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Episode 36: Olympic Diversity, Sports *are* Political, re: North Korea, and Boxer Claressa Shields

Burn It All Down

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5740 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We’re back! Happy new year! This week, Shireen Ahmed, Amira Rose Davis, Lindsay Gibbs, and Jessica Luther talk about (the lack of) diversity in the Winter Olympics and athletes of color headed to Pyeongchang next month. Then they discuss how recent actions by North and South Korea around the Olympics reveal the lie that sports (and the Olympics, in particular) aren’t political. Then Shireen interviews boxer and double gold medalist Claressa Shields about Shields’ upcoming fight, her activism around the water crisis in her hometown of Flint, Michigan, and, of course, karaoke. As always, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, Bad Ass Woman of the Week, and what’s good in our worlds. As mentioned by Amira at the top of the show, Samierra Jones’ GoFundMe to raise money to help purchase space heaters and outerwear for Baltimore students attending school with inadequate heat: https://www.gofundme.com/we-need-heat-in-our-public-schools To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For more info check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com Timestamps -- Intro (5:46) Diversity in the Olympics (18:50) Sports and politics, re: the Olympics (29:30) Shireen interviews Claressa Shields (37:59) Burn Pile (48:15) Bad Ass Woman of the Week (50:12) What’s Good (54:15) Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome to this week's episode of Burn It All Down, the first episode of 2018.

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It may not be the feminist sports podcast you want, but it's the feminist sport you need.

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On this week's panel, we've got Amira Rose Davis, Associate Professor of History at Penn State and All-round Badass, Jessica

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Luther, independent writer, General Slayer, and author of unsportsman-like conduct, college football

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and the politics of rape. Lindsay Gibbs, the brilliant and indomitable sports writer

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at Think Progress. And I'm Shereen Ahmed, freelance sports writer and cat lover freezing in Toronto, Canada.

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