Disney film not much in it actually happened in real life which yeah come on mate I actually looked at the story it's actually closer to the film than he makes out there I'm sure all the individual details don't match they don't have kiss the lucky egg before they do it and all that stuff.

43:18But like a lot of it is accurate and quite mad, the broad strokes. So basically these American businessmen, they saw people doing these like tea trolley races and in Jamaica, I think. And they decided to convince the Jamaican Olympic Association to enter a team just for shits and giggles, I think. And so the Jamaican Olympic Association recruited four soldiers. They only advertised it to soldiers. I don't know why. They recruited a team of four. three of them have got names that sound like Cornish villages. Dudley Stokes, Devon Harris, and Caswell Allen. And there was one called Michael White, who, yeah, not quite as sort of Cornish or East Anglia.

43:59Anyway, they begin training. Dudley Stokes. That's got, it's got a lovely little tea house. Yeah. Dudley Stokes. I've just, I've just scoured an Earl Grey there. Yeah. The Caswell Allen village fate. Beautiful. Check out the Tombola. Yeah. Anyway, so these guys begin training. straight away because they've only got four months until the Olympic Games and none of them have ever walked on ice before being selected let alone race to bobsleigh. So does it there's never ice in Jamaica is there? I actually checked snow has never fallen in Jamaica even in the last ice age. It's that tropical. Okay. Which makes sense.

44:35They've got mountains. Yeah they've got mountains. I guess that's what inspired it was they had sort of an equivalent race of like going fast down a hill. Yeah yeah I guess because apparently sledding, the first signs of sledding are in Egypt on sand dunes. Really? Plausible. Anyway, it becomes very clear that they've never walked on ice when they finally get to Calgary and in their first training session, Caswell Allen slips on the ice and injures himself. I love the idea that it's just first step. He was carrying his Victoria sponge to gift it to the Norwegians. He was just off to enter the largest marrow competition.

45:16when he slipped banged his head on the on the coconut guy on the splat the rat game and he was out of the games it was the first time he'd ever walked on ice and he slipped and injured himself yeah it's not a good start my mate actually tried to do a ski season and on his first day he was walking to the ski rental shop slipped broke his leg no season similar story so where did they train then so you'd never walked on ice I think well this was the training they got to Calgary early I think there was a bit of training just like on dirt or whatever you know like with your first driving lesson you just like sit in the car and like bunny hop it was that but obviously they're a man down now and the Olympics are about to start fortunately Dudley Stokes besides bringing his tombola has also brought Chris his brother who has never seen a bobsled before but and he's just there to support him literally just came to cheer along his brother and Chris just joins, joins the team.

46:17He's the replacement. So we're back to four. Devin Harris said, looking back, he said, I can do an accent. We taught him everything we knew about it. Then we began the event three days later. Almost sounds Cornish. It's Cornish village, Devin Harris. Not Jamaican, Devin Harris. Right. So they've now got their team of four into the games. the four man bobsleigh event is you get the idea of bobsleigh you're in this fucking thing you've got to go down this terrifying shoot anyone who's got the guts to even try it because those things they weigh half a ton yeah I doff my hat to them yeah anyway so you get four runs in the event you've just got to get the best time right and going into the third run so they're halfway through Jamaica are second to last which actually it's not bad it's not bad considering one of them has already never seen a bobsleigh yeah I don't know who's at the back They won't be Norwegian.

47:15Actually, into this third run, they get off to a flying start. Possibly too flying because they were going too fast. And we all know what happens next. Here's a clip. Rather untidy high points on these bends. Much harder to drive these four-man sleds. Yeah, they're zigzagging. Total weight of half a ton. You want to understeen, I guess? All over the place in the Chrysler. Oh, and he's on there. He's over. Oh, dear me. Oh, that's terrible. Do they manage to sort of tug your head in? It looks like their heads are like... It's the fact they have to just slow down for ages. Yeah. And everyone's silent.

47:51You know, in the Hollywood version, they get up and they decide to carry it over their head, which I think is pretty hard in real life. It's so heavy. And then the crowd, like the guy who'd been their enemy, the East German baddie, starts clapping really slowly and then everyone claps. It's a tearjerker, to be honest. I'm welling up thinking about it. it's a fucking good film and it is a fucking amazing story like country with no snow yeah fair play to them and also what I didn't know is that Jamaica actually entered three more Winter Olympics with the bobsled team and in one of them in a crew that included Chris Stokes the brother who'd just come along to watch he ends up being a bobsled after that they came 14th out of 25 that is they got pretty good they got good yeah because there's there's sort of cool runnings too happening in this Winter Olympics isn't there so Trinidad and Tobago have qualified and one of their team members is a guy from Yorkshire who I think his mum was like born in Trinidad or something yeah and um he's ginger which is a nice touch ginger guy and yeah they're they're doing this Winter Olympics so keep an eye out for that yeah we'll be watching maybe they've already raced by the time this comes out uh yeah anyway that's a lovely feel good story it certainly is but But not all competitors at the 1988 Games were worthy of a feel-good Disney blockbuster.

49:14So Ingo Stoyer, he's a legend of German figure skating. He was a European and world champion, winter Olympic medalist. And then he ended up becoming a top coach for their national team as well. And Ingo was revered among his peers until it emerged that he'd spent most of the 80s working as an informant for the Stasi, the East German secret police, and had been spying on his teammates. So he went by the codename Torsten. And apparently back in the 80s, the Stasi were especially interested in one of his teammates, Katerina Witt, who she was this upcoming star. She was really glamorous, very beautiful.

49:58And she was like the face of East German figure skating. and they were terrified about her defecting because it would be a terrible look for the state and they'd actually been monitoring her since she was seven. But this is a bit like Sonia Henney then. Yeah, she was seen as this like upcoming star and they wanted to make sure that she was clean. So what year are we in there? Like, this is decade. 80s. This is 1980s. So figure skaters are still a big deal in Germany even then. And the Stasi, they bugged her apartment, they bugged the ice rink where she trained and they then recruited Ingo to spy on her.

50:34So for years, he was feeding the Stasi information, very personal information about her love life and where she'd be at certain times, stuff like that. Fortunately for Katerina, she actually was relatively clean. They didn't find much on her. But Ingo also ratted on another one of his teammates, Skater, who was about to defect to France. and she was hauled in by the Stasi. And it's unclear what happened after that. Never heard from her again. Couldn't find any trace of her. So you stopped her moving to France? Yeah, I think they caught her just before. Bastard. And yeah, judging by what the Stasi tended to do to people, you can imagine it didn't end too well.

51:21Anyway, nobody knew about his Stasi past until 2006 when it was the eve of the Turin Winter Olympics and he was there as a coach for the German national team and these documents came out that proved that he'd basically been ratting on everyone else for decades. And there was this huge furore, as you can imagine, that the German Olympic Committee tried to kick him out and ban him from attending, but there was a big court battle and he ended up being allowed to go to the Games, but the German Olympic Committee refused to let him wear their colours. he was just a coach anyway he was a coach yeah yeah he's not allowed to wear the tracksuit he did actually wear my Stasi jacket instead wear my East Germany one he did actually come back for some later Olympics I guess they decided it was all water under the bridge imagine you as your coach yeah yeah yeah I guess who's he gonna denounce me to now Russia yeah I know yeah it was mad look into it apparently one in at its peak the Stars he had one in six East Germans working his informants for them one in six one in seven which is mental this is one big game of traitors nationwide game of traitors basically yeah I am and always have been a communist a Marxist-Leninist I love the idea of your teammate doing it also figure skating all these fucking stories where people are at their it's the most ruthless yeah it's I don't know is there is there's something very odd about figure skating isn't there are we talking about the racing one or the dancing one dancing yeah yeah I think they're both quite sinister yeah I think the speed skating is quite fun no I quite like yeah I quite like that but yeah the dancing one has I mean it has Nazi origins is what we've learned yeah yeah and Stasi links and actually the skating scandals don't stop there because obviously we can't do this episode without mentioning Tonya Harding and the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan, which was colourfully portrayed by Margot Robbie in the film I, Tonya.

53:34It's probably like the most famous Winter Olympics game. There's been a lot of Winter Olympics films, haven't there? Maybe it's just those two. Blades of Glory. Blades of Glory. This one. There's also a Netflix series at the moment about bigger skating. People are obsessed with it. Wow. I'd see why. Yeah. It's weird. Yeah. From Goebbels all the way to... Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO. They love it. I actually think we'll probably do a full episode on the Tonya Harding scandal at some point, but very briefly. So Tonya and Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were America's top two figure skaters in 1994. And Nancy was the clean cut, wholesome, all-American girl.

