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Christine Brennan

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first: 2017-12-23
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“Oh, yeah, Jerry Sandusky in the Penn State story. Oh, and in fact, certainly there have been figure skating coaches over the years. You would not have known their names. I can think of one man in particular who was in jail, may still be in jail because of molesting boys. And the most recent...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, absolutely. Which we started talking about. Right. And at the college level, you saw the Obama administration give strong guidance to universities to use Title IX, not the sports part of Title IX, but the part about equal treatment for both genders in federally funded universities, high schools. And that's one of the ways that they've been working on obviously the sexual assault component.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not in figure skin, I guess. Okay, last topic, and then we're going to talk a little bit more about what people should be watching for in the Olympics. First, let's get to the issues around sexual harassment because it's in gymnastics, figure skating, and Title IX. They're linked together and not linked together, but it's the same topic of how women are treated in the sports arena. Oh, absolutely. Which we started talking about.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, oh no. And the Winter Olympics are much smaller. And frankly, it's a lot of guys named Sven who are snowboarding. And so you just have a different crowd. The world goes to the summer games. The world does not go to the winter games.”
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“Right, it would be that. What else? You could see it with some of the pushing. Because again, the bigger muscles to jump into that.”
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“Well, certainly endurance sports, so you could have all kinds of blood doping going on, say, in cross-country schemes, most of those long races. And we've seen that over the years, certainly. And not just the Russians. Others have done that too. You can see some amphetamines and some kind of other nonsense and shenanigans going on in gymnastics and figure skating. Right. You know, those kinds of things. You wouldn't bulk up with muscle mass.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Get to do it, and the runners might. And so now for Winter Olympics, it's figure skating. Figure skating, yeah. And Luge and Boswell. That's why you have been here. I'll straighten you on a little bit. Yeah, and oh, and we're...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I would love it if they kick them all out. I cannot see it. I think they're going to do the piecemeal approach that they did with Rio. Again, they'll throw it back to the sports. And again, that means that athletes who should.”
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“Oh, no, no, of course, yes, absolutely, because they did throw the book at Lance Armstrong. They did kick him out. They took his medals. Oh, yeah, the drug police just got rid of Lance Armstrong. No, the U.S., and it's not just the U.S., it's Germany, it's England, it's Australia, it's Japan, it's about 20 of these national anti-doping agencies, and they came out in the Paralympics. They've already kicked Russia out of Rio, and they're now going to kick Russia, the Paralympians out of So what is your guess?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cooperation with their national federation. What the Russians did would be the equivalent if we'd head in the United States during Barack Obama's time. It would be the equivalent of probably Barack Obama knowing, but certainly the FBI director knowing, the CIA knowing, the U.S. Olympic Committee all in cahoots with the U.S. anti-doping agency, probably members of Congress, all of them state-sponsored doping. That's how bad Russia did. And the only way you stop this is you kick them out. You take them away from the one thing they want. If you don't do it, we're going to be talking about it 2020 going into the choking.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When Lance Armstrong and Marian Jones and all those other scoundrels called. That is a great word that needs to come back more, right? It's an old world. It's like our parents' word. Soundrel. Yes. So when they all were cheating and doing what they did and got caught, they were doing it in defiance of their national Olympic committee, the US Olympic Committee and US anti-doping. They were in defiance of that. When all these Russians were cheating, they were doing it in compliance and cooperation.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, those who are angry at the Americans, they're out there, how dare you tell Russia what to do when you gave us Lance Armstrong. Here's the difference”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, exactly. In some ways, though, they give us their topics, but we get sick of these after a while. Yeah. And I know there's people out there saying, well, wait a minute, don't Americans cheat too. And I want to make this point because I think it's essential for the next cocktail party conversation for you or anyone else about what the difference is. The country that gave the world Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones, among others, is, of course, the good old US of A.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But basically, you could say that the International Olympic Committee remembers that. And are they going to toss that man out? I don't want to say it's a bribe, but it's basically the quid pro quo that, okay, you did this for us. And so Putin is going to remind every single one of them, look what I gave you in 2014. How dare you kick out my country in 2018. He's already talked about that. He's got an election coming in a few months. He said,”
