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Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 342, The Other Olympics.

As I think back on my childhood, I don't think I ever heard much of anything at all about the Paralympics.

Sure, whenever the Olympics were on TV, there were probably some feel-good stories about Paralympic athletes that would accompany that, but compared to the media blitz of the Olympics

themselves, the coverage was practically non-existent.

And the older I got, the more this disparity became

obvious. I started to read about how American Paralympic athletes got paid less than their

Olympic counterparts. I started to notice how sponsors flocked to the Olympics, but not the

Paralympics, and all of it became harder to overlook.

So in part, this episode exists because, frankly, I don't want to be part of the problem.

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