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PTFO - Match-Fixing, the Oligarch and the Ivy League: Inside the Most Corrupt Sport at the Olympics

2024/7/9
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Pablo Torre: 本节目调查了美国奥运击剑队中存在的潜在的比赛操纵和裁判腐败问题，以及这些问题与国际奥委会和俄罗斯寡头阿利舍尔·乌斯马诺夫之间的联系。节目中采访了多位运动员、教练和裁判，揭露了花剑击剑运动中存在的系统性腐败问题，包括裁判受贿、操纵比赛结果等。 Andrew Fishel: 作为世界级的花剑击剑运动员、教练和裁判，Andrew Fishel亲身经历并揭露了花剑击剑运动中存在的严重腐败问题。他指出，由于花剑击剑规则的模糊性，裁判拥有极大的权力，容易被操纵。此外，裁判和教练角色的冲突也加剧了腐败问题。他提供了具体的案例，例如运动员Mitchell Saron的比赛结果可能受到了裁判Vasyl Malenchev的操纵。 Markus Schulz: Markus Schulz是一位在德国长大的花剑击剑裁判，他揭露了俄罗斯寡头阿利舍尔·乌斯马诺夫对国际击剑联合会的影响力，以及由此导致的腐败问题。他本人也曾受到贿赂的诱惑，并亲身经历了国际击剑联合会中存在的系统性腐败问题。他指出，乌斯马诺夫上任后，国际击剑联合会出现了严重的腐败问题，包括贿赂裁判，许多裁判为了金钱而操纵比赛结果。 Pablo Torre: 本节目调查了美国奥运击剑队中存在的潜在的比赛操纵和裁判腐败问题，以及这些问题与国际奥委会和俄罗斯寡头阿利舍尔·乌斯马诺夫之间的联系。节目中采访了多位运动员、教练和裁判，揭露了花剑击剑运动中存在的系统性腐败问题，包括裁判受贿、操纵比赛结果等。

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The episode introduces Mitchell Saron, a Harvard-educated Filipino-American saber fencer who became a target of corruption in the sport due to his success and background.

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We tumble down the rabbithole of the global match-fixing scandal that’s quietly tearing apart the U.S. Olympic fencing team, ahead of their trip to Paris this month. And we investigate how it all connects to a spiraling refereeing crisis that takes us from Harvard and Princeton to the very top of the International Olympic Committee — and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Where one of the world’s 100 richest people, Alisher Usmanov, has allegedly exported a culture of bribery and corruption that’s scared pretty much everybody in sabre fencing away from talking, on the record. Until now.

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