Sport in the Cold War Podcast - Olympics History

As the 2016 Olympic Games draw to a close in Rio, the Wilson Center's Sport in the Cold War podcast looks back on Olympics history. Featuing interviews with leading sport historians, including:

• Tim Naftali on the influence of superpower politics on international sport during the Cold War; 
• Andrew D. Morris on Mainland China and Taiwan's competion for recognition as the true "China" at sport events;
• Mikhail Yu. Prozumenshchikov on the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games and international boycott;
• Thomas M. Hunt on the long history of the use performance-enhancing drugs at the Olympics; 
• and more!

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/sport-the-cold-war-olympics-retrospective

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