Ep. 232: 2021 Stories That Flew Under the Radar

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode Jessica Luther, Shireen Ahmed and Lindsay Gibbs talk about important sports stories from 2021 that went widely unrecognized. You'll hear about women's sports media, the implosion of the Syracuse women's basketball team, the start of a Saudi Arabia domestic women's football league, the IOC's gendered and racist persecution of runner Caster Semenya, the cancellation of the Women’s Baseball World Cup and the prolific handball goalkeeper for Iran's national team, Fatemeh Khalili. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Shireen's interview with Michelle Moore, an award-winning leadership coach, speaker and educator about her work in racial equity in sports and writing her book, Real Wins: Understanding the power of difference to make meaningful gains. Next, the team burns the worst of the sports this week on The Burn Pile. Then, they lift up those making sports better, including Torchbearer of the Week, Kristen Hayden, who won with her partner the mixed synchronized 3-meter competition at the USA Diving winter national championship, making her the first Black woman to win a national diving title in the US and get an invitation to the world championships. They 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, and this week I'm joined by
0:05.0	you know what you might have missed in 2021.
0:22.6	Of course, we'll burn things, highlight torchbearers, and tell you what's good in our world,
0:26.8	as well as what we are watching this week.
0:28.9	But first, before we get into all of that, we are about to go on our annual break at the end of the year.
0:36.5	The next time we're going to record an episode like this is in January of 2022.
0:42.2	Wow.
0:42.8	So I want to know what you all are looking forward to during our break.
0:48.2	Lindsay.
0:49.3	Sleeping in on the weekends.
0:51.5	And as the non-parents of the group, I know that I'm uniquely
0:59.2	positioned to allow that. But I don't know. I'm very excited. I'm just very excited for the holidays.
1:04.7	I mean, obviously the pandemic is still raging. And I'm very aware of that. But, you know, last year we didn't do it all our Christmas Eve,
1:13.9	you know, our big family Christmas celebrations.
1:16.1	Like it didn't happen at all.
1:17.3	I didn't do anything for Christmas last year, really.
1:19.7	And so we are doing them this year, you know,
1:23.1	vaccinated and tests and everything, knowing there's a risk.
1:27.1	But that's what I'm most excited about
1:29.0	is actually getting to do Christmas. And remember last year I was moving in the middle of
1:34.1	Christmas. So last year, Christmas was just like, it was a pandemic and I was moving. So
1:39.0	it was not Christmas. It just, it was not Christmas. Oh, well, I'm happy for you. That's very exciting.
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