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13 statements about Olympics, every show
Subramanian: Amagi powers live broadcast infrastructure for NBC's Super Bowl and Olympics
“Today I'm proud to say that in the last five, six years, we run a Superbowl for them. We ran the Olympics for them with all the window picks. So we've become the backbone of this company in terms of all their live and linear play out systems today, for example…”
Hays: Super Bowl ad packages require buying Olympics inventory too
“The way the Superbowl buys work, they make you buy ads in the Olympics as well.”
Princess Reema: Early Saudi female Olympians trained in her home gym
“We took four women as wild cards to the Olympics. FYI at that time, no facilities for women in sports. So they actually, we ended up doing their bootcamp in my home. They trained in my home gym.”
Chris Ruder Predicts Roundnet Will Eventually Become an Olympic Sport
“Yeah, I absolutely think we will be recognized by the Olympics. I think there will be professional round net players, and we will be considered a legitimate sport.”
Shepard: IOC lacks independent tools to verify host nation sustainability commitments
“The IOC doesn't have the tools in place to check up on whether or not the Olympics hosts are meeting their commitments. There haven't really been independent checks carried out in a sort of consistent way.”
Ohno: The Olympics will never become decentralized or fan-controlled
“I mean, it's never gonna happen for the Olympics, right? That's such a centralized, controlled entity.”
Major sports leagues lacked COVID return-to-play playbooks in March 2020
“The dawning realization that there was no game plan to come back. Like whenever, you know, there has to be a game plan for this, right? I kept, I called everybody. You know, I'm a small league. We're very thinly resourced. So I'm calling the NBA. I'm calling p…”
Sidana: Winning in Venture Capital Resembles Competing for an Olympic Gold
“The analogy that I would make if you think about venture capital is like winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Let's say you want to run a hundred meters, and you're really good, and you come first in your school, and then you come first in your city, and then…”
Peters: Countries frequently see capital markets peak after hosting the Olympics
“It's not infrequent. That countries can kind of peak in terms of their capital markets once they get past the glow of the Olympics.”
Carpenter: FIS added Olympic snowboarding without consulting the sport's pioneers
“Well, FIS, which is a International Ski Federation, it's a Swiss, you know, whatever, governmental body, and they controlled the scene, and then they started having snowboard competitions when they just had, aside from their ski races, and we were wondering wh…”
Carpenter: Freestyle snowboarding venues at recent Olympics were dangerously sketchy
“The last two Olympics, the venues, for the freestyle stuff, which is what people care about, for the halfpipe and slopestyle, the venues have been really sketchy.”
Esports will never join the Olympics due to commercial ownership conflicts
“I actually don't think, like, the Olympics has never been about a commercial enterprise, and so if you think of the analog, right, there's not, like, if you had to pick a game, You're now endorsing someone's commercial enterprise.”
Chen: Washington Post and Toutiao used AI to write Olympic sports coverage
“During the last Olympics, two professional journalism outfits, one, the Washington Post, and then another, the Chinese news aggregator called Toutiao, both ran experiments where they had AIs write coverage about sporting events in the Olympics.”