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EPISODE · Oct 20, 2022 · 28 MIN

The Politicized Olympics of the 1980s

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The Soviets and Americans both hosted the Olympics in the 1980s.  Matt Andrews explains that the fraught political situation of the time spilled into the Games, including boycott threats and fallout from a shot-down commercial airplane. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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