Friday, January 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM – KHSU Homepage Segment: 2017
Join Doc and host Danielle Orr for for their monthly feature on great athletes and sport from the Americas and Caribbean and their connection to popular culture and politics.
This week we’ll kick off a look at what is in store for 2017 – World Cup news, and an examination of one Cuba’s national athletic treasures, Javier Sotomayor, the only high-jumper ever to clear 8 feet, but found guilty of steroid/doping use that has implications not only for state sponsored sports programs like that in Russia (also implicated in massive state-sponsored doping scandal), but also for the world of sport in the United States and across the globe from youth sports in small communities to professional sports.
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