Olympic games washout

And I feel this very keenly, especially about Black women, who symbolically carry so much at the Olympic stages and have historically.

Naomi Osaka, of course lit the torch—she was the last torchbearer in Japan, the darling of the games. Schuman: All of these women athletes, and especially these incredible Black women athletes, they have this voracious fan base, but the fan base, it brings support, but oftentimes it also brings expectation and this sense of entitlement. And so when you talk, Rebecca, about what happens to these Olympic sports, I think that this is really the point, right?

What if we supported gymnastics in various ways that made the Olympics more like a Slam that Naomi can pull out of it because she has other options. But this is going to require big ideas and people in power to stop prioritizing money. If profit is not the end goal, does it become easier to think about ideas like Mina Kimes just offered, like the Olympic Island—what if we built an apparatus and every four years, a host nation just was in charge of like planning the party there, and we stopped displacing people.

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