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  • Episode 135
  • 06 Aug 2016
  • 28 min

Are the Olympics still worth it?

  • The Foreign Desk
  • Episode 135
  • 28 min

Now that the Olympics Games have begun, what better time to ask why cities so desperately want to host it? We discuss Toronto’s failed bids and Antwerp 1920 in the days when small cities had their moment in the Olympic sun. Plus: we talk to sports historian David Goldblatt, author…

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  • Steve Bloomfield

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