Match-Fixing, the Oligarch and the Ivy League: Inside the Most Corrupt Sport at the Olympics

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We tumble down the rabbithole of the global match-fixing scandal that’s quietly tearing apart the U.S. Olympic fencing team, ahead of their trip to Paris this month. And we investigate how it all connects to a spiraling refereeing crisis that takes us from Harvard and Princeton to the very top of the International Olympic Committee — and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Where one of the world’s 100 richest people, Alisher Usmanov, has allegedly exported a culture of bribery and corruption that’s scared pretty much everybody in sabre fencing away from talking, on the record. Until now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	How many by percentage would you say referees right now are corrupted in saber fencing.
0:16.7	Mm. If you have, let's say you take the top 20 referees, about half.
0:23.0	Right after this ad. referees about half. half.
0:24.0	right after this ad.
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0:57.3	Okay, so the first thing that I need you to know about this rabbit hole I'm about to dive into is that I did not give a
1:09.0	Fisq about saber fencing or any kind of fencing at all.
1:14.0	But one day recently, this was May 31st,
1:17.5	2024 at 353 PM Eastern,
1:20.3	I got a notification on my phone because somebody had tagged me in a tweet.
1:26.0	And this tweet from loyal PTFL listener at Jim Jimson Jr.
1:34.2	demanded to know how I had not yet done a five-part series
1:38.1	on a first-time Olympian I had never heard of before, a saber-fenser
1:42.0	named Mitchell Serin. Mitchell Serin, who was about
1:46.0	to represent the United States in Paris in now a couple weeks. And while again
1:51.8	I knew nothing about fencing, what I immediately found out was that I specifically
1:56.8	should have known about Mitchell Sarin.
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