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Episode | Description | Categories | Contacts | Reach | Guests | Hosts | Date Aired | Length | Curator's Notes | ||||
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Hosting the Olympics is a monumental undertaking that often leaves behind rusted stadiums and financial losses. So why do nations compete to do it? This episode examines the political history of the g | -- | -- | -- | July 15, 2020 | 35:45s | ||||||||
Greg Jenner and his guests Professor Michael Scott and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi limber up for a trip to the ancient Olympics. Discover the drastic measures taken to prevent women watching the actio | -- | March 6, 2020 | 47:39s | ||||||||||
In this episode, you’re going to learn the fascinating origin of the Olympic Rings. Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by goin | -- | -- | -- | February 20, 2014 | 6:25s | ||||||||
I am pleased to have worked with Win from the podcast Ask Win for this episode and I’m going to let her introduce it. When Win first talked to me about doing an episode in conjunction with Cerebral Pa | -- | -- | April 5, 2018 | 7:16s | |||||||||
Last year, Assignment investigated whether some athletes and coaches game the Paralympic classification system in order to win medals. We heard allegations that some competitors had gone to astonishin | -- | -- | -- | October 11, 2018 | 26:46s | ||||||||
When new sports are added to the Olympics — like surfing and sports climbing — they see a bump in the year following the games. But, what happens after that? | -- | -- | September 10, 2019 | 9:20s | |||||||||
Back in the pre-pandemic days we had a sporting event called The Olympic Games. And at those games there was an opening ceremony that featured the lighting of a cauldron from a torch. Let's chat about | -- | -- | August 13, 2020 | 44:04s | |||||||||
No snow, no problem: more than 25 nations competing in the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang are considered tropical countries. In Episode 1, Tim Struby set out to examine why a generation of "tropical" | -- | -- | -- | January 8, 2018 | 17:55s | ||||||||
This 2012 episode covers the 1936 Berlin Olympics and African-American sprinter Jesse Owens, as well as the games as Nazi propaganda. More nations than ever participated, and the Olympic torch was use | -- | -- | February 20, 2021 | 26:12s | |||||||||
The 1968 Olympics took place in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first Games ever hosted in a Latin American country. And for Mexico City, the event was an opportunity to show the world that they were | -- | -- | June 27, 2017 | 21:58s | |||||||||
For Vladimir Putin and Russia, the Olympics were not simply a sports competition; they were a show of power on the world stage. And ahead of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, the national team was crimi | -- | -- | -- | July 30, 2020 | 40:14s | ||||||||
“The number one objective of my Olympic pursuit was to heal a broken soul.” Gold medalist Billy Mills set a world record in the 10,000-meter race at the 1964 Games. He shares how running created a ref | -- | -- | -- | May 20, 2016 | 9:56s | ||||||||
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The real story of the greatest team in NBA history, the 1992 Dream Team that won Olympic gold in Barcelona. Hear the incomparable players in their own words, including Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, L | -- | -- | May 11, 2020 | 3:09s | |||||||||
In the middle of the Cold War, Romanian gymnastics coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi turn Nadia Comaneci, a 14-year-old gymnast from a Communist country, into a global symbol of excellence at the 1976 O | -- | -- | July 14, 2020 | 41:39s | |||||||||
Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state, its subsequent unmasking and the ongoing fall out amidst the power play of nation against nation. T | -- | -- | -- | July 6, 2020 | 15:20s | ||||||||
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