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What Next: Drugs and the Olympics

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Slate News feed! We’ll be sharing daily episodes from Slate’s podcasts What Next, What Next: TBD, The Waves, and A Word. Listen for everything you need to know about the news this week. Olympics officials have created an anti-doping system to crack down on cheaters. We have no idea if it’s working. And it’s ensnaring athletes for seemingly bizarre infractions. Guest: Lindsay Crouse, writer and producer for the New York Times Opinion section. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, and Carmel Delshad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.2

For Lindsay Krause, the first sign something wasn't right, with America's fastest woman,

0:39.0

Shikari Richardson, came from social media.

0:42.4

When I saw her post on Twitter, I am human.

0:46.2

I was really wondering what she meant.

0:48.8

Lindsay writes about sports for The New York Times.

0:51.4

She was also a competitive runner herself.

0:53.8

She knows athletes can sometimes post this cryptic stuff.

0:58.2

But she'd just watched Richardson pull off this tremendous win at the Olympic trials.

1:03.8

With her burnt-orange hair flying behind her, Shikari Richardson dominated.

1:13.8

Then she ran up into the stands.

1:21.8

I think she's going to find mom.

1:23.8

That's when Richardson collapsed into her grandmother's arms.

1:26.8

We'll talk about the race in a moment, but just to rush to get up the steps to see your

1:30.7

family, your grandmother, your dad, your mom, everybody.

1:33.6

What does that mean?

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