Daily: THE WEIRDEST OLYMPICS EVER with FT Sport Editor Murad Ahmed

The Bunker

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🗓️ 8 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Recorded at 11pm on Saturday night and already our GB medals toll is out of date… At the end of the most controversial Olympics in almost a century, Financial Times Sports Editor MURAD AHMED calls us from Tokyo to lift the curtain on what it all means. Is the International Olympics Committee finally getting the message on athletes’ mental health and political commitments? Did the “Russian Olympic Committee” successfully pull a fast one on the anti-dopers? Is Britain’s commitment to medals all it seems? And did the Japanese people learn to love the games they wanted to cancel? https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast “The sport has been fantastic, but the pandemic has taken away the Olympics atmosphere” “People would wave at me on the bus thinking I was an athlete” “For me, Simone Biles choosing to focus on her mental health was the biggest moment of the games” “If you think you’ve been watching clean sport, then you haven’t watched the Olympics. This goes well beyond Russia” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.4	And with me, up bright and early on his clock at least to give us his take on this most
1:24.2	extraordinary and unusual Olympics is Morad Ahmed, sports editor of the Financial Times.
1:29.4	Good morning, Murad, how are you?
1:31.2	I'm all right, how are you? I'm all right, you know, we've been swept along
1:36.4	supporting actions and that kind of thing. Exactly, bleary-eyed. That's what an Olympic
1:40.4	does to us. I say yes, bleary I don't know, I've decided the world.
1:44.0	So thanks to get up so early for us.
1:45.6	Has it been your routine throughout the games by the way.
1:47.5	What are Japanese breakfast like?
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