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welcome to the cotkey ride home for mond Monday, July 26th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Back in your

feeds after a break. Thanks to Glenn Fleischman for filling in for me. And today, a look back at when

the Olympics used to give out medals in artistic categories, including the designing of Olympic medals,

and the case for why they should bring that back this year in particular. Plus, some more background

on how the wildfires on the west coast of Canada and the U.S. are affecting weather and health

all the way in New York City and beyond.

And the Cleveland baseball team has officially changed their name, something they used to do quite a bit of around the turn of the century.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

The Tokyo Olympic Games officially kicked off at the end of last week, and I'd feel a bit conflicted about this. The IOCs made a number of calls recently, and historically, that don't

exactly jive with my views, and of course there's the fact that more than half of the

Japanese population opposed the games happening due to concerns about COVID-19, as Wired said,

quote, The Olympics are one of Earth's great symbols of international cooperation. But this year,

the games are also a mass gathering in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century,

where people from nearly every country on Earth will gather in a vast congregate living setting

and compete in some close-contact sports, sometimes indoors.

What could possibly go wrong?

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