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Outside/In

Don't Cheer For Me Argentina

Outside/In

NHPR

Documentary, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Sam won’t tell you this, but he’s a really great athlete. He has another secret, too. There’s this photo of him leading a ski race, and it’s plastered on the side of a city bus in Argentina. So, how did Sam wind up on the side of a bus? This story explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Look at all these outdoor pictures.

0:04.0

That's all I post is that.

0:07.0

Wow, how can...

0:09.0

Sam, what is this?

0:11.0

Yeah, that's that's me. Wow. I wouldn't even, with all the gear on your face, I wouldn't even be able to tell. How do you know? Are you sure? Okay, so go to that, we do one more, one more picture, there's a close up. Okay. introduce yourselves first. Oh I am Maureen I produce this show I am

0:35.1

Taylor I also produce and you are yeah and I'm Sam I'm the host of Outside In and

0:41.6

okay and to clarify this is a picture of you skiing and we're looking at a picture and you're on the side of a bus.

0:51.0

Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, why are you on a bus?

0:53.0

I guess we've missed the outrage here.

0:55.0

We demand explanation, Sam.

0:57.0

There's this whole story of how I wound up on the side of a city bus in a town in the very southernmost tip of

1:06.2

Argentina. So are you like famous in Argentina? That's probably too strong a word.

1:12.0

In a very in one, people know my face.

1:15.0

So what, why are you on the side of this bus?

1:19.0

Well, that's the story we're going to talk about today on Outside In, the story of how my face wound up on the side of that bus, but really today is the story of the man who is in second place in that photo.

1:48.0

He's a racer named Martin Bianchi, who made a split second decision that would change the course of his athletic career and his outlook on life. That's Martin, and what he just said is that when he was 24, he went to the

2:05.0

9th of the year of 20th.

2:11.0

That's Martine. And what he just said is that when he was 24 he went to the Winter Olympics in

2:16.0

Torino, Italy.

2:17.4

He's from Usoia, which is the southernmost city in the world.

2:20.6

It's one of the cities that scientific voyages to Antarctica depart from.

2:24.0

Martine grew up at the foot of the Andes and started skiing when he was little.

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