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Source: WYNC "On the Media"

Roundup

3-30-08

Olympics history rife with politics, protest [audio 7min]

Despite the modern Olympics rhetoric about peace through sport, its history is rife with politics and protest. Olympic historian David Wallechinsky explains how the Games became a contest for attention.

Read entire article at WYNC "On the Media"