Photo: Frank Miller, Irish Times

While few may train for the Olympics anymore by balancing champagne glasses on hurdles, a Chariots of Fire race is still run each May around the front square of Trinity College.

The host Dublin University Harriers and Athletic Club describes the event: Racing is in pairs with the final held at noon. The course starts at the Rubrics, goes under the Campanile, then the runners loop around opposite halves of the lawn in Parliament Square, finally finishing under the Campanile...To keep with tradition the bells of the Campanile ring out across Front Square during the final...[T]he winner is never certain due to the merciless cobble stones.

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In keeping with the Chariots of Fire spirit, here is an mp3 of the Overture from the Pirates of Penzance, one of a series of shows indexed by the MUGSS Old Soaks, the Old Members of the Manchester Universities' Gilbert & Sullivan Societies.

Elsewhere, the Babliophile describes itself as An Internet Magazine for the Seriously Deranged W.S. Gilbert Enthusiast.

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Here's what they're wearing in Athens this year.

I prefer straw hats.

Or laurels.

Other historic Olympic images found via Corbis:

The 1924 Mexican team.

Some Like it Hot was inspired by these 1924 US swimmers.

Marathon, London, 1908.

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Scott Joplin was the composer of the day when the Olympics were held in St. Louis in 1904. Here's his "Swipesy Cake Walk," as performed by Perfessor Bill Edwards.