EPISODE · Dec 12, 2015 · 49 MIN
The Olympic Nightmare
from Not by the Playbook · host BBC World Service
The death of the 10 year old Eduardo de Jesus is being seen as a watershed moment in the way Rio’s favelas are policed after an officer was charged in connection with his death. Alex Capstick has been speaking to Eduardo’s mother Terezinha Maria de Jesus about this recent development. With Rio 2016 just months away, she says the methods used by police to clean up favelas is coming at too high a price.Baseball’s Barry Bonds on a Bike Baseball's all-time home run scorer Barry Bonds is a controversial name in the sport. He was once convicted of perjury - based on testimony he gave during the investigation into BALCO performance enhancing drugs scandal. Earlier this year, the one remaining charge against him was dropped on appeal. This week Bonds was given a coaching job at Miami Marlins, but he isn't just a one sport man. In his time away from baseball he invested in the Twenty16 Women's cycling team. We speak to the former world champion Mari Holden who is the team's sports director and Bond's partnerFury Furore The BBC’s decision to include Tyson Fury in the SPOTY short list has caused no small amount of controversy considering some of the views the new Heavyweight Champion of the World exposes. So how do we balance the desire to find out as much as possible about our sport stars and encourage them to be personalities off the field of play but still allow them to express their views even when they might offensive. Scandinavian Sevens With rugby sevens making its debut as an Olympic discipline in Rio we hear from one of the world’s most unlikely rugby nations as they target future Olympic glory, Norway.Radio Rules We all know it but just to enforce the point we speak to Adam Caroll-Smith author of “The Pictures are Better on the Radio: A Fan's Love Affair with Sport on the Wireless” mainly because he’s completely right ;)Sporting Witness… Bids farewell to East German Football. In 1990, the East German football team played their last ever match on the same day that the country was formally dissolved. Only 14 players turned up for the international against Belgium in Brussels, but the team went out on a high with a two-nil victory. Uwe Rösler played in that game as football behind the Iron Curtain ended Photo: Mothers Ana Paula de Oliveira and Terezinha Maria de Jesus wearing t-shirts with images of their sons, both shot dead by police in Rio Credit: Marie-Anne Photography
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The death of the 10 year old Eduardo de Jesus is being seen as a watershed moment in the way Rio’s favelas are policed after an officer was charged in connection with his death. Alex Capstick has been speaking to Eduardo’s mother Terezinha Maria de Jesus about this recent development. With Rio 2016 just months away, she says the methods used by police to clean up favelas is coming at too high a price.Baseball’s Barry Bonds on a Bike Baseball's all-time home run scorer Barry Bonds is a controversial name in the sport. He was once convicted of perjury - based on testimony he gave during the investigation into BALCO performance enhancing drugs scandal. Earlier this year, the one remaining charge against him was dropped on appeal. This week Bonds was given a coaching job at Miami Marlins, but he isn't just a one sport man. In his time away from baseball he invested in the Twenty16 Women's cycling team. We speak to the former world champion Mari Holden who is the team's sports director and Bond's partnerFury Furore The BBC’s decision to include Tyson Fury in the SPOTY short list has caused no small amount of controversy considering some of the views the new Heavyweight Champion of the World exposes. So how do we balance the desire to find out as much as possible about our sport stars and encourage them to be personalities off the field of play but still allow them to express their views even when they might offensive. Scandinavian Sevens With rugby sevens making its debut as an Olympic discipline in Rio we hear from one of the world’s most unlikely rugby nations as they target future Olympic glory, Norway.Radio Rules We all know it but just to enforce the point we speak to Adam Caroll-Smith author of “The Pictures are Better on the Radio: A Fan's Love Affair with Sport on the Wireless” mainly because he’s completely right ;)Sporting Witness… Bids farewell to East German Football. In 1990, the East German football team played their last ever match on the same day that the country was formally dissolved. Only 14 players turned up for the international against Belgium in Brussels, but the team went out on a high with a two-nil victory. Uwe Rösler played in that game as football behind the Iron Curtain ended Photo: Mothers Ana Paula de Oliveira and Terezinha Maria de Jesus wearing t-shirts with images of their sons, both shot dead by police in Rio Credit: Marie-Anne Photography
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