Culture Chat: The glory and controversy of the Olympics

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today, we’re catching Olympics fever. Paris bureau chief Leila Abboud and US sports business correspondent Sara Germano join us from the Games to talk about atmosphere, politics and sports. Was the opening ceremony truly that controversial? Will the Paris Games change the way the Olympics are produced? What should we watch and whom should we root for?

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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):

-Sara’s article about the potential of track and field outside the Paris Olympics: https://on.ft.com/4fqyF55

-Leila and Sara cover the French swimming star Léon Marchand here: https://on.ft.com/3WwLXEf

-Josh Noble’s feature on breaking, which Sara mentions: https://on.ft.com/3yd9ked

– Leila is on X @labboudles. Sara is @germanotes.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend. I'm Katya Kumkova. I'm in for Lila Raptopoulos,
0:07.0	and this is our Friday chat show. Today we're talking about the Paris Olympics. The games
0:12.4	opened last Friday with a rainy outdoor ceremony that included historical references, a heavy metal band,
0:19.4	drag queens, and some sexual innuendo. It was actually a pretty
0:23.3	incredible spectacle, though since then it's gotten a lot of pushback, both in France and outside of it.
0:29.3	These games are being hailed as the first sustainable Olympics because a lot of the structures
0:35.0	that were built are going to come down. It's the first Olympics to
0:38.6	have gender parity among participants, or so we're told. And of course, there are a lot of
0:44.1	exciting sporting events to look forward to, including the brand new sport of breaking, which you
0:49.0	may know as breakdancing. So today we're going to talk about what to expect and what it all means. I'm Katia. I'm sailing in on a
0:57.7	flotilla of boats. With us today joining me from Paris is our gold medalist, Paris Bureau Chief
1:05.0	Leila Abood. Hi, Leila. Hello. And also in Paris is B-girl Sarah Germano.
1:12.3	Sarah is the FTs U.S. sports business correspondent.
1:15.2	Hi, Sarah.
1:16.1	Hi.
1:16.6	Is this where I say yo, yo, yo, yo.
1:18.4	Yo, yo.
1:19.4	Yes, perfect.
1:22.0	Okay, well, let's set the scene first.
1:24.7	We're a few days in.
1:26.0	How are you feeling about the Olympics?
1:28.0	What's the mood?
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