Battle of the Bulge: We Expose a Crotch Conspiracy Rocking the Olympics
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Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. We have a tool created to measure the crotch measurement of all the athletes, which we're doing before the jump and after the jump. Right after this ad.
I've been sort of like puzzling through what should be the first sort of collaboration that I do with The Times and The Athletic in my capacity as licensing partner of The Athletic Podcast Network and The New York Times Company. And I was like, let's get Matt Futterman Pulitzer Prize winner. Right. Nailed it. Forget about this small matter of the NFL playoffs that might be going on right now. Who cares about that? I was shocked to discover that the Olympics are around the corner, though. It snuck up on me, Matt. That's your life. It's not my life. Right. And I did think to myself, oh, we got a news peg here. Sneaks up on me a little bit, too. I mean, how many is this now? This is my 10th that I'll be on the ground for.
God. Yeah. I mean, your beat, if I can describe it at The Athletic, is a fun one. I know your byline because you're the guy who does sports scandals, especially around competitive advantage. I mean, you're an author as well who's covered that topic, generally speaking. And also, you do all these sports that I know f***ing nothing about. And that's useful. So thank you for being in studio with me. Well, thanks for having me. And I guess we got to, you know, get you on the tennis court a little more, get you on skis a little more, get you on snow. The skis and the snow. I mean, that is a big fascination that I have because I spent the last, you know, more than I've ever thought thinking about the Winter Olympics, which is full of scandal historically, by the way, to just like remind our audience here.
Russian doping in Sochi. That was 2014. And there was also, you know, the 15-year-old Russian doper in Beijing in 2022. And then, you know, like Tonya Harding and the pipe and various body parts have been very important to understand when it comes to the history of scandal and investigation in your world. I mean, Olympic sports are completely ridden with scandal from start to finish. It's certainly in the modern era. And it's hard to believe something... topping the Russian doping scandal of 2014, you know, where they actually, like, constructed the building with the goal of cheating. Well, the question fundamentally that my show is obsessed with is how to cheat. And the follow up question is how to catch the cheaters.
And the follow up question to that is why and how does this differ depending on who is cheating? And so the geopolitical lens of like who is cheating and what's their philosophy about it and what are they trying to get away with and what drives them and also what haunts them is why Russia is on one side of the spectrum. And this subject, today's episode, which involves, by the way, you know, we got a sophisticated scheme. We have an actual behind-the-curtain video that I can't wait for people to understand. We got confidential documents that I'm waving around recklessly already in my hand. It builds to something that can only be fairly described as crotch gait.
There are many ways to cheat in sports. You can cork a baseball bat to make it lighter, deflate a football to make it easier to grip. But how do you cheat in ski jumping? If you're the Norwegian team, you alter the suit.
Specifically in the crotch area. And they caught Team Norway red-handed. Yeah, below the belt. We'd like to say this is a family-family program, but there may be segments where, you know. It's a good trigger warning. Got to put the earmuffs on the small children, potentially. We're going downhill in a very different sense. Definitely.
So for people who may already be tuning out because they're like, wait a minute, you tricked us into hearing you talk about a sport that I personally, of course, had very little knowledge of until we started reporting the story with you. The sport, which is ski jumping, I need you to explain because when you watch ski jumping, Matt, what are you seeing as a spectator?
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