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“Even if they're doped out? Also Putin. I mean, keep mutton. Yeah. You know, Putin basically is a refrain, is the answer for almost anything right now. Putin in 2014, well, before then, but he promised to give the Winter Olympics and put them on. He spent $51 billion, the most money that has ever been spent to put on an Olympics, to create an entire city. This is in Sochi 2014. It was actually a town called Adler.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About one third of the entire delegation of Russia was not in Rio. Two thirds did make it. And you saw all kinds of controversy, especially swimming where you have now athletes who've cheated, now are there. And this one young woman, Fimova Fimova, she's wagging her finger and then the American Lily King wags back. And King makes a statement and everyone's back about, oh, poor sports. Well, none of this would have happened if the International Olympic Committee, if the adults in the room. So are they going to actually done something? They should, I don't think they will. I think they're going to.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So as we speak, there's going to be IOC International Olympic Committee meetings in another week or two, and they are going to make that decision, they say, on whether they will allow Russia to compete in the 2018 Pyong-Chung Olympic Games in February. This is exactly for those who are saying, wait a minute, haven't I heard this before? Yes, you have. The exact same thing that happened going into the Rio Olympics, the Summer Games. And they were allowed, right? They were allowed. What the IOC did, instead of making a decision, its president, Thomas Bach, could have done a major, major statement for clean sport. He's new as the president from Germany. Thomas Bach instead punted and basically said, I'll just send it back to the federations for these individual sports. You guys make the decision. Horrific mistake, in my humble opinion. What happened then was International Trek and Field said, no Russians. So for one or two that were able to prove their innocence, the entire delegation, Russian delegation, was not in track and field. Great, great thing. But all in all, Karen, just...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they didn't get the medals. And if they give them, occasionally they do, return medals and they take away a gold or something and then they give it to the right person. They give it to them. Well, it comes in a FedEx box into their home and they open it up in their foyer.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They've won the old mother. There's a sneaky factor is high. I mean, the New York Times did great reporting on this, and I'm sure a lot of your listeners know this, but this was this cloak and dagger system to actually change urine with a hole in the wall to bring the urine bottle in, the urine specimen in, that then would be clean so that a cheating athlete could get away and get a clean drug test and then keep their metal. So there are people out there to this day from not just the US, but I mean, all kinds of countries, Japan, wherever, I don't know that, but we just know for a fact that they exist. Who came in fourth or fifth? Who should have been second or third?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“White kids. But I think And I think Soccer or whatever, tennis or golf or something like that. So talk a little bit about some of the, from the Olympic issues, joping. Where are we with that? Going into these Olympics, where's the state of play around that? Yeah.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it won't all, I mean, you'll still have some presumably white kids, but I think it's going to be the way out for those kids, just the way boxing is. And I think, again, you're going to lose all of those lower middle class suburban white kids and also African American kids whose mom and dad say, uh-uh. You know, you're going to play another sport.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It does. And if you, but yes, I would think that anything you could use technologically to help these guys because this is a horrifying story. And it is, frankly, I think this issue is turning people off more than the flag thing. Absolutely. 100%. And I think we're going to see football look like boxing much more either urban. That's a really good point. Urban poor or disadvantaged, rural poor.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'm not sure Robots are playing at some point. Yeah. I mean, I would see more, I mean, I think anything's possible moving forward over 40, 50 years, but these helmets that could actually register the hits, there's so much more they could do. And frankly, it's kind of appalling that they haven't done more. Right, they will.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like out in the outfield, and there's nothing coming out his way, and they're sitting down. He was a good hitter. But anyway, it's interesting how we look at that. So do you imagine there's any technological solutions? I'm not joking about robot. Well, I'm not sure. There's a movie with Hugh Jackman where that was the case.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then the kids outfield, and there's nothing coming out his way, and they're sitting down. He was a good hitter. But anyways”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Maybe even baseball because you can certainly get plunked by a baseball, but it is so dull. And that's the problem for kids. He's a very good baseball player, but I couldn't sit there. He used to play at Treasure Island and I would be freezing and long until I remember sitting.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think it makes sense. And I think maybe golf and tennis will have a resurgence, maybe even baseball. Because you can certainly get plunked by a baseball. But it is so dull. And that's the problem for kids.”
