For those of you who still aren't catching on, the seemingly haphazard nicknames of the Spice Girls were actually extremely spot on. Each girl fell into their on-stage character effortlessly, from the outfits they wore to their personalities. Of all the nicknames from the Spice Girls, "Sporty Spice" just made the most sense. Odds are just about every time you saw Melanie "Mel C" Chisholm dancing on stage or strutting the red carpet, she was wearing a tracksuit.

In 2013, Bustle provided more detail into the origin stories of the various nicknames, writing that "Sporty Spice" actually came from Mel C's love of "The Great Gatsby." The outlet noted that the singer apparently would walk around calling people "Old Sport," like the Jay Gatsby character does in the F. Scott Fitzgerald book. However, the whole thing was a farce; although readers may have fallen for the stories, the claims were all made up as part of an apparent joke. 

As hard as people have tried over the years to assign more meaning to the nicknames, the real story is just not as colorful. In all honesty, we have a forgetful journalist to thank for the now-iconic nicknames we all know and love. Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction!