What if the most famous athlete at an Olympic Games finished dead last, by a comical margin? This episode follows Michael Eddie Edwards, the working-class plasterer who became Britain's first Olympic ski jumper at the 1988 Calgary Games and charmed the planet while the sporting establishment fumed. It's a story about the tension between elite athletic purity and the unstoppable human will to simply participate.

We trace how Eddie exploited a loophole, switching from downhill to ski jumping because Britain had no other jumpers, then trained on borrowed gear, wore six pairs of socks, and slept in a Finnish mental hospital for cheap rent. We cover his last-place finishes, the affection that made him a global celebrity, and the IOC's Eddie the Eagle rule that locked him out, plus his bankruptcy, his law degree, a Finnish pop single, and the 201 ...