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“For sure, and I think what's going to happen is where we have seen the suburban kids like Tom Brady or John Elway or some of those great names Peyton Manning. We've seen their families endorse the game and want their boys to play it. You're not going to see that anymore. You're already seeing that suburban area is talking about they had to shrink.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And in fact, I really don't cover, I love the issues. I love talking about the issues with you, doing all stuff on TV, whatever. I don't cover games the way I used to. It's hard to watch. And if you've ever been on the sideline, which will bring us down on the way to the locker room, the speed, the force with which they hit, the size, the sounds are extraordinary. TV doesn't do it justice. And you cringe every time. I think football, first of all, football's not going. Anyone who says, oh, I don't lose my football. You're not going to lose your football. It's still around. College football, people love it, obviously. Different game. Most of those guys are not going to go pro vast majority. Still injuries, still issues for sure, but NCT, without a doubt. But you've got everyone in the pipeline. So football's not going away 10 or 15 years from now because you got little kids in the pipeline.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You'll be covering robot players. Let's hope I see that day. Yes, of robots. Yeah, you know, there's a great question whether the NFL will exist, whether we'll have football in, say, 50 years. I've asked Roger Goodelli a question. He said, of course, of course. We had him at Northwestern for an event. And I asked, of course, we asked to have questions of him all the time. He said, yeah, you'll still have the NFL back. What does it look like?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And while the national anthem goes on, other sports, that happens too. And think about the national anthem. This notion that we're all standing at attention during the national anthem, next time you're at a game, anyone who's listening to us, anyone, next time people are running in from the parking lot, people are in the bathroom. People are in line for nachos. Are you kidding me? They're talking to their friend. This idea that this is the sacred moment, it's ridiculous.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was the last one. Right. So I wrote a column a month or so ago that maybe they should. In the past, the players would just stay in the locker room.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's certainly going to be something going on with the NFL, but it's our past national pastime, way past baseball on that. But I do think one of the things the players are doing is they've really wanted to start to focus on the community and doing some good work. They've had meetings. And I think that the end result, Donald Trump, wanting to make it stop and wanting to divide people actually probably through these players and the owners and the management of the NFL into much more of a call for action to do things within the community. There might actually be a good result to something, obviously, that Trump started that was so horrendous. Yeah.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Always done that. He has never said they should stand. He said he's never said they must stand. He said they should stand. So when Trump was out there with this background noise, oh, they're changing. No, they did not. Roger Goodell and the owners and the players basically united for a few weeks against Trump. And that was fascinating to see. And now the story.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. The owners were, you know, obviously the perception then quickly, as hundreds and hundreds of athletes protested against Trump that week, which was so predictable. You knew they were going to do that. There was then the sense that is this costing, is our TV ratings down? And Trump tweeted that was the third week of the season care, and Trump tweeted, oh, TV ratings are down. Well, shocking Donald Trump tweet was wrong. TV ratings actually went up for that third week. So he had it wrong. Nonetheless, the perception was there. And yes, ratings are down. As you know, ratings are down for everything. Right. Nothing. It used to be three channels and everyone watched Mary Taylor more. This doesn't happen anymore. So this is not news. But nonetheless, Trump is taking this to, again, divide the nation. So yes, owners understandably, some of them were very concerned about this, but a fascinating turn of events. Roger Goodell, who people want to hang by his fingernails for a million things, I think handled this beautifully. He threaded the needle. He wanted to make sure he understood his player, 75% African American.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that story played out in 2016, played out a little in 2017 because Kaepernick then left the 49ers and was not signed by another team. And that's pretty amazing when you think of 32 teams that, yes, you can understand that some of them might not want a guy who took a team to do his Super Bowl a few years ago for San Francisco. But all of these teams, you know, so throw that in the mix. But the story had died. It was waning and dead. I had written one column about it over four or five months. And then Trump goes down to Alabama for that political speech for Luther Strange and the whole thing that now Worlds Glide with Roy Moore. And then says that terrible thing, that SOBs, I'd fire those SOBs and just gins up the whole thing for racial purposes to divide the nation as only Donald Trump apparently can. Wow, it explodes. And”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's kneeling. Right. And so when people are out there, and there are many of them who are furious at him, well, consider that it was a green beret who told them that. Meanwhile, just as a little aside, Colin Kaepernick also decides, he says, I'm going to give a million dollars to these causes because so many people are wondering, well, okay, other than doing taking a knee, what the heck are you doing? Well, he gave a million dollars over the course of a year to all these causes. So especially to help young men in inner cities and urban environment, et cetera. So the guys kind of walk the walk. Anyway.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, that story had basically died. It was a little glowing ember about to go out in late September. Most people had forgotten about Colin Kaepernick. He wasn't speaking out. And of course, Kaepernick's the one who started this a full year ago, August of 2016. The only stage. Yeah, he started to sit. And then at Green Beret, he had a conversation with a Green Beret. And the Green Beret said, well, if you're going to have a protest, and by the way, this is social injustice, police brutality, those kinds of issues, the way police or an African-American young males are dealing with each other, those issues that everyone, I think, knows about. So that was Kaepernick's point. It wasn't about the flag. Right about the troops. It was about that. So when you talk to the Green Beret, he said, well, if you're going to do that, don't sit Neil. Much more respectful than Neil and do that. So that's why Colin Keeperdick knelt, which is...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, he has. And more. Right. And so, right. I mean, you just can't make this stuff up. And it was not good for the country, clearly, to have the president focused on a sports father. But here we are.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it has become this kind of international, certainly national conversation at the crossroads. You know, where sports and culture or even sports and politics, you know, when Donald Trump is tweeting as he has. Now he's moved on.”
