These Crazy Things Actually Happened At The Olympics

At the 1960 Rome Olympics, the Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila apparently couldn't find his favorite pair of shoes before the marathon, and ran barefot instead. Even crazier, he won!

At the 1900 Paris Olympics, someone thought it would be a good idea to add live skeet shooting to the roster of events. Belgium’s Leon de Lunden, who managed to shoot 21 pigeons, won the gold medal.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the organizers accidentally hung a Chinese flag with stars incorrectly positioned, and didn't realize until days later. How does that happen?

Right after the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the two teams met in water polo in 1956, Melbourne. Players got into a real brawl, ending with Hungary's Ervin Zador getting a bloddy poke in the eye. Ouch!

Perhaps the most famous and tragic Olympics on record, the Arab terrorist group Black September brutally killed 11 members of the Israeli team, after taking many of them hostage.

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, with Adolf Hitler presiding, Black-American athlete Jesse Owens not only won several medals against the Germans, but raised a defiant fist in open protest of the Nazis.

Between 1928 and 1948, the Olympic Games featured a competition called "Town Planning" (seriously) where competitors submitted designs for urban development projects. Is that even a sport?