Ep. 237: Olympic-sized Sexism at the Beijing Winter Games

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode Lindsay Gibbs and Jessica Luther discuss big headlines from week one of the Beijing Winter Olympics. But first, they share their favorite Super Bowl LVI moments. Then, they discuss the some of the hottest topics of the 2022 Winter Games so far, including Eileen Gu, Mikaela Shiffrin and Kamila Valieva, and the ways that the commentary around these athletes is sexist, limiting and often times, just bizarre. They also discuss ski jumper uniform disqualifications, why women's hockey should stay in the Olympics and if athletes are using their platforms to speak to geopolitical issues. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Lindsay's interview with Julie Kliegman, Chief Copy Editor at Sports Illustrated about trans swimmer Lia Thomas's fight to compete. Then, the team burns the worst of the sports this week in The Burn Pile. Next, they lift up those making sports better, including Torchbearer of the Week, Natalie Geisenberg, a 34 year old German luger who is now the most decorated Olympic luge athlete, with six gold medals and one bronze. 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	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to burn it all down, the podcast that you all both want and need in your lives.
0:18.0	I'm Lindsay Gibbs, the host today.
0:24.4	Joining me is the one and only Jessica Luther. Hey, Jess. Hi, Lynn. So I think our love of the Olympics is scared the rest of our co-host
0:31.8	away for this week. But that's fine. I think for like the past, like however long Jess and I've known each other, which is a long time at this point, our text threads during the Olympics are a bit much, a bit excessive.
0:47.9	So it makes sense that we're here for this day.
0:49.9	We're just going to go through today a few kind of hot topics from the first week of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
0:56.7	A lot of them revolve around sexism, which will be a surprise to no one.
1:01.1	Surprise.
1:02.0	But first of all, there was this thing called the Super Bowl.
1:06.3	Jess, did you have like a favorite Super Bowl commercial or like moment?
1:10.5	So the Super Bowl was good.
1:12.9	Like just overall as a production like the game was good.
1:16.3	Halftime was amazing.
1:17.7	I am 41 years old.
1:19.0	I was the demographic that they were going more with the halftime show.
1:23.0	And it completely worked for me.
1:24.7	Mary J. Blige's Deserve a shout out here.
1:27.8	I do want to stay on the commercial front.
1:29.8	I could listen to Jennifer Coolidge ask, can I eats it?
1:33.7	Like one million times.
1:35.4	Like I think the Uber Eats commercial is weird and off-putting, except for Jennifer
1:39.8	Coolidge saying, can I eat it?
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