NEW PODCASTS: Olympics/Canada + Mailbag

#351: Daddy Lessons

Since we last spoke, the entire Olympic tennis tournament and the Canadian Open came and went. Our coverage isn’t comprehensive but more of a riff on the most interesting bits to us. We devote a good chunk of time to the tennis world’s incursions into the “gender controversy” involving Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif, including ugly, often defamatory statements by tennis legends and one current player (the latter being the only one to retract). We bounce over to Canada for some disjointed thoughts on the National Bank Open and finally touch on the end of an era, the dissolution of the stormy Stefanos-Apostolos working relationship.   
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01:15 The Jamaican Olympic tragedy
11:00 Tennis at the Olympics: Novak, Zheng, Nadalcaraz 
23:00 The myth of the badly behaved American trio (it's not a trio)
33:25 Andy Murray’s last dance
34:54 Tennis covers itself in shame during the Imane Khelif “gender controversy”
51:35 Policing women’s bodies is not liberation, it’s more of the same
56:25 Random Canadian Open thoughts 
67:30 Shapovalov defaulted
​70:35 Stef and Dad break up
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#352: Pon De Replay - Mailbag

We asked for questions and you sent us so many great ones, many of which cover some of the major topics o’ the day, including the recent rule enforcement controversies and the groundswell of support for video replay. (Basically, video replay needs to happen and it will happen, but it won’t fix everything!) Beyond just the topical, we've got Olympics memories, favorite cake, a few great Coco questions, and the contradiction of having fewer and fewer opinions in a hot take-driven medium. Let’s have some fun before the US Open gets underway next week!

01:30 Which non-Slam event would you have liked to attend? 
06:30 Jamaican sprinting and our all-time dream 4x100 relay team
12:20 “What is the most objectively polarizing tennis topic that you have zero opinion on?”
20:25 Video replay: yes, we need it but it won’t fix everything
28:20 The FAA-Draper incident that launched a thousand opinions
38:40 Cleansing the palate from the above question … Favorite cake and favorite episodes (of our own)
42:00 The WTA matching ATP’s prize money: a moving target?
48:00 Toronto vs Cincinnati
52:00 “Coco crisis” or just alarmism?
62:05 WAGs and HABs
​67:00 Favorite Olympics moments
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