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Burn It All Down

Ep. 210 Part II: Tokyo 2020/21 Mega Olympic Preview

Burn It All Down

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5729 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The Tokyo 2020/21 Olympics are the Pandemic Games. Even so, over two episodes (210 Part I and II) Burn It All Down will preview EVERY sport with excitement, cynicism, awe and critical thinking. In Part II, Brenda Elsey, Amira Rose Davis and Lindsay Gibbs cover who to watch and what to know about the following events: swimming, track, modern pentathlon, beach volleyball, surfing, wrestling, shooting, fencing, boxing, gymnastics, diving, sport climbing, equestrian, skateboarding, basketball, handball, rugby and indoor volleyball. They also discuss what sport they'd like to see included in the Olympics that is not, as well as what sport they'd like to medal in. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to burn it all down, and I'm joined you out for part of our

0:18.1

for part two of our mega, super,, ultra-uber, gargantuan summer Olympics preview where we try to prep you for a tournament we didn't want to happen.

0:30.8

But we are also riveted by.

0:34.7

News is coming and coming.

0:36.6

It's been kind of sadly predictable. On the one hand,

0:41.1

already people are looking forward to Paris 2024, possibly LA 28, thinking about what it's like

0:48.4

to have these mega events in places with infrastructure a little different than we see, for example, at the coming

0:56.0

2022 Qatar World Cup. And yet, we're right in the middle of a pandemic. And COVID has already

1:05.4

compromised these games. This week, tennis player at Cocoa Gough tested positive and

1:10.2

announced she will not be competing.

1:12.7

The AP reported former distance runner Tegla LaRoupe, the chief mission for the IOC's refugee Olympic team, many of which will be featured in this episode, has tested positive.

1:24.1

And so two people knowledgeable of her condition have already told the Associated Press, and it's

1:29.6

unlikely she will be able to go to Japan. The first positive tests reportedly of South African men's

1:35.9

football players have come from inside the Olympic Village. So it keeps going just sort of the way that

1:42.9

we thought it would, and that's really awful to watch.

1:45.4

For more on our analysis of the politics of having these games at all, see our recent episodes 208 and 206.

1:52.2

But if you search burn it all downpod.com, you'll be treated to dozens of our episodes and takes on this,

1:59.0

as well as interviews with our friends like no Olympics

2:01.8

folks and expert professor Dr. Jules Boykoff. So with that all in mind and heavy hearts,

2:09.1

we are still going to press forward and thinking through what these Olympics might bring for us,

2:15.4

what we can still get excited about and the people

2:18.3

that we really want to cheer on.

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