The most political Olympics since the Cold War

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a special Olympics-themed episode of Worldly, Yochi, Jenn, and Zack look at how global politics will shape next year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea in a way that hasn’t been seen since the height of the Cold War. The International Olympic Committee has already banned Russia because of a massive doping scandal, and the nuclear standoff with North Korea could make some countries jittery about sending athletes to the games. Add it all together, and you have the potential for an Olympics like no other. Jenn confesses to a passionate love of figure skating, Zack argues for taking the world’s guns and giving them to Olympic biathletes, and Yochi makes the case for why skeleton is the only sport you should watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to worldly, Fox's weekly guide the most important stories in the world, part of the
0:12.4	Vox Media Podcast
0:13.8	Network. I'm here with Jen. Hi, Zach. Hey! And we have something special for you
0:18.2	this week. It's part of the podium, a podcast collaboration between NBC Sports Group and Vox Media.
0:23.7	Beginning in January, the podium will bring you athlete profiles,
0:27.3	daily updates, exciting stories all from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in
0:31.8	Pionk Chang Pionk-Chang, South Korea.
0:34.9	But today, before the Olympics begin,
0:37.2	we're going to talk about something else,
0:39.0	not the usual heartwarming profiles of athletes,
0:41.5	the guesses of how many medals countries will win,
0:43.7	why skeleton is without question the best sport to watch.
0:46.6	Instead, we're going to talk about politics,
0:48.4	and more specifically the way that political fights
0:50.4	around the world shape the Olympics in ways that range from violence to
0:53.6	bands to boycotts. I can't say at this moment what other nations will not go to the Summer Olympics in Moscow?
1:07.8	Ours will not go.
1:10.0	So that was the charismatic voice of President Jimmy Carter in 1980, talking about how the US would skip the games in Moscow.
1:16.4	We also could have gone with a clip of Russians talking about why they were going to skip the games in Los Angeles in 1984,
1:21.8	or literally other examples of countries skipping
1:24.1	for reasons big and small and politics will hang over next year's games also and
1:28.7	Zach let's start there what's happened already what may happen why will politics be a big part of what's coming?
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