Menu
Sign In Pricing Add Podcast
Podcast Image

Throughline

Olympics: Behind The Five Rings

Thu, 22 Jul 2021

Description

The Olympics originated in Ancient Greece, and were resurrected in the 1890's after a 1,500 year ban. Since then, the International Olympic Committee has been behind every Olympic Games. In this episode, we explore the story of how the IOC turned the Olympics into a huge commercial success and whether the cities that host the games end up winning or losing.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Audio
Featured in this Episode

No persons identified in this episode.

Transcription
Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.