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After a week off, Miguel shares Part 1 of his Cancel the Olympics series this week. In Part 1 of the series, Miguel spoke to Eric and Taylor, 2 members of NOlympics Los Angeles, "launched by the Housing & Homelessness Committee of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in 2017. The coalition has since expanded to include over two dozen partner organizations based in Los Angeles and California, as well as a growing transnational movement with dozens of groups around the world (https://nolympicsla.com/about/)." Follow them on Twitter: @NOlympicsLA. 
 
First, Eric and Taylor explained how Los Angeles won the 2028 Olympics instead of the 2024 Olympics and broke down who the prominent stakeholders were that made sure Los Angeles hosted the 2028 games. Also, Miguel, Eric, and Taylor discuss the legacy of the 1984 Olympics and its impact on Black and Brown people, the working-class, and the poor. 
 
In particular, Eric and Taylor explain how LAPD Chief Daryl Gates conducted gang sweeps via Operation Hammer before the 1984 games. They also speak about next month's Summer Olympics Games in Tokyo and the work the comrades in Japan have done to fight the capitalist Olympic machine, plus more! 

Lastly, Miguel gives you his Molotov MVP for episode 21, Las Vegas Raiders Defensive End Carl Nassib, who last week was the first active NFL player to come out as openly gay. He ends the podcast with a different approach to his Chicana/o Sports History segment. On Saturday, June 19, 2021, a video went viral on social media of an ugly, racist ending to a CIF San Diego Section championship High School Boys basketball game between Coronado High School and Orange Glen High school. It is important to note that Coronado High School is predominately white and from an affluent area of San Diego, and Orange Gen High school is predominantly Mexican and from a working-class San Diego area city, Escondido. 

After Coronado's buzzer-beating three-pointer in overtime to beat Orange Glen 60-57, players and fans associated with Coronado started hurling corn tortillas towards Orange Glen players and coaches. Orange Glen players, coaches, and fans were outraged and called the incident racist. As a result, a Press conference was held on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, by players, parents, coaches, and Orange Glen High School supporters, cond

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Joy Dennis and Sammy Slater of the 2021 NCAA Champion USC Beach Volleyball team join Nara to go over how the team came together after the 2020 season was cut short by the pandemic and became a national title-winning squad for the 4th time in program history. They discuss how head coach Dain Blanton leads the team both on and off the sand, how excited they are to watch teammate Tina Graudina in the Olympics, and why they never got paired together for a match as Trojans. If you Bleav in Everything USC, you need to listen to this podcast and Fight On!

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Taekwondo Life Magazine looks at the announcement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Refugee Team. Twenty-nine athletes competing across 12 sports and from 13 host National Olympic Committees (NOCs) will be part of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team (EOR) Tokyo 2020. The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today approved the composition of the team.

The athletes were selected from among the refugee athletes currently supported by the IOC through the Olympic Scholarships for Refugee Athletes programme. They will send a powerful message of solidarity and hope to the world this summer, bringing further awareness to the plight of over 80 million displaced people worldwide.

Addressing the athletes, the IOC President said: “Congratulations to all of you. I speak on behalf of the entire Olympic Movement when I say that we cannot wait to meet you in person and to see you compete in Tokyo. When you, the IOC Refugee Olympic Team and the athletes from the National Olympic Committees from all over the globe, finally come together in Tokyo on 23 July, it will send a powerful message of solidarity, resilience and hope to the world. You are an integral part of our Olympic community, and we welcome you with open arms.”

These include 3 players in the Sport of Taekwondo: Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi, Kimia Alizadeh, and Abdullah Sediqui.

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USC women's beach volleyball head coach, Dain Blanton, returns to the show to detail how the Trojans won the 2021 NCAA Championship, the 4th national title in program history. He and Nara go over the midseason lineup shakeup that may have helped lead to the championship run, what to expect in 2022 and what advice he gave to Tina Graudina before she goes to the Olympics for Latvia. If you Bleav in Everything USC, you need to listen to this podcast and Fight On!

