Interview: Jules Boykoff on the Politics, Power and Pain of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this interview Brenda Elsey and Amira Rose Davis talk with Jules Boykoff, former Olympian and author of Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics. They discuss the many concerns surrounding the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, including human rights abuses China, athletes' health and safety, ecological harm and the prickly politics of mega sporting events. 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.
0:02.6	And I am running the baby's to the screaming show, oh, yeah.
0:09.4	Welcome to Burn It All Down.
0:11.8	I am running the interview segment today with my co-host, Amira Rose Davis, and we are so, so super thrilled.
0:20.6	I can't believe he hasn't been on the show before, other than being discussed on the show
0:26.4	on a pretty regular basis.
0:29.2	Dr. Jules Boykhov.
0:31.5	He is a professor of politics and government at Pacific University.
0:36.0	He has been a stalwart champion for athletes' rights
0:39.2	and a strong critic of mega events, including the Olympic Games. He is a former Olympian
0:44.7	himself and author of many books and articles, even poetry. If you want to have a go-to book
0:51.9	because you're thinking through the contradictions of the
0:55.3	Olympics, check out Power Games, A Political History of the Olympics, which is at Verso.
0:59.9	It was published in 2016.
1:02.3	And as you'll hear today, a lot of his ideas and critiques from back then remain pretty
1:07.8	standard today, if not even have been borne out in ways that are both depressing
1:13.8	and illuminating. So we are super excited to have Jules with us today. Amir and I are both surprised
1:21.5	that he has not been on before. Amir, are you surprised it took us this long to get around to this? I can't believe it.
1:30.6	I'm so excited. It's finally happening. I think that Jules has been hovering over the show. That's why I can't
1:39.3	believe it because I feel like we're always quoting your work, Jules, and shouting it out. And also, I know I'll speak for myself.
1:46.4	Well, actually, I'll speak for many of us who are also just, like, profoundly impacted in engaging in dialogue with you and with your work.
1:54.0	So it feels like your ideas and your words have been circulating on byad for, you know, its entirety, even if you've never been on, which
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