After back to back olympics, what is the fix here for these olympics? How about taking the i o c out of it. Find a find a really good sports management company or something like that. And then you just have a great sport spectacle,. which is what people want to see. That is my top of the head, spitballing idea, shon without being thought out.
This year’s weird Winter Olympics were overshadowed by politics, Covid-19, and the threat of war. But as NPR’s Tom Goldman explains, the biggest scandals were still about the sports.
This episode was produced by Will Reid with help from Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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