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Will the Tokyo Olympics Ever Happen? The 2020 Tokyo Olympics was one of the many casualties of the Worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Only three (3) prior times in the modern history of the Summer Games have the Olympics been cancelled. In early 2020 the IOC decided to delay the start of the games due to the worldwide medical crisis. Now as the year 2021 approaches, and the world is still in the grips of dealing with the impact of the pandemic, will the games be further delayed, or even cancelled? Will the worldwide Taekwondo athletes that have been training so hard be deprived of their shot at Olympic glory? If the games take place, what impact will the interruption of sparring training have on their performance? What protocols will need to be in place to keep athletes and spectators safe if the games do take place? These questions are explored by Taekwondo Life Magazine's host, Marc Zirogiannis, in this look at the modern history of the games.

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USC Beach Volleyball head coach and Olympic gold medalist Dain Blanton is Nara's guest to discuss how his first season at the helm of the Trojans' team was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic and what to look forward to (hopefully) in 2021. They also talk about the return of the AVP with its Champions Cup Series, Blanton's experience in the Olympics, and what can be done about the lack of diversity among beach volleyball players. If you Bleav in Everything USC, you need to listen to this podcast and Fight On!

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“Just thinking that I lost this love of my life was something that I was really having a hard time to come to terms with.” - Amanda Kessel

Olympic gold and silver medal winning professional hockey player Amanda Kessel and Danielle McCartan have an open conversation about Amanda’s concussion-related mental health struggles and discuss a pragmatic plan to grow the women’s game efficiently and effectively. What took the NHL so long to get involved? Furthermore, we’ll contrast the way of life of NHL players (of which Amanda has intimate knowledge: her brother Phil Kessel is alternate captain of the Arizona Coyotes AND she is a New York Rangers ambassador) to that of professional women’s league. Amanda outlines the impetus behind the 200+ player boycott of the NWHL and USA Hockey.

We'll also tackle:

• NHL’s return to play plan
• A deep dive into concussion-related depression
• Competitiveness in the Kessel household
• Playing on boys teams
• The manifestation of statistical growth in girls hockey by being a New York Rangers hockey ambassador
• Being part of NHL's All-Star weekend 2019
• What would a W-NHL look like?
• AK28 clothing line
• ...and SO much more!!

A listener question from Joe in Long Island: Would a 12 team women's league (2 six team divisions) and a 54 game schedule be plausible?

A discussion with an Olympic Athlete about the delay, staying prepared, advice to young softball players, and about the radioactivity in Japan ahead of the games.

We need to take care of the world first: the Olympics is the world’s game”. 

-Monica Abbott

Softball, after a 12 year hiatus, is again recognized as an olympic sport... but we have to wait one more year to watch Team USA pitcher Monica Abbott and company potentially win gold in Japan. Abbott and fellow pitcher Kat Osterman are the only two players to bridge the gap between the 2008 silver medal winning team and on the upcoming olympic team.

Abbott and I talk about:

• The emotions when USA Softball was informed of the Olympic delay on a team phone call
• “Life put on hold another year”: A world-class female athlete's perspective on sacrifices
• “We had a big talk about that”: Thoughts on the possibility of playing in front of not one, single fan 
• Amidst the pandemic, additional significance in wearing "USA" in these upcoming Olympic Games
• As players, we always replay the plays that we could have changed. What is one play from the 2008 loss in the Gold Medal game that Abbott would change the outcome of? 
• An Olympic delay: staying motivated physically and mentally
• Pushing the naysaying thoughts from out of your mind
• A unique perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on those athletes that have lost a season of ball
• How could the players work to overcome the “lost time” from COVID-19

AT HOME WORK FOR PLAYERS OF ALL AGES:

• Abbott's conditioning and skill work (with minimal equipment) recommendations
• How to refocus after a stray thought pops into your mind while playing- examples she’s experienced
• 2021 OLYMPICS
• Leveraging experience of playing professionally in Japan to benefit 2021 Team USA softball
• Has the US Olympic committee debriefed the athletes about the radioactivity in Fukushima?
• Is Abbott worried?

