Thread by @NOlympicsLA

The great @Hogshead3Au on confronting Olympic abuse in a meaningful way:

"It's not the dictator. It's the dictatorship."

Translation: it's not one bad guy (Nassar, Blackmun), it's the entire Olympic system that lets atrocious practices thrive.

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@Hogshead3Au Here are some other stray thoughts from today's panels at #PTG2019...

@Hogshead3Au “We looked at cities who built NFL stadiums and found that they raised rents 8% and wages dropped 4%.”

-Brittany Scott

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@Hogshead3Au "The research has shown there are no Olympic legacies"

- Chrstian T. Jensen

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@Hogshead3Au We heard @tariqpanja discuss how journos covering narrow beats like sports/mega events (like the Olympics) practically forces them into access journalism, how, more broadly, PR has swallowed journalism — and why that's a crisis we have to confront across issues.

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@Hogshead3Au @tariqpanja We heard @federicodt talk about the grift associated with and the true purpose of the Buenos Aires Youth Games:

“It’s an event to do business... [mega events] are a crime organization that moves around the world."

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@Hogshead3Au @tariqpanja @federicodt Paraphrasing @geostadia: "There is a tradition of North Americans and Western Europians that looks toward the Global South as being some how more corrupt....The Olympics should not go anywhere. They should stop them." - @geostadia

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@Hogshead3Au @tariqpanja @federicodt @geostadia "Mega events are about neocolonial extraction from poorer countries [like the Global South] to colonial nations like Switzerland." - @geostadia

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