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You Can’t Make This Up

Bad Sport: Gold War

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The world of sports and true crime collide in the new Netflix series, "Bad Sport." The show examines the misdeeds of athletes, coaches, officials... and even nations. Episodes include a point-shaving scandal in basketball, a match-fixing case in soccer, an Indycar drug smuggling operation, and an insurance fraud involving the assassination of... a racehorse. But today we focus on the episode set in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. For decades, the Russians had dominated the sport of pairs figure skating. But that year, the underdog Canadian pair turned in a flawless performance, while their Russian competitors stumbled. To the shock of the sporting world, the judges denied the Canadians their gold medal. Then the Olympics was thrown into confusion when the French judge said she was forced to give the gold to Russia. “Gold War” recalls the score-fixing scandal and looks at the two couples caught in the middle of an international incident. In today’s episode, we speak to Lizzie Kempton, the episode director of "Gold War." This is You Can’t Make This Up — where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

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0:00.0

Welcome to you Can't Make This Up, where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite

0:10.5

Netflix documentaries and films.

0:13.6

I'm your host Rebecca Lervoy.

0:15.6

On today's episode, we take a closer look

0:18.0

at the new six-part series Bad Sport.

0:21.0

And she said, Sally, Sally, you've got to help me. You don't understand. I had to do it. It was a deal with the Russians.

0:32.0

Today we're talking to the director of one of the episodes,

0:34.8

Lizzy Kempton.

0:36.3

The world of sports and true crime collide in this series,

0:39.4

examining the misdeeds of athletes, coaches, officials, and even nations.

0:44.7

Episodes include a point-shaving scandal in basketball, a match fixing case in soccer,

0:50.5

an indie car drug smuggling operation and insurance fraud involving the assassination

0:56.5

of a race horse. On today's podcast we're talking about the episode Gold War.

1:03.0

It looks at the controversy during the 2002 Olympics

1:06.3

in Salt Lake City.

1:07.9

For decades, the Russians had dominated the sport

1:10.8

of pears figure skating.

1:13.0

But that year, the underdog Canadian pair

1:15.4

turned in a flawless performance

1:17.7

while their Russian competitors stumbled.

1:20.6

To the shock of the sporting world,

1:22.4

the judges denied the Canadians their gold medal.

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