MY FORMER PLAYER'S QUESTIONS:

• Anna from NJ: What are your thoughts on the mound during an Olympic game?
• Jenna from NJ: What is your favorite pitch? Why is it so effective? Favorite part about being a pitcher?

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• Josh from Connecticut
• Mike from New Jersey

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This episode is a rebroadcast of our look at the 1980 Olympic boycott. It happened 40 years ago, but contains some lessons for what athletes are facing today. On this day, BMX competition was originally scheduled to begin in Tokyo. But in March, as rising COVID-19 cases sent nations scrambling, the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee announced that Canadians would not go to the 2020 Games. Two days later, the IOC said it would postpone the 2020 Olympics for a year.

Recently, as we passed the one-year-to-go-until-the-rescheduled-Olympics date, talk of cancelling the 2021 Games started up. On July 22, the president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee Yoshiro Mori said to Japanese media that if the pandemic continued has it had been so far, the Games could not go ahead in 2021. A few days before that, the Kyodo news agency released the results of a poll that showed that only 23.9 per cent of the people surveyed throughout Japan thought the Olympics should be held. A segment as large as 36.4 per cent thought the Games should be postponed again. From the survey, 33.7 per cent said the Games should be cancelled.

With the threat of Olympic cancellation creeping in once again, let’s listen to track cyclists Gordon Singleton and Steve Bauer, and road cyclist Louis Garneau as they discuss the time, 40 years ago, that the Olympics didn’t happen for Canadian athletes.

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Today Jan and Larissa talk about the Olympics. We dive into all aspects of the Olympics both past and present. We even share some of our memories of the Olympics.

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TJ talks with Clayton and Ari about being newlyweds and their wedding (:27). Clayton discusses if his bronze medal in Rio gives him more confidence to make the 2020 Olympic team (2:28) and how being married to a former Olympian helps his training (4:16). Clayton and Ari talk about how they balance traveling the world to compete and still being able to enjoy the places they get to visit, including the Rio Olympics(7:57). Clayton and Ari give TJ some behind the scenes stories from the 2020 Rio Olympic Games (13:35). They talk about what the relationship is like competing for the same medals against their friends (20:17).  Ari talks about how having so many fellow Oregon Duck teammates on the USATF roster eased her nerves in Rio. (23:09). 

Ari discusses any thoughts she's had about returning to track and field (24:30) and what she has been doing in the meantime (30:13). Clayton tells TJ about his championship pedigree as a pig showman and how that has helped his track career (34:20). He also talks about the lifestyle changes he made when moving out to Oregon from Ohio (38:19). TJ asks Clayton about the differences in his approach to this track season knowing it ends with the Olympics (40:00). Lastly, Ari and Clayton talk about what they expect the new Hayward Field to look like (45:13). 

In the season 2 premiere of the Getting Into Trouble Podcast, our new crew discusses the plight of the Muslims in Western China. We start by explaining the situation and end with a lively discussion of the complexities of this human rights violation. 

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Anastasija Zolotic is a rising star in the competitive Taekwondo landscape. She is one of the exciting young stars of the USA Taekwondo program. While her future is bright, and her career is just beginning, she has already amassed an impressive record. At just 17 years old she has already had a Gold medal winning performance at the Pan Am games. Her medal winning performance at her very first Senior Grand Prix made her the youngest Taekwondo athlete in the world to win a medal at a Grand Prix. Ana talks with Marc Zirogiannis about her love of Taekwondo and about USA Taekwondo's "National Center of Excellence" in Colorado Springs, where she will be training full time with Coach Gareth Brown. Coach Brown, together with Coach Paul Green, recently moved to the U.S to coach the her, and the rest of the USA team. Ana is on the fast track to make the 2020 US Olympic Taekwondo team.

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