54:13Tonya was from the wrong side of the tracks, which basically means she smoked, drank, swore. It says here, played pool, which I didn't really... I always knew that crazy cat. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing, Tanya? The signs were that all along. Yeah, Nancy's a billiards girl. Oh, she also drove pickup trucks and skated to ZZ Top, which is, yeah, the rock and roll. And she did these homemade costumes that were quite like out there. Quite right. Anyway, they were still, despite being chalk and cheese, they were quite friendly until in the buildup to the 1994 Winter Games ahead of a major tournament, Nancy was attacked.

54:59Someone whacked her around the legs with a metal bar. And it turned out in the aftermath that Tonya Harding's ex-husband and her bodyguard had hired a third man called Shane Stant to break Nancy Kerrigan's leg to try and ruin her Olympic hopes and boost Harding's. I mean, to be fair, he ruled Nancy out of this tournament at which Tonya went on to win. But in the wider perspective, he didn't do a great job. So firstly, when he got there to do the hit, he didn't recognize Nancy Kerrigan. So he had to ask a spectator to point her out, which was used against him as evidence. And then when he did hit her, he had this like telescopic baton, you know the vibe, but he missed her knee.

55:42So he ended up only bruising her. He needed to like shatter a meniscus. So actually, all right, she missed that tournament, but Nancy was able to compete in the Olympics after all. It was all for nothing, really. Yeah. Yeah, they've hired a moron. A moron to do this job. If you want a job done properly, do it yourself. Yeah, agreed. And also, you don't want to involve more people. Yeah. I don't know where they found this guy. I mean, at least look at a picture of her before. Don't go around. If you're doing a hit on anyone. I can see how it's quite hard. They're all in their like sparkly costumes.

56:17I don't know. You only watch the gymnastics. I think if you've been hired for that job, there is one thing you have to do, which is just make sure you know what they look like. To be fair, his bungling operation didn't end there because he then tried to make a stealthy escape, but he panicked, reached, he basically went all the way down this corridor, reached a dead end that was a fire escape door. And he was like, fuck, I'm not walking all the way back there. Because like now there's obviously a commotion building around her. Yeah. So he headbutted his way through the glass fire escape door. Great.

56:46So now he's just covered in blood. dazed set off an alarm dazed confused set an alarm he's just stumbling around yeah this guy's an idiot could it be the bloke who's got glass in his beard anyway so he ends up he gets time in prison Tonya and Nancy actually both end up going to the Olympics in Lillehammer is that Norway yeah where there's this huge media frenzy around it can you imagine they still go again it's a bit John Terry and Wayne Bridge but like yeah times 10 uh tanya ends up finishing eighth and there's that famous clip of her crying on the ice it is a cartoonish crying face yeah um that was because her lace broke though right was it yeah she was halfway halfway through her routine and one of her laces broke which meant she she messed up her routine but i think they let her go again the judges isn't her thing that she she was way more ambitious she had this move she kept trying to pull off that was really ambitious that was fucking, it's like an extra axle or something.

57:49Yeah. Something like that. Anyway, it's still disputed whether she tried to orchestrate the attack. Yeah. She had quite a mad life after that as well. I think, I think there's some porn, there's a porn career at one point. Yeah. Oh yes. So I think we'll do it for an episode. Keep them wanting more. And there's been some scandals in the, in the more recent games as well. So much like the summer games, the Winter Olympics are an absolute bonk fest. So in 2010 in Vancouver, they ordered in 100 ,000 condoms. Some athletes came out and said there were six of them said that they had a late night whirlpool orgy in one of their accommodations.

58:31Whirlpool makes it sound cool, but it's like a jacuzzi. I thought it was like, have you ever been to one of those water parks where there's like a thing that like sucks you down? Don't need six people to enjoy that.

58:44So sorry. Six people are naughty in those shoes. There's another story I liked from 1994 when an American skier claimed that two German bobsledders had tried to swap their gold medals with her for a threesome. There's something... What makes this story is there's two German bobsledders. The bobsledders... Like, bobsledding's not a cool sport. Unless you're part of the Jamaican bobsled team. Yeah, there's only one cool bobsled... There's a packing order, lads, and you are not you're not you're not bagging a skier no you won't bagging a skier try your luck with the curlers the Scottish farmers the Scottish curlers will be up for it I think I'm picturing this very like lithe she's got like extremely long legs one of those like head warmer things you squat bobsledders with beards like vikings dragging their knuckles towards her it's gonna take more than a gold medal to get that son yeah what else is the pecky order?

