The Politics Of The Olympics

Civics 101

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Government, Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Olympics are a global event. They take years of planning, negotiation and convincing -- not to mention billions of dollars -- to stage. This is how the games are used by the United States and others around the world. This is what it takes to host, what the games do for a nation and what it means when you refuse to attend. Welcome to the Olympics. Our guests for this episode are Jules Boykoff, professor of government and politics at Pacific University and author of several books on the politics of the Olympics, and Nancy Qian, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Northwestern University. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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