I was doing some work-related research on the Olympic Games when I stumpled upon something I really had no idea about: Town planning used to be one of the Olympic »sports«.
Cited from Wikipedia:
“The American Walter Winans became the only person ever to win Olympic medals both in an athletic competition (a silver medal in shooting) and in an art competition (a gold medal in sculpture).”
and:
“Until the Amsterdam Games in 1928, the architectural competition was not divided into categories. The 1928 games introduced a town planning category.”
It’s a shame this was before the advent of broadcasted Olympics. Imagine if the tv schedule included qualification heats in poetry and oil painting semifinals.
And the opening ceremonies must have been something else. The musculous atheletes, prime specimens of mankind, parading first, followed by the sickly thin artists with bad coughs.
Maybe I have to revise my position. Things were better in the past.
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