Sacred Forests: The Olympics Land on South Korea

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Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week, we give a preview of the Winter Olympics with Jules Boykoff, co-author of Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics. We also talk about the geopolitics surrounding the games, the destruction of sacred spaces in South Korea brought on by the Olympics, and whether we can expect athlete protests this year.During Choice Words, we’ll examine comments made by recent Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles on the topic of a White House visit. Legendary goalkeeper Neville Southall gets a Just Stand Up Award from us for comments made to the Financial Times about economic inequality and racism and Mike Pence does Mike Pence things, earning another Sit Your Ass Down! award. As always, we've got a Kaepernick watch and more on this week's show!Jules BoykoffTwitter: @JulesBoykoffhttp://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-zirin-boykoff-pyeonchang-olympics-20180208-story.htmlZirin, Dave Why So Many Philadelphia Eagles Are Rejecting This White Househttps://www.thenation.com/article/why-so-many-philadelphia-eagles-are-rejecting-this-white-house/—http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)—Music: Eye Examination - Del the Funky Homosapien | X - Kendrick Lamar Feat. Schoolboy Q, Saudi, & 2 Chainz | Stadium Pow Wow - Tribe Called Red Feat. Black Bear | I Gotcha Back - GZA | Kill Bill - Big Boi Feat. Killer Mike & Young Jeezy | Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See - Busta Rhymes | My Shit Bang - E-40 | How Ya Do That - Master P | Paramedic - Kendrick Lamar Feat. SOB X RBE | The Wire Theme Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hey, Edge of Sports listeners, don't forget that you can sustain this show by going to
0:06.2	Patreon.com slash Edge of Sportspod. What we have this week is another extra, another Dave Z talks about
0:14.7	stuff. So this week I'm going to be speaking about my own thoughts about the South Korean
0:19.9	Olympic Games.
0:21.2	So, so please go to patreon.com slash edge of sports pod and you get all kinds of extras that
0:27.8	frankly are just too much fun for words. So please support the show because you get something back.
0:54.4	Welcome to the edge of sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we speak to Jules Boykhoff, author of the book Power Games, a political history of the Olympics, about everything going down with the South Korea Winter Games.
1:00.7	Also, I've got some choice words about why the Philadelphia Eagles, so many of them,
1:05.7	plenty of them, are going to skip the White House visit this year.
1:09.1	Some of their quotes will absolutely peel your eyeballs back.
1:15.0	And I got you just stand up and just sit your ass down awards, some Kaepernick watch,
1:16.8	and much, much more.
1:19.5	But first, let's talk to Jules Boykopf.
1:30.6	So, Jules, you and I have been commenting on the Olympics for some time, correct?
1:31.7	Indeed.
1:32.7	Indeed.
1:40.3	Oftentimes together on the same panels and writing the same articles like we did this last week and the L.A. Times.
1:46.8	And we have a shared analysis of the Olympics that they tend to bring debt displacement,
1:52.4	hyper-militarization, bad for the environment, and that those issues don't get discussed nearly enough. So, Jules, I'm hoping, can you apply that, please, to South Korea? What are we seeing
1:59.2	there in terms of debt displacement, militarization, the
2:02.8	environment? Like, what is the tally? What is the cost in South Korea? Well, first of all,
2:09.4	I would say that those trends you described are indisputable. I mean, they've been just happening
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