How Are Cities Chosen For The Olympics?

Civics 101

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Government, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Olympics are a global event. They take years of planning, negotiation and convincing -- not to mention billions of dollars -- to stage. This is how the games are used by the United States and others around the world. This is what it takes to host, what the games do for a nation and what it means when you refuse to attend. Welcome to the Olympics. Our guests for this episode are Jules Boykoff, professor of government and politics at Pacific University and author of several books on the politics of the Olympics, and Nancy Qian, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Northwestern University. Want more Olympics coverage from NHPR? Check out our sister podcast Outside/In's episode "Hot Olympic Summer: Is Paris Greenwashing the Games?". CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Can I do do the John Williams Olympic theme of mouth trumpet? Of course.
0:04.0	I think the Olympics
0:07.0	I think the Olympics theme is one of the unsung heroes of the John Williams
0:17.5	repertoire. It's one of my favorites it's up there with Raiders of the
0:20.7	The Lost Star. My TV when I was a kid couldn't get any
0:23.4	channels like local or cable or anything all we could do is watch the VCR so my
0:27.7	grandmother every four years would mail about 20 tapes of the Olympics to me and
0:32.2	my sister and we'd watch them
0:33.7	religiously. What was your favorite year? 1988, Seoul. Reebok, Reebok, and you thought
0:40.9	everything was happening in Seoul. We know all the commercials.
0:44.4	Great run. Winners give their best all the way to the finish line.
0:47.9	Did you love it for the commercials or for the athletes? For both because we didn't have TV so the commercials were just as joyous.
0:53.0	And you thought everything was happening in soul.
0:58.0	Every two years, people who represent the absolute best in their field, the best in the world,
1:11.6	descend on one of the globe's cities,
1:14.0	and show us exactly what they can do.
1:17.0	And no, I'm all, yes, ow,
1:20.0	A, mate the mistake! The story of the battle, ladies there too.
1:24.0	But here's though.
1:25.0	Bold charging you abroad.
1:27.0	Gays come in, but can't catch him.
1:29.0	You say, bold!
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