Amy Goodman
@DemocracyNow·3.2M subscribers·19.4K videos
The dark side of the Olympics
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February 9, 2026
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February 9, 2026
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1:31Now PlayingRecent Olympic reforms are mostly "cosmetic," says author Jules Boykoff, who explains why cities are increasingly saying no to hosting the Games. "They don't get at the core elements that really plague the Olympic Games, and that's overspending, that's the intensification of militarized policing, that's greenwashing, that's corruption, that's the displacement of local populations."
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