When the Olympics gave medals for painting

What BBN said about it

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFolks, they are handing out gold medals for painting at the Olympics! Not sprinting. Painting!

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorA man is standing in the stadium with a brush, and the crowd has to stay quiet!

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat can't be real, Rex. Paint drying is not a spectator sport.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt's five events, Chip!

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorArchitecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture, and every single work has to be inspired by sport! Somebody wrote a poem about a javelin and went home with hardware!

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA poem about a javelin. So the real athletes are the artists we met along the way.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt even has a nickname, the Pentathlon of the Muses, and it was the idea of the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin himself!

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorPentathlon of the Muses?

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAnd here's the stunner!

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAt the very first one, only thirty-five artists are known to have entered, and they still handed out gold in all five categories! Thirty-five!

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCome on, that is not a real thing that happened.

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt is Stockholm, nineteen twelve, and the art competitions ran at the Olympics all the way to nineteen forty-eight, per Wikipedia.

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThat's thirty-six years of medals for paintings!

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorRex, with thirty-five entrants, I like my odds. I've got a whole wall at the Sunny Acres Plaza.

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorStart stretching, kid. Painters pull hamstrings too.