Fireworks explode above the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fireworks explode above the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The world’s greatest athletes competing for Olympic gold in Brazil - that’s something worth fireworks and loud cheering. As years of preparation culminate in this time-honoured sporting spectacle, we wonder what the Olympians of old would make of its newer sporting disciplines: trampolining, kitesurfing, skateboarding… we think they’d want to have a go themselves!