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PTFO - Why Olympic Sports in America Will Never Be the Same: A Deep Dive

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

An existential paranoia has been lurking beneath the surface at the Olympic Village, where the most pressing story doesn’t get talked about on TV. We field an urgent video call from Team USA diving coach Drew Johansen about the "unintended consequences" of the system quietly responsible for more than 1,000 Olympians who competed in Paris. And how the most recent update in the NCAA’s legal fight could sink your favorite Olympic sports back home on campus... and at the 2028 Games, in Los Angeles. 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

Maybe there's one more run in 2028, you know, or will it? Well, we see it degrade so fast in the next two to three years that the story of

0:18.2

LA is you know where did uh where did all our great Olympians go?

0:23.0

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1:15.0

What's happening where you are? Where are you right now?

1:18.0

Yeah, well, I'm in a hotel outside of the village where I can record this without the distraction of the dorm and my

1:26.7

roommates. There's six other people in there from two other sports and it was just

1:31.4

going to be chaotic. So I came to the hotel that my wife's in outside of the village and

1:38.0

everybody thinks the Olympic Games is all about glamour and it's hard work.

1:44.0

We started on day one right after the opening ceremonies and then

1:47.6

we'll go until

1:49.1

uh the day before the closing ceremonies. Okay, so the we in question here, the we that is competing until the day before Sunday's closing ceremony

2:01.0

is none other than the United States Olympic diving team, which is

2:04.8

coached by the man who wanted to join the show today, despite being in the middle of all

2:08.0

of that, and his name is Drew Johanson, who is also known as the head coach at Indiana University, and he's also the

2:15.4

greatest diving coach in America.

2:18.6

Because yes, of course, we are a show that loves a deep dive, but also this episode is about a hidden and uniquely American story

2:26.8

that you're not going to see on television. This is a story that is lurking just below the surface,

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