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Olympic Industry Resistance

By redeye
Created Oct 22 2008 - 10:22pm
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October 19, 2008
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Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is an outspoken critic of what she calls the Olympic industry. We speak with her about her new book challenging Olympic propaganda.

The upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver was the focus of a Redeye special on October 18. From that show, we bring you a variety of different perspectives on the Olympics from debt to security to resistance.

We start our Olympic coverage with a conversation with Helen Jefferson Lenskyj. Lenskyj is the author of Inside the Olympic Industry and The Best Olympics Ever? Social Impacts of Sydney 2000. Her new book is Olympic Industry Resistance.

Part 1 of a 6-part series

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