The Politics Of The Olympics

Civics 101

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How do nations -- and their athletes -- use the Olympic games?

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0:00.0	Can I do the John Williams Olympic theme on mouth trumpet?
0:03.2	Of course.
0:04.2	I think the Olympics theme is one of the unsung heroes of the John Williams repertoire.
0:17.9	It's one of my favorites.
0:19.7	It's up there with readers of the Lost Ark.
0:21.6	My TV when I was a kid couldn't get any channels like local or cable or anything.
0:25.8	All we could do is watch the VCR.
0:27.5	So my grandmother every four years would mail about 20 tapes of the Olympics to me and
0:32.1	my sister and we'd watch them religiously.
0:34.8	What was your favorite year?
0:36.4	1988.
0:37.4	Seoul.
0:38.4	And you thought everything was happening in Seoul?
1:03.8	92 years.
1:07.4	Translation.
1:17.4	And now, let's get to our...
1:21.0	Ah, no, no!
1:22.0	What's this?
1:23.0	Oh, he's 17!
1:24.0	But here's the goal!
1:25.2	Don't talk to him, you've won!
1:26.6	He's coming to get catching!
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