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FEATURING JULES BOYKOFF - Ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics in late July hotels and airlines in the French capital are ironically seeing plummeting sales as tourists avoid the predictable frenzy. The Olympics, held every four years, were last scheduled to be held in the early months of the global COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo before being postponed by a year. Four years hence, they will arrive in Los Angeles, where this program is produced. Some critics, such as Jules Boykoff, have taken the long view in asking “What are the Olympics for?”

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