Welcome to your extra morning show. My name is Philip DeFranco and today we're going to be talking about the Olympics.

Now the Olympics, as you probably already know, is a two week competition

where the most dedicated and skilled athletes from around the world battle in sports from weightlifting to equestrian jumping and from

Taekwondo to the terrifying but so so exciting skeleton.

But recently the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo have come under scrutiny after vote buying allegations

have come out.

With mounting pressure, the President of Japan's Olympic Committee announced that he would be stepping

down over allegations that he paid $2 million to influence the vote of some International

Olympic Committee or IOC members.

But this is also not the first time that a vote-buying scandal has shaken up the IOC.

In fact, many recent Olympic games have been peppered with corruption allegations from 2002

in Salt Lake City to 2012 in London.

But maybe the most interesting part about the Olympics

is that the bidding process is corrupted by vote buying

despite there being tons of evidence that the games consistently

hurt the cities and countries that they visit.

On the other hand, the IOC continues to claim economic benefits and a worthwhile legacy

from hosting the games.

So with that said, to take you through how consistently corrupt the Olympic bidding process is,

and what the Olympics mean for the cities that host the

competition we had Dylan Siegel from the Rogue Rocket team dive into it.

Jubilant officials and residents celebrated at a huge outdoor rally.

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