By WNYC Studios
Published July 19, 2024 9:00am
To celebrate the imminent start of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France we have an episode originally reported in 2016. No matter what sport you play, the object of the game is to win. And that’s hard enough to do. But we found a match where four top athletes had to do the opposite in one of the most high profile matches of their careers. Thanks to a quirk in the tournament rules, their best shot at winning was … to lose.Â
This week, in honor of the 2024 Summer Olympics, we are rerunning a story from 2016 in which...