The Olympics Aren't All Fun and Games
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Olympics ended yesterday after more than two weeks of exciting international competition in Tokyo. On this episode of the podcast, we're taking a look back at some of the security and international affairs issues that you might have noticed in this year's games and in Olympic history. Rohini Kurup sat down with author Roy Tomizawa to talk about the last time that Japan hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964 and the similarities with this year's games. Bryce Klehm spoke with Libby Lange, a former speech writer for Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, about the tense relations between China and Taiwan on display at the Olympics. Jacob Schulz spoke with Ethan Scheiner, a professor at UC Davis, about the history of violence at the Olympics. And Bryce talked with Claire Collins, an Olympic rower and a member of the U.S. national team, about participating in this year's games and some of the security challenges that followed.
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| 0:29.0 | Security checkpoints along the way. |
| 0:33.0 | So, like, our bus had to get checked as we went in. |
| 0:37.0 | And then when we went back to the village, you went through security, took your temperature, |
| 0:43.0 | had to hold your credentials up to a machine basically verify it was you. |
| 0:49.0 | The government decided it didn't want anything to happen to the Olympics. |
| 0:53.0 | So, there was a giant meeting of students demonstrating protesting, planning their next move. |
| 1:01.0 | And the government sent in troops. |
| 1:03.0 | They sent in tanks, they sent in helicopters, and they started firing on the protest. |
| 1:07.0 | This win in China ruffled some feathers on the nationalist side. |
| 1:11.0 | People saying that Taiwan shouldn't even be competing against China because Taiwan is a part of China. |
| 1:19.0 | You can argue that like 1964, these are in fact the inclusion game. |
| 1:23.0 | Because whether you agree or disagree with the Japanese government, the games went ahead in the face of significant risk. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm Rojini Kurope, and this is the LawFair podcast August 9th, 2021. |
| 1:36.0 | The Olympics ended yesterday after more than two weeks of exciting international competition in Tokyo. |
| 1:41.0 | We're mixing it up on today's episode of the podcast and taking a look back at some of the security and international affairs issues |
| 1:47.0 | that you might have noticed in the Sears games. |
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