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Kennedy Saves the World

Kennedy Saves The Olympics

Kennedy Saves the World

FOX News Podcasts

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4.5813 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kennedy discusses the upcoming Olympic Summer Games, which will take place in Tokyo, how the coronavirus is affecting the games and what to expect from athlete activism or protests. Kennedy also reflects on her experience attending the 1998 Olympics in Japan and why it is such a great place to hold the event. Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Coca-Cola Zero, official partner of the FIFA World Cup 2026.

0:06.9

Coca-Cola has also partnered with Panini to bring fans closer to the tournament.

0:11.7

Selected Coca-Cola bottles will feature exclusive Panini FIFA World Cup 2026 stickers under labels.

0:19.2

Collect 12 exclusive stickers for the dedicated Coca-Cola double-page spread.

0:24.1

Pick up a Coca-Cola zero sugar and start collecting.

0:27.8

Peel, sip, collect. Welcome to Kennedy saves the world, and I'm going to save the Olympics.

0:50.7

So I've had Caitlin fever lately, as you know, and I've been thinking a lot about her majesty in the 1976 Olympics when Bruce Jenner became the most incredible decorated U.S. Olympian, maybe ever in the history of the Olympics dating back to ancient Greece.

1:08.2

All right, that's an exaggeration, but it was an incredible feat, winning the decathlon. It really did pull the country together, and we really socked it to the Soviets and socked it to him again in 1980 when we didn't go in 84 when they didn't come to the U.S. for one of the great Olympics. So now the Olympics have been postponed, supposed to be in Japan. I don't know why they keep giving Japan the Olympics. Japan is great. It's a lovely place, but they keep getting the Olympics have been postponed, supposed to be in Japan. I don't know why they keep giving Japan the Olympics.

1:28.1

Japan is great.

1:28.7

It's a lovely place, but they keep getting the Olympics.

1:31.6

I went to the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, as a reporter for CBS Sports, and it was one of the highlights of my professional career.

1:41.6

I loved everything about it.

1:42.8

I loved seeing the athletes.

1:44.4

I loved hearing the different languages. I loved everything about it. I loved seeing the athletes. I loved hearing the different languages.

1:46.4

I loved covering the opening and closing ceremony.

1:49.9

It's singular.

1:51.2

If you say ceremonies, everyone knows you're an outsider and a fraud.

1:55.1

So if you're ever talking about the Olympics to anyone who has covered the Olympics or been in the Olympics. I always say opening ceremony.

2:01.3

And it's Olympic Winter Games, not summer Olympic games.

2:05.4

It's Olympic Summer Games.

2:06.8

So that's supposed to happen in about 70 days in Japan.

2:12.5

And I love the Olympics.

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