Battle of the Bulge: We Expose a Crotch Conspiracy Rocking the Olympics
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Deflategate. Sign-stealing. Lance Armstrong. The competition is stiff, but no dynasty comes close to trying this hard to get ahead. In a soup-to-nuts collaboration, The Athletic's Matthew Futterman reports from the nether regions of the Winter Games on a national nightmare, a Zapruder tape and a confidential investigative report that will redefine the integrity of sport — no matter how impossible it... seams.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a tool created to measure the crutch measurement of all the athletes, which we're doing before the jump and after the jump. |
| 0:16.1 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:23.2 | I've been sort of like puzzling through what should be the first sort of collaboration |
| 0:27.9 | that I do with the Times and the athletic. |
| 0:30.4 | Right. |
| 0:30.5 | My capacity as licensing partner of the athletic podcast network and the New York Times |
| 0:35.8 | company. |
| 0:36.7 | And I was like, let's get Matt Futterman Pulitzer Prize winner. Right. Nailed it. Forget about this small matter of the NFL playoff that might be going on right now. Who cares about that? I was shocked to discover that the Olympics are like around the corner, though. It snuck up on me, Matt. Like that's your life. |
| 0:54.7 | It's not my life. |
| 0:55.7 | Right. |
| 0:56.3 | And I did think to myself, oh, there's, we got a newspeg here. Sneaks up on me a little bit too. I mean, how many is this now? This is my tenth that I'll be on the ground for. God. Yeah. I mean, your beat, if I can describe it at The Athletic, is a fun one. |
| 1:13.0 | I know your byline |
| 1:13.8 | because you're the guy who does sports scandals, especially around like competitive advantage. |
| 1:19.8 | I mean, you're an author as well who's covered that topic, generally speaking. And also, |
| 1:24.0 | you do all these sports that I know nothing about. And that's useful. |
| 1:29.2 | So thank you for being in studio with me. |
| 1:30.9 | Well, thanks for having me. |
| 1:32.6 | And I guess we got to, you know, get you on the tennis court a little more. |
| 1:36.7 | Get you on skis a little more. |
| 1:38.3 | Get you on snow. |
| 1:39.4 | The skis and the snow, I mean, that is a big fascination that I have because I've spent the last, you know, |
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