59:44Who's at the top of the... I think skiers are at the top, aren't they? That's how graceful. And they're like really athletic. Figures skaters, probably. Figures skaters. Figures skaters, Nazis and skiers at the top. Yeah. Bobsledders at the bottom of the curlers. Curlers is definitely bottom. Curlers and cross-country skiers as well. Yeah, that's a bit more plodding. It's got no grace. Where are snowboarders in that? Do they stick to their own? I think snowboarders... I think the figure skaters who want a bit of rough, bit of rough, they go for the snowboarders. Yeah, a bit of body hair. That's like the Avril Lavigne skater boy type moves.

1:00:20Yeah, they're punching them up their weight, aren't they? They're snowboarders. Yeah, they shouldn't. They're the guys you look at and you're like, how? Yeah. So when the figure skaters have tired of the jocks, the other figure skaters and the skiers, then they... Yeah, it's Teenage Sturtback. Yeah. The snowboarders turn up with their Harley Davidson. Yeah. Yeah, it's the premise of every teen film from like 98 to 2005. Teenage dirtbag. What are some other events? Obviously skeleton and luge are just like slightly more attractive than the bobsledders because it's not a team sport. Yeah. Ski jumping.

1:00:57I think as well, like the luge and the skeleton people, they're such like adrenaline junkies. I don't think they're, I think they're, you try and take them home and they've popped another pill and they're on the dance floor still. Or they want really crazy sex that you don't want. You've got to like dangle by your ankles from the ceiling. At the same games, there was a bit of a scandal because the Russian figure skaters turned up in Aboriginal themed outfits. Oh yeah. We're looking at them now. They've basically got blackface. Why? They browned up? They've like brown, we've got sort of tan brown face makeup.

1:01:33Yeah, like noughties fake tan. Yeah. Sandra Paye cream. They've got like face paint on in sort of Aboriginal paint patterns and their body, they've got like brown bodysuits again with the Aboriginal sort of painting style all over it and leaves strapped to them. And they performed to music of didgeridoos and rhythmic chanting. Love it. Didn't go down too well. It's actually not though the worst outfit that a Russian ice dancer has ever turned out in. because a few years earlier, a guy called Anton Shulopov did a concentration camp themed dance to the school of Schindler's List. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Anton turned out in a half-half mixed suit.

1:02:27Half of his suit was Jewish prison clothes with the yellow Star of David. The other half was a Nazi guard's uniform. Oh my God, we're looking at a picture of him. He's literally got the star and the number. He's got the star and David, the boy in the striped pajama. Yeah. And then like SS leather Hugo Boss vibe. It's sort of like, you know when you sometimes see people in like half-half shirts? I'm just a fan of the concentration camp too. I support both teams there. Can't they just get along? What was a concentration camp themed dance look like anyway? I don't imagine there's much dancing in concentration camps.

1:03:03is it like you goose step for a bit and then you do like then you're like breaking rocks yeah you're breaking rocks maybe an escape attempt yeah the like finale is you like bid for escape and then you're being dragged back by yourself it's um I don't know what how did he do that wasn't Olympics was it that one it was like some niche no so he actually so there was like a bit of a roar of it but he ended up being put forward by the skate federation for best outfit

1:03:35which I mean you've got to say he's put effort in yeah there's a lot of thought behind it there's obviously an element of it that's heinous but you do have to admire Russians just like savage humour yeah like they kind of don't mean it in a bad way do you know what I mean kind of it's yeah they're fucking wild hasn't yeah that's what we've lost by Russia not competing are Russia competing no no they're banned that's absolutely wild will we get outfits like that this time well there's the minion guy the minion figure skater but interesting that we've come full circle here because we started with skating and Nazis and we finished with skating Nazis and in a way that's what the whole thing's about it kind of comes back to our whole point from the start that it is I mean we've said before rich people love Nazis right yeah they like dressing as them they love dressing up as Nazis and this the Winter Olympics is and they like skiing posh gay people yeah they like skiing and they like dressing as us.

1:04:35They're like anti-Semitism. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks a lot for watching and listening. If you enjoyed that, we will be covering all the wildest characters and stories from this year's games on Extra Shot, which you can listen to every Thursday if you're a Patreon member. Just go to patreon.com forward slash Upshot Towers and yeah, we'll pull out all the Nazi dances, all the secret spies, all the hot tub whirlpool orgies. There'll be a lot of it, I'm sure. And the rest. Yeah. Thanks a lot. We'll see you next time. Cheers. Thanks.

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