What Next - The Olympics Meet the Culture Wars
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
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Summary
How Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting—two women boxers fighting in the gender category they were assigned at birth—became the targets of trans panic and subject to another round of “but is she woman enough?” at the Olympics.
Guest: Rose Eveleth, reporter and host of the podcast Tested, from NPR and CBC.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and Jolliaman, this is a final four. |
| 0:18.5 | On Tuesday, millions of people tuned |
| 0:21.0 | into the Olympics for the well-to-weight semi-finals in women's boxing. |
| 0:25.3 | For nearly a century, champions have been crowned at Roland Garros in Paris, but never quite |
| 0:32.1 | like this. It has, Yayam Suwanofang, went head to head with her Algerian opponent, |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Héliff. |
| 0:41.0 | At this point, she's done a great job at putting it all aside and just focusing |
| 0:48.2 | on what's in front of her and that's what they have to do. |
| 0:50.6 | They have to just put everything to the side, get in there, execute, and win this fight. |
| 0:56.0 | The fight went three rounds. Each round went to Kalif. |
| 1:01.0 | The crowd erupts as her latest combination lands. |
| 1:06.0 | At the end, she got a roar of massive cheers. |
| 1:09.0 | Her opponent even hugged her. |
| 1:11.0 | Tonight, she did her talking in the ring. |
| 1:14.0 | I did not see or hear many people talking about women's boxing in Paris. Reporter Rose Eveleth was in Paris this week for the Olympics. |
| 1:28.0 | I will say I did when I was walking home last night to the apartment I was staying in before I left Paris. The fight was on, |
| 1:36.3 | the Amman-Haleh fight was on. And some people had stopped to kind of watch it and I actually |
| 1:40.8 | asked someone that was standing there I said hey you know like |
| 1:43.4 | have you been following this and he was like no what's going on. |
| 1:47.8 | Evelath hosted the tested podcast from NPR and the CBC. It's all about the world of sports sex testing with a |
| 1:55.9 | particular focus on track and field. And while they went to Paris to check out the |
| 2:00.8 | elite female runners, the visit just happened to coincide with a brewing |
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