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Sport in the Cold War

30 episodes

Sport history podcast exploring the Cold War-era of superpower politics and intense international competition.

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Pan African Games Lagos
Podcast
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African Friendship Games
16:38October 3, 2016
Southeast Asian Peninsular Games Closing Ceremony
Podcast
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Southeast Asian Games
11:56September 19, 2016
East German Figure Skaters
Podcast
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East German Soft Power
16:34September 7, 2016
Sport in the Cold War
Podcast
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Sport in the People's Republic of China
18:38September 6, 2016
Olympic Wrestling Match
Podcast
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Olympic "Professionals"
11:53August 19, 2016
Indonesian Stamp from Asian Games
Podcast
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Pan-Asian Games
17:02August 8, 2016
First World Youth Festival
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World Youth Festival
18:31July 29, 2016
Brezhnev in color
Podcast
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Brezhnev's Dream
18:18July 14, 2016
Team of Taiwan in Rome Olympics
Podcast
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A Clash of Two "Chinas"
20:02June 27, 2016
Soccer in Apartheid South Africa
Podcast
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Sport and Apartheid in South Africa
17:36June 14, 2016
Lev Yashin
Podcast
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The Black Spider
15:29June 1, 2016
Martina Navratilova
Podcast
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"The Girl That Got Away"
18:10May 16, 2016
1972 Summit Series Stamp
Podcast
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1972 Summit Series
26:44May 2, 2016
The Olympic Stadium in Rome
Podcast
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"War Minus the Shooting"
15:27April 4, 2016
Katarina Witt
Podcast
Cold War
"The Most Beautiful Face of Socialism"
18:03March 21, 2016
Stamp from 1959 Pan American Games
Podcast
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Pan American Games
14:41March 7, 2016
1950s Football game
Podcast
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Sport and Statecraft in the United States
17:29February 22, 2016
Muhammad Ali
Podcast
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Muhammad Ali
22:26February 8, 2016
"Marvelous" Mal Whitfield
Podcast
Cold War
"Marvelous" Mal Whitfield
20:19January 25, 2016
Tour de France 1952
Podcast
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France's "Sport Crisis"
15:39January 11, 2016
Cover of Krokodil magazine
Podcast
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Soviet Sport Satire
15:46December 28, 2015
Tbilisi Dinamo
Podcast
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Georgian Football
14:36December 14, 2015
Eusebio Flora
Podcast
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Eusébio
10:07December 5, 2015
Performance Enhancing Drugs
Podcast
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Performance-Enhancing Drugs
15:03November 10, 2015
Vladislav Tretiak
Podcast
History
"Real Men Play Hockey"
15:10November 2, 2015
Sport in the Cold War
Podcast
Society and Culture
Football and Religion in Italy
10:01October 20, 2015
Dynamo - Turbine Erfurt
Podcast
History
The Stasi's Football Team
15:24October 2, 2015
Ice Hockey
Podcast
US History
John F. Kennedy and Hockey
14:58October 1, 2015
Russian Rocky Stamp
Podcast
US History
The Cinematic Cold War
16:56September 29, 2015

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