After a wild, wacky, and weird first season, James, Ben, and Carlin sit down to once and for all crown the wildest story with an official re-rank to end season one.

Thanks to executive producer Zoe, the boys have a state of the art, highly scientific system at their disposal to accurately and officially rank all 21 stories told in 2025 - The W.I.L.D.N.E.S.S Scale (Patent pending).

So sit back, crack a couple of beers, and prepare for over 2 hours of unbiased circle-jerking fun as your three hosts take a trip down memory lane and relive each and every one of this year’s wild stories on their journey to find the wildest story from the world of sport.

Presenters:

James Whybrow

Ben Whybrow

Carlin Sheaves

Music, cover art, and ranking system:

Zoe Behrendt

When Wilma Rudolph was born premature and underweight, her family knew she would have a tough life ahead of her. Then, after contracting measles, pneumonia, Scarlett fever, and paralytic polio, doctors told her mother that she would likely never walk again. But she regained the ability to walk and only a few years later, Wilma was competing at the 1956 Olympics in three sprinting events. Four years after that, she had broken multiple world records and won gold in three different events.

So hit the starting blocks and prepare to sprint to the finish line for the penultimate episode of Wild World of Sport season one. Our Christmas special features discussions about debilitating diseases, Shaquille O’Neil’s birth weight, and our final ranking on our wild and mild board for 2025, in our journey to find the wildest story from the world of sport.

Sources:

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/wilma-rudolph#:~:text=Rudolph%20survived%20bouts%20of%20polio,mother%20told%20me%20I%20would.

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/remarkable-rudolph-defies-odds-with-sprint-treble

https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/wilma-rudolph

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/polio/symptoms-causes/syc-20376512

https://www.achievementnetwork.org/hubfs/blog%20pdfs/Wilma+Rudolph+Text+and+Textual+Analysis.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1961/02/04/archives/one-world-indoor-record-set-and-two-tied-in-millrose-track-at.html

https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/wilma-rudolph#:~:text=She%20also%20became%20a%20motivational,Athletic%20Association's%20Silver%20Anniversary%20Award.

Presenters:

James Whybrow

Ben Whybrow

Carlin Sheaves

Music and cover art:

Zoe Behrendt

Cynisca, princess of Sparta was born in the late 5th century BCE and lived into the 4th century BCE. Cynisca is famous for holding the prestigious title of being the first woman to win an Olympic event in history - during a period when women were not allowed to compete or even spectate the event, under punishment of death. She accomplished this by exploiting a loophole in the rules, and her victories paved the way for other women to be able to compete in the Olympics for the first time in hundreds of years.

So sit back and enjoy a dive down the ancient Olympics rabbit hole featuring a debate on partridges in pear trees, a dodgy microphone, and three men interrupting a women - who happens to be the only qualified person on a show trying to find the wildest story from the world of sport.

Sources:

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/five-historic-firsts-for-female-olympians

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/12-july-1912-fanny-durack-becomes-the-first-female-olympic-swimming-champion

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43610326

https://www.thoughtco.com/women-at-the-olympic-games-120123

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/ancient-olympic-games/spectators

Women in Ancient Greece - World History Encyclopedia

Spartan Women - World History Encyclopedia

Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part III: Spartan Women – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

The Lion of Sparta: Agesilaus II and the Impossible Empire | by Leslie | Time Chronicles | Medium Scanlon, Thomas F. (6 April 2004). "Games for Girls". Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America.

Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 1, chapter 6

Pherenike of Rhodes: The Ancient Greek Mom Who Risked All to Guarantee Her Son's Olympic Glory - The Pappas Post

Pherenike the Female Olympic Trainer - World History Encyclopedia

https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-kyniska-the-first-female-olympian-123909

https://www.thoughtco.com/women-at-the-olympic-games-120123

Pausanias, the first travel writer: a historical perspective | Journal of Travel Medicine | Oxford Academic

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/07/26/alluring-anecdotes-about-the-olympic-games/

Chariot racing - Ancient Olympic Games IvO 160 - PHI Greek Inscriptions ToposText P17103coll10_1784.pdf

https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/j6731770d?locale=en

Presenters:

James Whybrow

Ben Whybrow

Carlin Sheaves

Zoe Behrendt

Music and cover art:

Zoe Behrendt