Ep. 215: 2020/21 Tokyo Paralympic Preview

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode Jessica Luther, Amira Rose Davis, Lindsay Gibbs and Brenda Elsey preview the 2020/21 Tokyo Paralympic Games, which start TODAY, August 24, and close September 5, 2021. First they discuss some of the major storylines around the games, including fights for equity for disabled athletes, who is "inspiration" for?, and how the Paralympics show disparities between nation-states. You'll also hear from disability activist Katelyn Steele and 2x gold medal Paralympic swimmer Kelly Crowley. Then, they preview of some the sports and competitors they are looking forward to watching in the games. 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, the Feminist
0:03.3	You Out, and I'm playing with your babies to the screaming shout, oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:12.9	I'm Jessica, and I'm joined by Amira, Brenda, and Lindsay.
0:16.3	This episode is part of our Paralympics week on Burn It All Down.
0:19.8	Today, Tuesday, August 24th, is the start of the Paralympics in Tokyo. They are already happening as you are listening. They run through September 5th. To celebrate, we have a slate of sound coming at you. Hopefully you caught our rear yesterday of my interviews from last year with paraes Kristen Duquette and Lacey Henderson that includes
0:38.0	an update from both of them. Tomorrow we will re-air Amira's interview from 2018 with Dr.
0:43.4	Jana Belanger about disability awareness and sport and how athletes with varying disabilities are
0:48.3	grouped for Paralympic competition. On Thursday, Amira talks to Matoko Rich, the New York Times
0:53.6	Tokyo Bureau Chief about what is happening on the ground there, and we'll have additional coverage in the coming days.
0:59.4	On this week's show, we're going to start with a discussion about the Paralympics, and then we'll tell you some sports and athletes you should be paying attention to over the next two weeks of competition.
1:08.5	Let's go.
1:09.6	Competitors who stare down adversity, obliterate all
1:13.1	obstacles and only have one thing on their mind, show up and dominate. The stars are all ready
1:23.2	to take the stage next. The Paralympics coming from Tokyo. The Paralympics first took place in Rome
1:31.9	in 1960 when 400 athletes from 23 countries participated. Since 1988 in Seoul in 1992 in
1:38.4	in Albertville, the Paralympics have taken place in the same cities and venues as the Olympics.
1:43.2	They now take place a few weeks after the Olympics.
1:46.2	Like so much in sports and society, there's a tension in this delay between the Olympics and the Paralympics.
1:51.3	Separating them gives Paralympians their own platform and space to showcase their athletic prowess.
1:55.9	But as Charles Catherine, a blind paraathlete and associate director of special projects at the National
2:01.4	Organization on Disability wrote for USA Today last year, quote,
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