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Are You Feeling Very O-lympic Today?

Are You Feeling Very O-lympic Today?

FromThe Body Serve


Are You Feeling Very O-lympic Today?

FromThe Body Serve

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Aug 15, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

It's episode 51, and we're wrapping up an eventful Olympic tennis event: the upsets, the Delpo miracle, Puig's big win, and diving in headfirst on issues of race, identity, and political action. You know, light stuff like that. 


0:45 Are we feeling very O-lympic today? Some qualms with Olympic tennis

6:30 Del Potro def. Djokovic, then wins silver

10:45 Other winners: Murray, Nishikori's hygiene, Nadal, gold medalist Monica Puig!

15:30 Venus wins 5th medal, a silver in mixed with Ram

19:00 What's the place of Olympic tennis in the sport in general?

21:30 A racially charged question at pre-Olympics press conference

24:00 Self-identification, generational divides, race, and the "Starbucks model"

33:30 James takes Fast Quiz #2

37:45 #SeeWhatHadHappenedWas Brad Gilbert gets mean on Twitter vs Jack Sock

41:30 A Body Serve update - we're in Cincinnati right now ... stay tuned!
Released:
Aug 15, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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Tennis podcast featuring casual, semi-respectable conversations about the ATP & WTA.