Sport is full of hidden games, contests within the contest that we rarely stop to notice. Hidden Games goes looking for them across the widest possible range of sports: the two-second choreography of an F1 pit stop, the battle between mind and body in the final miles of a marathon, the science behind a gymnast’s early peak, the rituals that surround a sumo bout, the technology that puts robot jockeys on racing camels, the psychology behind a dart player suddenly losing the ability to throw, or the extraordinary use of sound that allows a blind footballer to find the goal.

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Each episode begins with something happening inside a sport and asks a simple question: what is really going on here? The answer can lead anywhere, into neuroscience, engineering, technology, psychology, physiology, history, faith or culture. From the world’s biggest sporting stages to games and traditions rarely seen beyond their home countries, the series reveals the other competitions taking place beneath the one we think we are watching.