The Paris Olympics Gets Political
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Paris Summer Olympics holds opening ceremonies today, officially kicking off 16 days of elite athletic competition. USA gymnastics legend Simone Biles will return to the mat, while fans will return to the stadiums after COVID restrictions kept them away at the last Summer and Winter Games. There's a political context at this year's contests, too, and demonstrations have already begun in Paris to rally support for several causes. We spoke with Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, about the protests happening ahead of the games.
And in headlines: Vice President Kamala Harris presses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a ceasefire deal in Gaza, California Governor Gavin Newsom instructs cities to remove homeless encampments, and the Ohio Supreme Court delivers a controversial boneless chicken wing ruling.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, July 26th. I'm Trayvon Anderson. |
| 0:04.7 | And I'm Priyanka Aravindi and this is what a day, the show where we regret to inform you |
| 0:09.5 | that former First Lady Malania Trump is releasing a memoir this fall. |
| 0:13.4 | In the words of that jacket she wore to the immigrant detention center, I really don't care, do you? |
| 0:19.8 | No, it did just occur to me that we could do dramatic readings from the memoir for this program, |
| 0:25.0 | and that could be fun for us. |
| 0:27.0 | On today's show, new polling shows Vice President Harris is closing the gap with |
| 0:35.6 | former President Donald Trump. Plus an Ohio Supreme Court says boneless chicken |
| 0:40.5 | wings can have bones. Okay, interested in how they got to that |
| 0:44.6 | conclusion but first it's an even happier Friday than usual because today |
| 0:49.6 | marks the formal start of the Paris Summer Olympics. If the Olympics have not been |
| 0:54.4 | the first thing on your mind lately, we do not blame you. In the last two weeks |
| 0:58.2 | alone we have had an assassination attempt on a former president, a whole |
| 1:02.1 | new Democratic presidential candidate, a man named |
| 1:05.0 | J.D. Vance, who we suddenly have to care about. |
| 1:07.8 | A lot has been going on. |
| 1:10.3 | But starting tomorrow, we have 16 days jam-packed with sporting events of every kind from fan favorites like gymnastics and swimming to new additions like skateboarding, surfing and even breakdancing. |
| 1:21.6 | And of course, all of the world's best athletes in one place. |
| 1:26.0 | And the political backdrop of these games is definitely layered. |
| 1:30.4 | We'll get to more of that in just a moment, but what can we expect to see this year in Paris? |
| 1:36.5 | First of all, COVID restrictions kept fans away from the last summer and winter games, |
| 1:41.0 | but spectators are back this year and ready to watch all of their favorite |
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