Emily Kwong

That's a step in the right direction, but maybe the sport needs to change.

Peter McCarthy says we could attach sensors on the helmets.

That would allow us to know the G-force exposure of these athletes.

We've seen again and again in these Games A that athletes will happily compete injured if glory or money or fame or their lifelong dream is on the line.

So unless there's some kind of regulatory change or culture change within the sliding sports, Sledhead is just going to continue.

Yes, that's the degenerative brain disease.

It's different than what we're talking about, but it's the same kind of internal recognition within the sport that is what drew my attention to this story and I think these scientists to this very under-researched topic.

Sled Head.

Thank you so much.

From NPR, I'm Emily Kwong.

I want to play you a phone call.

This is from January 2021, when President Trump was contesting Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.

In this call, President Trump is speaking with Republican Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's Secretary of State, and he tells him to re-evaluate the 2020 election results in his state.

This call was a big deal.

It was cited in Trump's impeachment that year and a central piece of evidence in a now-defunct criminal prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia.

Raffensperger refused, by the way.

But the call is important for another reason.

The president had to ask an election official to launch an investigation in his state.

He couldn't order them to.

States have the sole power to administer elections.