Ep. 212: Re-thinking Olympic So-Called Disappointments

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Amira Rose Davis, Shireen Ahmed and Lindsay Gibbs start the show with customized "twisted" triathlons. Then they dive into a discussion about the immense pressure Olympic athletes carry into these games and what happens when they they don't meet the expectations placed on them. This episode revisits, contextualizes and reclaims three historical so-called disappointments: the 2000 Sydney Olympics vault controversy and Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina, world renowned Brazilian gymnast Daiane dos Santos never capturing an Olympic medal and Perdita Felicien's 100m hurdles in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Next is a preview of Amira's discussion with three writers on the African Diaspora in the Tokyo 2020 games. Then they torch all the garbage in sports this week on The Burn Pile. Following the flames, they celebrate those shining light including so many Olympic firsts and Torchbearer Raven Saunders, silver medalist in the shot put, Olympic twerker and voice for the oppressed. The wrap up the show with what's good in their lives and what they are watching in sports this week. 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.
0:03.0	And I'm
0:04.0	AIMAN'
0:05.0	Welcome to burn it all down.
0:10.0	It may not be the feminist sports podcast you need, but hey, it's what you got.
0:15.0	I'm Amira Rose Davis.
0:17.0	Today I'm here with Lindsay and Shireen.
0:19.0	We are going to be talking about Olympic disappointments,
0:23.0	or are they? We're going to be rethinking a lot of those ideas about disappointment in the Olympic
0:29.8	Games. We also, of course, will be burning a lot of things and lifting up some torch bears
0:37.3	of the week.
0:38.2	But before we get into all of that, y'all, you know, first of all, I've gotten very
0:42.4	into triathlons.
0:43.3	I told you the miracle for me was I watch all one hour and 45 minutes of the men's try.
0:48.9	But when me and Lindsay did a pop-up primetime event for our Patreon, thanks to all those
0:54.0	who joined.
0:55.2	We talked about how chaotic the triathlon was and I invented a new Olympic sport, which was at random.
1:04.0	You would pick three Olympic sports and that would be your new twisted try.
1:08.7	So I had to know, Shereen and Lynn, if you guys had to make a twisted try. So I had to know,
1:12.2	Shereen and Linz,
1:14.8	if you guys had to make a twisted try,
1:17.5	what three Olympic events would they be?
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