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“Father-daughter memoir called Best Seat in the House about my dad. My mom passed away in 02, my dad in 03. But thankfully, I wrote the proposal before he died, so he got a chance to see 10,000 words of it. And I said, dad, there'll be 90,000 more just like it. Oh, wow. And that was with Lisa Drew as well. So really a labor of love. But the hardest thing I've ever done, but the best thing I've ever done. And that book, I'm still signing it. I do a lot of speaking now around the country. And I do sign those books a lot for moms and dads or dads and daughters. All right.”
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“The height of popularity for the sport. And I've talked about Peggy Fleming and everyone in there, Debbie Thomas, et cetera. And actually the HIV AIDS issue, because no one had addressed the tragic loss of life among the men, skaters, choreographers, coaches in the 90s, you know, before people really focusing on this. as they should have obviously. So that book took off, became a bestseller. I leave the post, get another book deal, and follow the skaters through Nalgono in 1998. So I became known as this figure skating person when, of course, I played every sport. I was a six sport athlete in high school. I did not skate. No, no, I'm basketball, volleyball, softball, which I could field hockey, etc. So, I mean, I skated just, you know, tooling around, but no, no skating at all. But it was just so rich, so textured. You've got judges. I started interviewing judges. Really, let's find out about these people, all the East-West. I mean, you had everything. Skating's out at all. Skating. Yeah, so that was skating. And then I...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Margaret Robbie. Itany, it was coming out right. In fact, I certainly will be writing about it. When I said Tanya's an idiot, I mean, she just did the dumbest things forgot her skateguards, got jet lagged, chain smoking asthmatic. Yeah, you know, you can't make up these adjectives. But also great talent who thought she was getting screwed when in fact she made it to two Olympic teams and then basically sabotaged herself. covering that then TV ratings went through the roof 48.5 ratings sixth highest rated show Kara in television history and there never been a book a journalistic look at figure skating so Lisa Drew gets in touch with me so that Tracy Austin book leads to that relationship and then she said well we're salivating for the idea of a figure skating book so I took a leave of absence from the post wrote that book it's called Inside Edge became a bestseller and I knew it could take off because women buy books you know you figure if yeah”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, they were skating rivals. Yes, they were. And it was a revelation to people that women who looked gorgeous could also be competitive. Right. Maybe just a little sex. A little too competitive. Yes. Although the only serious journalist who'd ever say that Tanya Harding changed my life. But she did. So thank you, Tanya, wherever you are, you idiot. You know, she just made mistakes. Movie.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, and great point. Swingy hair. Right. Well, she was a little kid. Yeah, she was. And one too had back problems and now as a commentator and doing great. You know, she's fantastic. So, but doing that, then entree into the world of publishing. And then Lisa Drew, one of the great book editors, was the editor of that book. She goes to Scribner. And so now you move ahead a few years. And Tanya Nancy happens. She can certainly talk more about it in a few weeks. Yeah, the movies happen. The movie's coming out. Yeah. And I'm covering every minute of that from the attack in January, January 6th, 1994, all the way through.”
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“Which was an entree. And there are any authors out there or young people want to be authors to get your foot in the door for me. That was it. I said, God, I want to write books. And here's this book that, I mean, I like Tracy very much, and it was fun to write on it. Tennis player. Yeah. Exactly. Two-time U.S. Open Champion, one of the very young tennis players. A lot of...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Several. Yes, I have. A couple early ones that are not worth mentioning, but the big ones. What are they? Okay. The miracle of Miami about the Miami hurricanes winning the 83, you got to put about seven or eight of them together to see it on this bookshelf. But nonetheless, I did it in a week, a quick book on the season that Miami Hurricanes. And then Tracy Austin's autobiography. I wrote with, she wrote with me.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“the Olympics in the next section. When I did it, right? I went left in 96. I had about a year or so of just working on books, and then USA Today came to me and asked me, would I be their national sports columnist? And I said, yes.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In a row. Haven't missed one since LA in 84. Wow. Winter and summer. And it is still, I'm still that kid who just cannot believe I'm going to one Olympics. And I really, I know that probably sounds a little Pollyanna-ish, but it is the way I live. I just am appreciative of every second and every moment I have doing this. I mean, as a kid growing up, I would have hoped to go to one Olympics as a fan. Right.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You want to talk about the thing. Right, right. So, but eight o'clock. So let's say I got home at 8 15. Let's say I met people after work for a little bit. I got home at 8.15. I miss those 15 minutes. They were gone forever. There was no VHSing, DVRing, you know, any of this stuff. It was gone forever. That would be Bruce Jenner, obviously, now Caitlin Jenner. That would be, you know, there's so many things going on with those Montreal Olympics, Nadia Comanich, et cetera. And so, yes, it was just riveting to me. And then the thing that it just literally eight years later, I'm at the opening signals of the Olympics. And I've never, so I'm now gearing up for my 18th Olympics in a row.”
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